I recently viewed a very late interview with Bergman where he was talking about writing on Fårö. He talked about how boring it was to actually write manuscripts, the work-books were fun, but the manuscripts dead boring. He could only work for three hours a day, always in the morning, sitting for 45 minutes and then taking a break.

That has stayed with me as I round the curb of fifty pages of the original, that's thirty pages in Word (before when I said thirty pages, that was of the original). Re-reading is the worst. I must start doing it in sections. The beginning seems fine, but I fear that I lose the thread later. The language doesn't sound real, and resists my attempts at getting it right.

Unfortunately I don't have Bergman's hard-fast schedule. But I do have enough to show a publisher, and fresh eyes are what I need now.