the GIANT : July 2008

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I made it! Back to editing. I didn’t make it off of the page I had left off with. It was hard to get back into that mindset, so I ended up skipping around a bit, reading other parts and making small corrections here and there.

I’m going to employ a new strategy and start digitizing the edits I have made so my wife can do her own edit of a clean and revised copy. I’m hoping she can give me some insight into the whole thing. Hopefully I’m not horribly off base with this whole thing. We shall see.

The 4 plus weeks away have been benefitial. I’ve realized that I need to twist around the story a bit. The book builds to a final even sort of moment at the end, but I don’t think I’ve done such a good job of selling it to the reader. I’m not sure if the average person would be son invested in the thing. I don’t want them to get there and say ’so what’.

Posted by Don Clark at 12:20 PM
Categories: Editing

Now there are Three

Three members of the family that is. My wife and I’s first child was born three weeks ago. I have purposely kept most personal events away from this. I don’t want it to become a personal blog. But the birth of my child will have a big impact on the GIANT. I haven’t touched the latest draft since her birth. There are certainly enough other things to keep me occupied.

At this point it would be very easy to put the thing down, forget about it for a few years. Afterall, I will most likely have to pay to publish the book. So why not forget about it for ten years or so. Wouldn’t that be a treat? What would I think of it then? I would probably have to start from scratch. So I must dig down even deeper to stay motivated to finish the work if this thing is going to see the possibility of an audience of more than one.

But the break hasn’t been all negative. I’ve been thinking of ways to better explain what is going on in the book. In hindsight, I think I left too much up to the reader. Left them to fill in TOO many holes. As a consequence I have made plenty of mental notes (but how many have I already forgotten?). Within a week I need to get back to the editing. I have to finish the hand corrections so I can make the digital changes to print a clean copy for my wife to read before she heads back to work in a few months. That edit I feel will be critical to the success of the book.

Posted by Don Clark at 12:55 PM
Categories: Editing, Success or Failure

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Page 138

Monday, July 07, 2008

Now there are Three