a week of traveling, editing, and moving
Each Wednesday, I take stock of the projects I’m working on, and where my brain is at.
What projects am I working on? And where is my brain at?
I’m working on far too many projects, and my brain feels like it’s about to explode in 14 different directions.
I got back from Maine after a cancelled flight (that was never actually technically cancelled), an extra night in a Portland hotel, and a very early flight the next morning.
But at least the Portland airport has couches & rocking chairs, and the many hours of delay meant that I finished up the edits I was working on.
Which means, this round of edits for Shawl Geometry Book Two are done. And I got to send them off to my technical editor this morning.
If you’re keeping track of the revolving door that is this editing process. Book One is with it’s second technical editor, on it’s third (and final) round of edits. Book Two is with it’s first technical editor on it’s first round of edits. And I’m about to dive into my first round of edits on Book Three, while I wait for Book One to come back to me.
But between now and starting in on Book Three edits, I move.
Tomorrow morning.
And as much as I’m sick of moving, this move does reunite me with my yarn/fabric stash, and the rest of my wardrobe, so I’m pretty damn excited.
running away to the coast of Maine, book in hand
Each Wednesday, I take stock of the projects I’m working on, and where my brain is at.
Sometimes, running away to the coast of Maine is exactly what is needed.
I got the first Shawl Geometry book back off my desk and onto the desk of my technical editor on Sunday. Which has allowed me to focus on the second book again – so I did some notes on the graphics. Then Monday printed it, and stupid-early yesterday morning dragged myself plus this round of book edits to the airport.
So rather than interspersing my editing with sewing, I’ll be interspersing them with boating, and napping, and eating, and if it ever gets warm enough, maybe swimming.
five more pieces, and then this book is back off my desk
Each Wednesday, I take stock of the projects I’m working on, and where my brain is at.
- intro
- outro
- resources
- cover
- front/back matter bits & pieces
Those are the four big pieces left in the first Shawl Geometry book before it is off my desk and back in the hands of editors & first readers.
And that is a good chunk of my to-do list for today and tomorrow.
This step is probably my least favorite part of writing/publishing – the last small fiddly bits & pieces that require a lot of focus, and a lot of attention, and a lot of time, but that aren’t at all interesting.
But at the same time getting to this point in the process means the project is getting super close to finished. And getting the first of the second edition of the Shawl Geometry Books done is something I’m pretty damn excited about.
