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Chapter 44. Final edit.
The finish line of this final edit is in sight, now. Three more chapters to go. I’ve been struggling to honour my one-chapter-per-day commitment, because of wedding preparations. I’m getting married in…. *checks phone countdown app*… 66 days. And there is an immense amount of work to do, still, for that. Not least, because the…
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Chapter 27, book 1. Final edit.
My snail’s pace crawl through History Maps 1: User Interface reached chapter 27 this morning. Nearly two thirds of the way through. I have struggled with this final edit process for a variety of reasons: – It’s not my favourite book of the three I’ve written so far for this series; – I’ve got ADHD,…
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The final edit. Grindingly slow.
I seem to only be able to manage a chapter a day of this last edit, so painstakingly nit-picking it is. I have my headset on, listening to my previous recording of the chapter, while I read through it, my mouse pointer on the pause button. A surprising amount of syntax errors have snuck in…
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Stuck. A hole. Stuck in a hole and slowly climbing out.
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…
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Racing through book 3 draft audio
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…
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Book 3, audio draft. And a deadline.
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…
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Editing as I go
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…
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I think people have stopped reading and listening
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…
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A hard winter. A hard week.
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.…
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Two chapters a day. And: any resemblance, etc
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…