No Peeking
I have been working with AJ since she started writing seriously. I was there to encourage her to finish the first novel and I was the one sending her mails that said things like “send me another chapter or else…” But I must admit that the hardest part of being a manager is not peeking.
AJ has sent me treatments for all the stories in her head. A treatment is a brief summary of the whole plot and AJ’s include the twists, turns, and ending. This is why I can’t look at them. It’s important that they be stored somewhere other than on her own computer in case something happens to her machine.
So I save them, both on my computer and on a back-up CD. And I don’t peek. Even though I REALLY want to some days. Since I read as she writes, it’s important that I not know what is coming next. So, I live my life waiting for the next chapter of the story, unable to flip ahead and read the last page.
-Eli
