Great, great night of writing
I was over in Seattle all of last week and didn’t get any work done on the book. Answer Guy is now here visiting at Casa McGee, but he called it a night early and I’ve been writing like a maniac.
Somehow I got stuck tonight on early December, 2002 — the Heart of America Tour that Bono did with DATA, and with the likes of Ashley Judd, Chris Tucker, and many others. When I began, there were two entries for that in the book — the day it started and the day it ended. Now, thanks to all kinds of research and a lot of article reading, I have full and complete entries for every day from November 30 (when Bono arrived in Nebraska) to November 9 (when he left for the Gangs of New York film premiere in NYC). At one point, I even busted out our Travel Atlas so I could figure out the exact order of all the stops they made at local diners, truck stops, high schools, etc. I’m more familiar with Iowa geography than ever!
All told, I went from two brief entries to almost four full pages of material. Sweet! I’m just waiting for some clarification on the last day or two from a friend who lives in Nashville, and I’ll be all done with the Heart of America Tour.
It’s been a great night of writing, and Answer Guy is sleeping like a baby in the other room.
Oh! Does anyone have any photos from the Heart of America Tour? If so, please contact me…..
Contact Catherine Falsani if you haven’t already. She was along for that tour and from reading her blog she’d probably love to help. Her blog is at http://falsani.blogspot.com/
She’s done several interviews with Bono too and he’s one of the ones she interviewed for her book “The God Factor” so you could get info about that too.
Dana