The longer and longer the editing process takes, the more and more I feel like it’s never going to end. It seems like we’ve been editing for months. In some aspects, we have, but it feels like a lot longer than it actually has taken. My buddy Austin, you know him — the one that’s […]
Despite going through his last few weeks of his Masters program, Austin’s been awesome at doing this editing project. I imagine that when all is said and done, he’s probably going to hate me a little bit. I don’t think he realized how much work this would be when I asked him to do it. […]
I’ve been hard at work with my editor buddy chugging our way through the first draft edit that we’re doing. It’s been a pretty slow and grueling process, but on the bright side, we’re making good headway. Based on the progress we’re making, I’m guessing this will take another 6-8 weeks. Once that’s done, I’m […]
I’ve been working with my good buddy, Austin, lately to have him go through my first draft and do a rough edit. From what I’ve read online, that means he goes through and reads the whole thing, pointing out typos, grammatical errors, etc. Of which there are plenty, I’m sure. He’s also been pointing out […]
While waiting to hear back from my friends with their feedback and comments, I’ve continued to think of ways to improve the story. Which is kind of backwards, given that I’ve asked someone to edit the first draft. I’m thinking the characters need to be painted more as pictures. I tried to do my best […]
I started reading through the first draft myself last week, and got to the fourth chapter. I quickly realized that I was too invested in the story to do the actual editing myself. So today I compiled a PDF of the first draft and sent it to my buddy Austin, who’s got an eye for […]
As you may have noticed, I have a website here. Shocking, I know! What you may not know is that I started building the website before I even started writing the book. My day job consists of many things to do with websites – working on them, building them, helping people with theirs – so […]
As part of my preparations for selling the book once I’m done with all of the other work that’s going into it, there’s a few things that I’ve checked off the list already, including registering with the various websites that’ll sell the book. As a first time author, I’ve opted to go for the big three: Amazon, […]
As I go back through my first draft and begin reading through the almost 80,000 words I’ve written, I get a sense of accomplishment. Which is a strange feeling, given that I’ve yet to finish the book entirely, I’ve yet to sell a single copy, and I’ve hardly even told anyone that I was writing […]
As I was writing, I made sure to keep track of all the words I wrote every day. Not so much because it’s important to the process, but because it helped keep me motivated. I tweeted my count each time I stopped writing (usually in the morning and again in the afternoon), but since no […]
On March 5th of this year, I set out to do something that in my entire life I’ve never been able to accomplish. I set out to write my own book, and with the added advantages of today’s technologies, I can write, publish and sell it digitally without any help of a publisher or book […]
