Done With Errors

Raceboy and Super Qwok Adventures should begin showing up live over the next couple of days at Amazon and Barnes and Noble.


The new proof looked good except…


I opened the book up to a paragraph randomly and began reading and found an error. Not a biggie. Just two transposed words. Obviously not big enough to distract me when I (or any of my other readers, for that matter) read the book a couple weeks ago. As I read further down, I noticed a second error where, during the rewriting process, I was choosing between two words and left both in accidentally instead of deleting the redundancy.


Oh, well. If I expect there to be no errors, I will be shocked and horrified to learn that there are. If I go knowingly into publication with errors, I will not be either shocked or horrified because I left them there as a sort of ward against other errors. Because I recognize that as a human, there will be imperfections despite my best efforts to purge them. And to continue to toil against such imperfections will lead to nothing except disappointment. And more waiting.


And I'm tired of waiting. Aren't you? Because now, officially, the wait is over.

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Published on January 31, 2012 22:35
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