The past five weeks have been extremely busy with prepping Post for production. Another page-one edit was done, this time with the assistance of a semi-secret editor who knew nothing about the bands or labels, but really understood the material. Nothing in the book's structure changed, but a lot of grammar and overloaded sentences were re-tooled. Hopefully these changes didn't make the overall book feel "overproduced."
Now that the final edit has been sent off to the publisher, I will see a new proof in about a month-and-a-half. I will have two weeks to make any last-minute corrections before the book goes into production. After that, I should have a release date.
Make no mistake, filling up free time on afternoons and weekends to edit was really tedious. But what the hell else was I going to do? Drink a lot and watch a lot of movies? I can do that at any point in my free time. I guess it's understanding the amount of free time I have and taking advantage of it. Any conversation I have with a parent reminds me of how much free time I have.
I won't lie, I have a bit of the jitters now. Kind of like someone who's about to get married, wants to get married, but is a little afraid of change because a number of things just won't be the same. Such is life: we can try to make the best things we can, but we don't really know until we unleash them out into the world at large.
Now that the final edit has been sent off to the publisher, I will see a new proof in about a month-and-a-half. I will have two weeks to make any last-minute corrections before the book goes into production. After that, I should have a release date.
Make no mistake, filling up free time on afternoons and weekends to edit was really tedious. But what the hell else was I going to do? Drink a lot and watch a lot of movies? I can do that at any point in my free time. I guess it's understanding the amount of free time I have and taking advantage of it. Any conversation I have with a parent reminds me of how much free time I have.
I won't lie, I have a bit of the jitters now. Kind of like someone who's about to get married, wants to get married, but is a little afraid of change because a number of things just won't be the same. Such is life: we can try to make the best things we can, but we don't really know until we unleash them out into the world at large.
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