I’m about to drag my son out of bed to catch a bus, then we hit a few bookstores in town to sign stock. I would have done this last week if my copy edit hadn’t been due, but whatever. Things to do! Abouts to be rushing!
Randomness for 10/12
Standard1) MIT students build high altitude “space” camera on $150 budget. via jeffsoesbe. It’s an interesting story, but the “Take THAT!, NASA, you spendthrift!” tone is annoying.
2) Wealthy conservative crusader tries to eliminate local library, drives 11-year-old girl to tears.
3) Here’s a beauty from Awkward Family Photos.com. If you’re wondering what’s awkward about it, look again.
4) WWII GI returns rare books stolen from hidden German stash. via bookslut.
Craftspeople and artists at their work
StandardHere’s a newly recut trailer for 2012, with all the special effects removed. This lets you really focus on the acting.
via Andrew Sullivan
Does anyone know of a web hosting/social networking site designed to let kids set up their own site? I happen to know a little person who does not want to use a folder on my personal site.
Go, little copy edit! Fly!
StandardFly like the wind!
I just dropped the copy edit for Game of Cages off at the downtown Seattle post office. It ought to arrive in NY tomorrow, which is good because it’s due on Tuesday and Monday is a federal holiday.
::crosses another item off list::
Tomorrow is a family day, and Sunday I dig into the rough draft of Man Bites World.
Nobel Committee to U.S.A.: “Here’s a piece of candy for being our friend again.”
Standard“Please don’t scare us any more.”
Ha ha! Startling!
StandardI have a copy edit due on Tuesday, 10/13. It has to be there, inside the publisher’s offices, on that day. Express overnight mail, people!
Monday, 10/12, is a federal holiday, and all the post offices will be closed!
Luckily, I should be able to put it in the mail tomorrow.
ETA: (because I didn’t want to put this into a new post) My Amazon.com sales ranking for Child of Fire seem to be following a steady routine, at this point. Early in the day, about 8 am PST, the rank is around 14K. Later in the day, (say, about now) it’s up to 28K.
I know it doesn’t mean anything, but I wonder what it means. (I know: Nothing.)
Dammit
StandardI was so close to finishing my copy edit this morning. This evening, maybe. I also have to work up the dedication and acknowledgements.
Still. So close. Ah, well. I expect I’ll make a couple last decisions after work today and put it in the mail tomorrow, well before deadline.
Also, there’s nothing like a rigorous copy edit to make you question the strength of your relationship with your mother tongue. Apparently, I need to work a bit on the difference between “each other” and “one another”.
Remember last June?
StandardI hope you do.
Anyway, I wrote a post about a book called Meditations on Violence: A Comparison of Martial Arts Training & Real World Violence, which was not only about the way real fights differ from what we expect, but is also about how we deceive ourselves about what we can do and what we can’t. My original post is here: blog / LiveJournal.
Well, last night I had another “Meditations” moment: For quite a while now, I’ve been a morning writer. Physically, I’m a night person, but I could never get anything accomplished at the end of the day–too tired, too distractible, too many other things to do. For years, I’d come home from work and get nothing done on my projects. Once I started waking early and writing before work, I was much more productive.
But why, exactly, was that? Did I say tired and distractible? That’s just me defining myself as a person who can’t do some perfectly reasonable thing, and last night I walked out of my day job after a full day’s work and my usual morning writing session to head to the library.
There, I put in another two and a half hours on the copy edit. I expect to finish the whole thing today.
Can’t write/revise/whatever at the end of the day? Why do I tell myself these things? And how long is it going to take for me to break that habit?