Now with actual writing, too.
Previously:
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I think I have officially stalled as long as possible, made as many covers and I had in queue to make, and it's time to get back to work with words. I've still got the blue moon story and "The Room" re-writes to finish up before I go back to the serial story and try to finish that up. So this morning I read through blue moon twice, fixing a few more mistakes that slipped by me the first time, as well as shortening a few sentences here and there. I've got it down to 2845 words, which is, I think, about 100 less than when I started this morning.
The work on this story still amazes me, though, when I think back to how long the original version was for well over a decade, and I never could sell the damn thing. I was never that surprised when the rejections for it came in; I knew the story wasn't the best it could be, I just didn't know how to tell it properly. This latest version, though, is, I think, pretty cool and, unlike the previous version, not a word is wasted. At least, I don't think it is. But that's why I'm still working at it, getting it down to the bare essential minimum words. I'm almost there.
After that, I finished formatting the "Obsessive Compulsive Dismemberment" file for the chapbook version, which I had been letting slide for way too long and just avoiding working on. But that's done. It's a very short story, so I'm pairing it with "...fruit, unpunctured." and "Mr. Grin, the Glistener". And even with three stories in the book, it still only comes to 28 pages. They're all very short stories.
Yesterday after work I worked on a few more covers, but I don't think I'm ready to post those just yet. I will soon.
After blue moon and OCD this morning I did yet another version of the "Coming Down the Mountain" cover. It was one of the ones I worked on last night too, but I hadn't placed the back cover text properly and CreateSpace wouldn't let it through. So once more this morning, with feeling. I altered the texture of the photo and made it wrap around the cover, then changed the color of the fonts. If it doesn't look too pixellated in print, I think I'll like it. However, I liked how the "Epoch Winter" wraparound cover looked too until I saw the physical version. I could barely make out what the wraparound image was supposed to be, so I changed it back. Hopefully I won't have to mess with this one anymore, though:
http://www.cdennismoore.com/news-and-...
http://www.cdennismoore.com/news-and-...
I think I have officially stalled as long as possible, made as many covers and I had in queue to make, and it's time to get back to work with words. I've still got the blue moon story and "The Room" re-writes to finish up before I go back to the serial story and try to finish that up. So this morning I read through blue moon twice, fixing a few more mistakes that slipped by me the first time, as well as shortening a few sentences here and there. I've got it down to 2845 words, which is, I think, about 100 less than when I started this morning.
The work on this story still amazes me, though, when I think back to how long the original version was for well over a decade, and I never could sell the damn thing. I was never that surprised when the rejections for it came in; I knew the story wasn't the best it could be, I just didn't know how to tell it properly. This latest version, though, is, I think, pretty cool and, unlike the previous version, not a word is wasted. At least, I don't think it is. But that's why I'm still working at it, getting it down to the bare essential minimum words. I'm almost there.
After that, I finished formatting the "Obsessive Compulsive Dismemberment" file for the chapbook version, which I had been letting slide for way too long and just avoiding working on. But that's done. It's a very short story, so I'm pairing it with "...fruit, unpunctured." and "Mr. Grin, the Glistener". And even with three stories in the book, it still only comes to 28 pages. They're all very short stories.
Yesterday after work I worked on a few more covers, but I don't think I'm ready to post those just yet. I will soon.
After blue moon and OCD this morning I did yet another version of the "Coming Down the Mountain" cover. It was one of the ones I worked on last night too, but I hadn't placed the back cover text properly and CreateSpace wouldn't let it through. So once more this morning, with feeling. I altered the texture of the photo and made it wrap around the cover, then changed the color of the fonts. If it doesn't look too pixellated in print, I think I'll like it. However, I liked how the "Epoch Winter" wraparound cover looked too until I saw the physical version. I could barely make out what the wraparound image was supposed to be, so I changed it back. Hopefully I won't have to mess with this one anymore, though:
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