How to deliver a manuscript on time

Help needed! Deadlines and the tools seeing me through

Hello! Hello!

If I could have found a typeface that looked as though I’d written “Hello!” with a shaky hand, I would have used it. I’m kind of a wreck these days … DEADLINE! The manuscript for my next book, which is still tentatively titled, KITCHEN CAKES DORIE'S ANYTIME CAKES, is due in a week! I’ve never missed a deadline. I’m not going to miss this one. But I’ve never been anything other than on edge leading up to delivery date (yes, the expression is “deliver the manuscript,” the same as deliver a baby) and I’m just as on edge this time as I was all 14 times before. You’d think that after more than 30 years of this, I would have figured it all out. But nope.