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T-17 Days: Oh Editing

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Another update on my work on Focused Fandom: Cosplay, Costuming, and Careers

Well today's the day I have to change editors.

it's not a crisis – my editor landed a killer job interview which killed the chance she'd get to the book.  This was on top of some illness going around and the usual chaos.

Fortunately I had two other editors in the wings, and the next person in the que was up and ready to do it – at a discount.  Of course I still have one spare editor whose total dynamite, so I need to keep her in mind for yet other projects . . .

The joy of self-publishing.

I've learned from this that editing really is something to start much earlier, and my attempt to make a condensed timeframe made this a bit more difficult.  For my next book using this method I'm clearly going to have to rethink some of my timelines – I think I need to get things edited almost as I work on them.

Still, the book's coming together – if I get the final edits in this weekend, next weekend will be formatting the eBooks, and we're still on track for October 4th . . .

– Steven Savage

Frustration Friday: You Know, You All Can’t Win

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So GameStop has a kind of approved/branded Tablet.  Amazon has a tablet.  Everyone else has a tablet.  And I just keep thinking . . .

. . . not everyone can win.  At least not everyone can be The Tablet.

I mean it's obvious, right?  But I the thing is that a lot of Tablets don't seem to be specialized, or pitched at a specific audience (even the GameStop tablet), but an attempt to create a Universal Device.  It's obvious that in a fight to be The One, not everyone can win.

Maybe some companies hope to be One of The Ones (in many cases that seems to be Google's plan), but I just get the intuiton that down deep people think their companies will "Win".

And not everyone can or will.  Worse I think the attempt to be The One may prevent some companies from achieving legitimate successes.

– Steven Savage

T-24 Days: Oh, Editing

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24 Days Until Cosplay, Costuming, and Careers comes out!

So I'm blowing half this weekend editing.

The reason I do this is I find it easy to edit in one, huge lump.  I get into the "zone," I get focused, I notice things, see patterns.  Admittedly after 180+ pages I'm probably going to be hallucinating things as well and become convinced semicolons are out to get me.

This is also a tricky time as the book isn't being edited in a "normal" fashion, but I'm taking feedback on the go.  This is because, simply, I'm experimenting with how I can streamline my writing process.  There's a chance I'm going to be so horrified after this weeked I might slow down.

But knowing me?  Probably not.

– Steven Savage