October's Writing Progress
Late again... though as I write this, it's still October somewhere in the world...
My "writing" time this month has been entirely taken up with editing the audiobook of Escape Velocity. I've finished the editing, where I delete all the mistakes and close up the gaps. I'm now doing what I call the "proof listen" (by analogy with "proofread") where I listen to the edit and make sure everything's as I want it to be. I'm up to chapter 42, which is about four-fifths of the way through. Then I need to do the pickups, meaning to re-record the bits where I made a mistake and didn't notice when I was recording. I should be done with the book in the next week or two, then it can go off to the distributor, and I can get back to "writing writing"!
Last weekend, I was interviewed by an online radio station, Chat and Spin Radio. The replay is here: https://www.mixcloud.com/chatandspinr... I'm on for about five minutes at 1 hour 50, talking about the Dragonrider series. (This programme interviews lots of authors and musicians, so play the whole thing if you're looking for something new to read or listen to.)
I'll be interviewed again on the same station tomorrow (Saturday 2nd November) at 3pm UK time. Listen live at https://chatandspinradio.com or keep an eye on https://www.mixcloud.com/chatandspinr... for the replay, which should be available 24 hours after the broadcast.
My "writing" time this month has been entirely taken up with editing the audiobook of Escape Velocity. I've finished the editing, where I delete all the mistakes and close up the gaps. I'm now doing what I call the "proof listen" (by analogy with "proofread") where I listen to the edit and make sure everything's as I want it to be. I'm up to chapter 42, which is about four-fifths of the way through. Then I need to do the pickups, meaning to re-record the bits where I made a mistake and didn't notice when I was recording. I should be done with the book in the next week or two, then it can go off to the distributor, and I can get back to "writing writing"!
Last weekend, I was interviewed by an online radio station, Chat and Spin Radio. The replay is here: https://www.mixcloud.com/chatandspinr... I'm on for about five minutes at 1 hour 50, talking about the Dragonrider series. (This programme interviews lots of authors and musicians, so play the whole thing if you're looking for something new to read or listen to.)
I'll be interviewed again on the same station tomorrow (Saturday 2nd November) at 3pm UK time. Listen live at https://chatandspinradio.com or keep an eye on https://www.mixcloud.com/chatandspinr... for the replay, which should be available 24 hours after the broadcast.
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Nov 01, 2019 05:21PM
I forgot to add - the audiobook came in at about 11 hours 30 minutes. That might change during the proof listen, but probably not by more than a couple of minutes - some gaps between sentences and paragraphs are too short and others too long, so it usually averages out.
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Something else I forgot to mention (I'm not a morning person, OK?) is that our community TV channel did a feature on our writers' group, and I'm in it. I read a bit of
The Accidental Dragonrider
and talked about my writing process. You can watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwrkf... (I'm near the end, if you don't want to watch the whole thing.)
