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I finished my draft audio recordings for all three books and then hit a block, or fell down a hole of paralysed inactivity. Not literally paralysed, but somehow unable to keep working on the books. I really needed to move quickly onto the next phase: the final edit, with headset on, listening, reading, editing. I…

I’ve just recorded 6 more chapters of book three and am up to chapter 30 now, way over halfway through the book. I’m up at 6am nowadays, trying to get as much recording as I can done, before other people need me for their things. Progress is fast and enjoyable. Book 3 is better than…

Can I get book 1 published, AND the Audible version recorded and also published, by July? I hope so, because, for financial reasons, that’s my deadline. You’d think I’d be focusing on doing just that, but no. What I’m actually doing is recording the draft audio version of book 3. Why? Because of how my…

Even though they no longer seem to be being listened to by my beta group, my voice recordings are still giving me a better perspective for editing than reading alone would. Simply reading the chapters out loud to myself strangely doesn’t seem to cut it. There is something about the accountability of recording them and…

I haven’t had much feedback from my beta group, recently. I’m actually feeling surprisingly okay about that, because the book is being published, whether they feedback or not. If my only reason for reading the chapters out loud and recording myself doing it was to elicit their feedback, then I might be more distressed by…

This is the winter of our high gas prices. So high, that ours isn’t on. I turned off the boiler when they announced doubling unit prices and haven’t turned it on again, since. Well, correction, I bit the bullet at Christmas when elderly relatives were visiting and turned it back off again when they’d gone.…

I’m not sure I’ve ever been so productive. I’m managing to record two chapters a day of History Maps Book 1: UI and upload them to my beta reading group. At least one – possibly two – of them are listening every day, too, almost keeping pace with me. This is a great incentive for…

One member of my reading group, who has only just started to read, has given me some perfect and specific editing tips. She also told me that another member, who was listening by audio, was really enjoying the book. He’s her partner, so she knows him well enough to have also been able to say,…

I’ve had feedback now (one complaint, to be precise) about the sound quality of my recordings, so I’ve sent this to the group: Just to say, I know the sound recording isn’t to a professional standard on these recordings and it’s not meant to be. I’m recording for two reasons. Firstly, because I’ve been told…

I’ve had some bits of feedback from my reading group, now. All good so far, which is nice, though I suspect they’re being gentle with me. Hoping for something more meaty but not too damning, eventually, when we get more into the story. Right now, it’s just wonderful to hear that some of them are…