Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Book Progress Update
October 2007
For those few of you who actually read my public blog or the blog attached to the homepage for my book, I appreciate your patience and your dedication.
This book has taken longer than I anticipated, even for a first time out, but I've learned to be okay with that. I'm still working on the final copy edit, though we are most of the way through. After I do the corrections Stuart and I will have to go over the manuscript to make sure all the corrections fit and everything is still in place.
He just sent me Section 13-01 with a bunch of corrections and the final section is 16-09 or 16-10. I'm unsure because we've added a scene or two and that changes the numbering, but it gives you an idea of our progress to date.
I would say the time frame has changed because I'm now working with other people, but the truth is both Stuart and I had other things in our lives that needed taking care of. But with the arrival in my mailbox of the Harry and David catalog, we realized the winter holiday insanity is imminent, and we decided to focus on book work to help us avoid the insanity as much as possible.
I'm a Taoist and I don't know what Stuart's current affiliation is, but neither of us were ever big on the whole Christmas thing. I love that, for the second half of December, Erik and I are going to be on a boat off the coast of Peru and Argentina. Christianity is big down in South America but I'm still hoping the holiday stuff will be kept to a minimum.
Don't get me wrong. I love spending time with friends and family, and I love eating good food. It's just everything else I could do without. I'm especially glad I don't watch television during this time of year, (with the exception of a couple of downloaded shows from Apple TV, and those are commercial-free anyway.) The main thing I use our living room monitor for is watching a DVD every now and again.
The few good shows that are on get released on DVD and I don't care about watching them the moment they're first shown. I can wait for the DVD release, which I've noticed keeps happening faster and faster. I'd rather read, write, post to my online community, play my drums or walk my dog.
To me most television shows are a waste of time, and if even the few I really like disappeared tomorrow, it wouldn't hurt my feelings very much. From an artistic standpoint I think television is nearly dead medium. The few good shows that are on are surrounded by a cacophony of fear-inducing corporate news, useless blather about questionable celebrities, and mass consumption. As I said, a nearly dead artistic medium.
After I post this update I'm going to return to my corrections. Next update in about a month. Thanks for hanging in there. "Between the Hammer and the Anvil" will see the light of day. I promise that.
October 2007
For those few of you who actually read my public blog or the blog attached to the homepage for my book, I appreciate your patience and your dedication.
This book has taken longer than I anticipated, even for a first time out, but I've learned to be okay with that. I'm still working on the final copy edit, though we are most of the way through. After I do the corrections Stuart and I will have to go over the manuscript to make sure all the corrections fit and everything is still in place.
He just sent me Section 13-01 with a bunch of corrections and the final section is 16-09 or 16-10. I'm unsure because we've added a scene or two and that changes the numbering, but it gives you an idea of our progress to date.
I would say the time frame has changed because I'm now working with other people, but the truth is both Stuart and I had other things in our lives that needed taking care of. But with the arrival in my mailbox of the Harry and David catalog, we realized the winter holiday insanity is imminent, and we decided to focus on book work to help us avoid the insanity as much as possible.
I'm a Taoist and I don't know what Stuart's current affiliation is, but neither of us were ever big on the whole Christmas thing. I love that, for the second half of December, Erik and I are going to be on a boat off the coast of Peru and Argentina. Christianity is big down in South America but I'm still hoping the holiday stuff will be kept to a minimum.
Don't get me wrong. I love spending time with friends and family, and I love eating good food. It's just everything else I could do without. I'm especially glad I don't watch television during this time of year, (with the exception of a couple of downloaded shows from Apple TV, and those are commercial-free anyway.) The main thing I use our living room monitor for is watching a DVD every now and again.
The few good shows that are on get released on DVD and I don't care about watching them the moment they're first shown. I can wait for the DVD release, which I've noticed keeps happening faster and faster. I'd rather read, write, post to my online community, play my drums or walk my dog.
To me most television shows are a waste of time, and if even the few I really like disappeared tomorrow, it wouldn't hurt my feelings very much. From an artistic standpoint I think television is nearly dead medium. The few good shows that are on are surrounded by a cacophony of fear-inducing corporate news, useless blather about questionable celebrities, and mass consumption. As I said, a nearly dead artistic medium.
After I post this update I'm going to return to my corrections. Next update in about a month. Thanks for hanging in there. "Between the Hammer and the Anvil" will see the light of day. I promise that.
