Deadlines
One would think I could be all loosey-goosey about deadlines working for myself...but one would be wrong! Of course the big deadline that's shaping my summer is my upcoming lasic surgery that I wrote about in my last newsletter. I want to have my big, partially-done projects put to bed before I go under the laser. And I won't lie, having a few sales under my belt wouldn't hurt either!
So I've been all about getting Zero Hour ready for publication, in ebook and in paperback, and I've been running into complications left and right. (The epub that looks perfect on the iPod looks like shit on the Nook. La la la. At least the mobi works.) I will prevail. For today I focused on the print version, since printing, mailing and proof copies are involved and so it will lag after the e-release anyway, but hopefully will come very close. I had a mini-meltdown when the font I chose after much testing was not showing ellipses...oh god the cute design professor who told me about this font said it was robust, where the hell are the ellipses???...but then I ditched it from my computer and downloaded it from a different source, and lo, the ellipses existed. That was probably two hours. Of wanting to weep.
Periodically I think back to my days of working for someone else. I remember banging my head on the wall about things like this often. I had a very temperamental large-format printer. I hear my replacement opts to just not use it. But no, not me. I KNEW I could finesse it into doing what I wanted if I just agonized enough.
And the other deadline that's not really in my control is the research for Magic Mansion, (also spoken of in the newsletter above) which I've been putting off and putting off. I had Circus World on my calendar for a few weeks now and I blew myself off. But there's a magic show I need to see in the Dells that's only offering matinees at certain times, so I gots to get my butt in gear and go there. That'd be Monday--and if I've paid for something, I'm damn well showing up :D I have paid and I'm going.
I think by Circus World being there all the time, it's made itself blow-offable. Its performance schedule is only during the summer months, but still. Seriously, I wrote it down for May 23 and I never did it. Maybe I could do both in one day. Hm. That seems like a shame, like I'd absorb more if I made two trips.
So I've been all about getting Zero Hour ready for publication, in ebook and in paperback, and I've been running into complications left and right. (The epub that looks perfect on the iPod looks like shit on the Nook. La la la. At least the mobi works.) I will prevail. For today I focused on the print version, since printing, mailing and proof copies are involved and so it will lag after the e-release anyway, but hopefully will come very close. I had a mini-meltdown when the font I chose after much testing was not showing ellipses...oh god the cute design professor who told me about this font said it was robust, where the hell are the ellipses???...but then I ditched it from my computer and downloaded it from a different source, and lo, the ellipses existed. That was probably two hours. Of wanting to weep.
Periodically I think back to my days of working for someone else. I remember banging my head on the wall about things like this often. I had a very temperamental large-format printer. I hear my replacement opts to just not use it. But no, not me. I KNEW I could finesse it into doing what I wanted if I just agonized enough.
And the other deadline that's not really in my control is the research for Magic Mansion, (also spoken of in the newsletter above) which I've been putting off and putting off. I had Circus World on my calendar for a few weeks now and I blew myself off. But there's a magic show I need to see in the Dells that's only offering matinees at certain times, so I gots to get my butt in gear and go there. That'd be Monday--and if I've paid for something, I'm damn well showing up :D I have paid and I'm going.
I think by Circus World being there all the time, it's made itself blow-offable. Its performance schedule is only during the summer months, but still. Seriously, I wrote it down for May 23 and I never did it. Maybe I could do both in one day. Hm. That seems like a shame, like I'd absorb more if I made two trips.
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