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June 11, 2024
A short controlled burst of Editing Hell
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! It was just a couple of things, honest. I have opened the door to editing hell. I was just checking where the eyes were, none glued to anything inappropriate in the text, as can sometimes happen. I checked because I was reminded of Don McNair’s book on Editor-proofing …
June 4, 2024
Why am I crying? Because I’m emotional!!
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! So a few weeks ago I’d finished again. Well, now I’ve started again. This is not editing hell. Exactly. But I have felt moved to fix some detail work. I decided to remove all sets of parentheses (there were three), and will give $15 to the first person …
May 28, 2024
Fourteen blurbs and some physical procrastination
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! Fourteen versions and a few fragments later, I have something approaching a reasonable blurb for the book. It is not deliberately seeded with search optimization friendly phrases. I’ll look and see what can be ‘subtly’ added. Perhaps. I wonder, given the evolution of search engines, what the latest …
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May 21, 2024
The Inspiration of Dreams
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! Very late today, because I worked Monday and Tuesday, which is most unusual. I am a dreamer, I dream vividly. This week, before both of the aforementioned workdays, I played in multiple dreamscapes, some more obviously linked than others. The dreams I awoke from on Monday were so …
May 14, 2024
Finished Again. The to do list before publication begins.
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! Guess what? I’ve finished my book again! Yes folks, I completed my proofing read through today. I can’t lie, I changed the odd sentence here and there, and some physical descriptions for clarity. I still have a few notes to clarify, 14 to be specific, (been there before, …
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May 7, 2024
Lessons from the artistic evolution of others: Frank Miller’s Born Again
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! I’ve been doing some reading of comics again. Specifically some of Frank Miller’s work on Daredevil. I read Vol 1. of his work with Klaus Janson, and am now reading Born Again. Volume one of his Daredevil run, where he was not initially writing the stories, only illustrating, …
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April 30, 2024
Finances and fitness: it’s not a sprint
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! This week finds me breaking out of one funk, and cognizant of another. First, I have been doing a close reading of the manuscript, and have been noticing the little things that need to be addressed: small fixes for flow. Read 90 pages today, found one misplaced ‘and’ …
April 23, 2024
Justified and Ancient
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! Notes from the week. Fallout Spoilers below in #2. And that is that. Will normal service resume next week? Stay tuned to find out! This blog brought to you by the KLF.
April 16, 2024
Fallout versus Halo: Mystery box deathmatch
Hello my friends and the occasional relative! These have been the weeks of late arrival in the blogosphere for me. I’ve put something out every Tuesday for a year and more now. Small potatoes for some. An achievement for others. As you all know, I have a Vast Global Reach™ (VGR), and I take that …
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April 9, 2024
I’ll think of a title later… (The Procrastinator’s Credo)
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! This has been a week either of failure, or of tremendously successful procrastination. I can’t lie, I have done not a thing on the book. I opened the file a few times and glanced at the legend ‘Chapter 1’, but then looked away. Why? Well, last week I …
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