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Writer of Penny and Aggie, Fans (also called Faans), Rip & Teri, Search Engine Funnies and A History of Webcomics. Experienced webcomics editor, currently seeking full-time work and working on strange and interesting new things...Tuesday, March 21, 2006
Still Working On The Book...
...and have been since Friday, in between a bout of food poisoning, some nice Penny and Aggie kibbitzing with Greg, a little Sledge Hammer marathon with same, lots of online and phone time with my honey, preparations for Oxford, and, oh yes, wrestling with crippling self-doubt.
Part of me wants the book to be done forever so that I never ever ever have to deal with this again, and part of me wants it to be unpublished forever so that I can always imagine it will be perfect tomorrow. Usually I get through the self-doubt phase pretty soon and move on to the "just give it your best shot and see what happens" phase, but nothing about this project has been usual.
Rodney Caston got me a few notes which I integrated. That was surprisingly easy, all things considered. Lots of others have weighed in. A few notes I disagreed with and a few big ones I just can't act upon (and a couple are in direct conflict!), but all in all, I think we've got a better book here.
If it ever gets done.
Part of me wants the book to be done forever so that I never ever ever have to deal with this again, and part of me wants it to be unpublished forever so that I can always imagine it will be perfect tomorrow. Usually I get through the self-doubt phase pretty soon and move on to the "just give it your best shot and see what happens" phase, but nothing about this project has been usual.
Rodney Caston got me a few notes which I integrated. That was surprisingly easy, all things considered. Lots of others have weighed in. A few notes I disagreed with and a few big ones I just can't act upon (and a couple are in direct conflict!), but all in all, I think we've got a better book here.
If it ever gets done.
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hang in there - you did the right thing by revising. Now it's time to let it go and get it out of the way so you can go to Oxford without it weighing on you.
Trust me, I know that feeling. I'm taking a break from my own nightmare project that was due yesterday, and is only 3/12ths done.
It's not the writing, but the graphics that slows me down. Back to work :)
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It's not the writing, but the graphics that slows me down. Back to work :)
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