#WriteMotivation July Progress

I haven’t been making a lot of progress with my July goals for the Google + group Write Motivation, but not for lack of trying. Again, my main goals for July are:

 

1. Revise the 2nd short-story book as per the freelance edit.

 

2. Get a book cover made for the 2nd short-story book and pay the artist.

 

3. Get the Microsoft Word doc formatted into an eBook and pay the formatter.

 

The freelance edit is already done and I’ve paid the editor, that’s last month’s goal. When I first sat down to revise, I told myself I’d go through it twice and call it done. Then I began to realize that there are things the freelance editor missed, and I needed to edit the document twice after revising it twice. Well, I just completed the first edit after revising twice. I’m finding a lot of typos and many places where the changes aren’t uniform, so this is not overworking on my part. I hear that a lot, that one can edit too much. I don’t see how. No matter how many times I edit, it’s never perfect, and other authors’ published books have a few typos. It’s never perfect for anyone, really. One can’t edit a book enough, in my opinion.

 

In summary, I’m just going to focus on one thing at a time: first, the last edit; second, the cover; third, the formatting. I should be done with that second edit by the end of next week. That works, because the cover artist said she’d email me either in mid or late July. If I don’t hear from her by late July, I’ll email her.

 

Everything’s running on schedule.