Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! So a few weeks ago I’d finished again. Well, now I’ve started again. This is not editing hell. Exactly. But I have felt moved to fix some detail work. I decided to remove all sets of parentheses (there were three), and will give $15 to the first person …
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Fourteen blurbs and some physical procrastination
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! Fourteen versions and a few fragments later, I have something approaching a reasonable blurb for the book. It is not deliberately seeded with search optimization friendly phrases. I’ll look and see what can be ‘subtly’ added. Perhaps. I wonder, given the evolution of search engines, what the latest …
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The Inspiration of Dreams
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! Very late today, because I worked Monday and Tuesday, which is most unusual. I am a dreamer, I dream vividly. This week, before both of the aforementioned workdays, I played in multiple dreamscapes, some more obviously linked than others. The dreams I awoke from on Monday were so …
Finished Again. The to do list before publication begins.
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! Guess what? I’ve finished my book again! Yes folks, I completed my proofing read through today. I can’t lie, I changed the odd sentence here and there, and some physical descriptions for clarity. I still have a few notes to clarify, 14 to be specific, (been there before, …
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Lessons from the artistic evolution of others: Frank Miller’s Born Again
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! I’ve been doing some reading of comics again. Specifically some of Frank Miller’s work on Daredevil. I read Vol 1. of his work with Klaus Janson, and am now reading Born Again. Volume one of his Daredevil run, where he was not initially writing the stories, only illustrating, …
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Justified and Ancient
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! Notes from the week. Fallout Spoilers below in #2. I am back on track, faced my fear and read my manuscript again. I can totally sympathize with the writers of yesteryear who threw away or burned entire books after deciding them to be trash, but I think the …
Fighting off a body blow
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! Procrastination and doubt. I have written about doubt before, in a series I think. It was quite a long time ago. I thought I had compartmentalized my doubt: not exactly put it away, but perhaps contained it. I felt confident I had developed the tools and the knowledge …
Reading aloud to the Demon of Perfectionism
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! Okay, so the copy edit is complete. One more hill climbed, another mountain ahead. I have started the read aloud proofing pass, and am 5.5 to 7% of the way through that, depending on criteria chosen. No graphical representation employed. So far I have added and removed equal …
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Halo: Mystery Box Edition (And my books are on Sale – Buy them!)
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! 97% of copy edit complete. Two things this week. One, as of today both my books are on sale in the UK and USA, in the ebook edition anyway. Continue your recovery from St. Patrick’s day overindulgence by sitting down with a good book. That’s an order, soldier! …
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Obscure words and stones in shoes
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! Almost there! I am 91.6% or 93.2% of the way through the copy edit, depending on criteria used. Hopefully next weekend it will be done, and on to proofing. This week I discovered I used word in an unusual fashion. I used ‘bulled’ as a verb, to indicate …
Roderick T. Macdonald 