I did some thinking exercises this week, designed to improve my editing productivity. So far, I’ve made milk kefir, kombucha, kimchee and sauerkraut. I have been harvesting vegetables from the garden and batch-cooking with them for the freezer. I’ve been drying and processing herbs and flowers and making various brews and concoctions, filling teabags and empty capsules and researching, labelling, storing.
Obviously, I made the mistake of not specifying what kind of productive I wanted to be. The editing has barely been touched. But when I do sit and work through a chapter, it’s good work and I enjoy it. I want to do it every day, instead of being constantly sidetracked with other things to do.
Anyway, I think we’re on editing sweep number three? Maybe number four. I’m still finding mistakes, sneaky little slips of the finger, like a ‘so’ instead of a ‘do’. I’m still trying to improve flow and punctuation and – believe it or not (you might not, when you read it) – cutting out extraneous words.
I can write a chapter or two every day, no trouble. Writing, I get lost in the story and am excited myself, to see what will happen next. Editing is a different kind of “fun”, but still doable. It’s just slooooow.
I promise you, History Maps UI, VR and AI will be published, eventually. I just can’t say when.