After a great deal of thought and memory searching I think I came up with the "point of maximum joy" on the last Book Project. I think that point was achieved when I figured out the project was going to be a success. Success and joy came at the point when I knew that I had all the components partially assembled into the book that told the story I wanted to tell. That is also the time that I knew the only thing I had left to do on the project was a lot of work.
It's one of those contradictory things that the point of maximum joy occurs just before the realization that all there is left is a lot of hard work to make sure the project achieves the success you envision,
The point of maximum joy is also the most dangerous time of a project. It's that point at the end of joy and just before nothing but hard work. We fail to progress on the project because we want to hang on to the fun part of the project because no one wants to work, because work is not fun.
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