Lost Time
on Mar9 2010Didn’t have enough time to post this last night, despite already having most of it done. Just ran out of time. You know the drill . . . when your best laid plans get turned sideways. Score - chaos 1, me 0. It’s unfortunate when it happens, but we’ve all fallen victim to it at one time or another. We’re trundling along, working hard, doing our best to keep ourselves motivated and upbeat, working towards that nebulous end-goal and the satisfaction it’ll bring us. For me, it’s writing. For other people, it’s knitting a scarf, or completing a college course, or sharpening a knife while muttering, “Laugh at me, will they? I’ll show them!”
I try to avoid that last sort.
But still, all of us who have ever worked toward a goal have found ourselves in this particular situation. You sit there, looking at what you’ve done, looking at whatever your source of instruction/direction is, looking at your stuff again, and then you say to yourself, “Damn. I messed up.”
If you’re particularly unlucky, it’s followed by the words “I’m going to have to do that entire thing over again.”
(le sigh)
On the plus side, I didn’t actually say that last bit . . . I only have to re-format about a fifth of what I’ve done so far. Suffice it to say, when you’re formatting text inside of custom-sized book pages, you need to be very sure that all your margins are perfect, text size is squared away, and everything concerning the page itself has been considered and taken care of. This includes little things, like making sure that 8″ x 10″ really means 8″-high by 10″-wide, and not the other way around.
Still, now that I’ve completely flubbed that up, it’s maybe time to consider whether 8″x10″ is even too big to begin with. After all, not everyone is comfortable reading Shakespeare in a size-format that resembles a children’s coloring book.
So much to consider. Blargh. At least the cover art kicks butt.
Book: Shakespeare Project - 80% done
Yes, I know I was at 85% done last week, but as I may have mentioned above, both fate and erroneous assumption stuck their tongues out at me and went “Pbthbthtbhbth!” this weekend, so I’ve got some re-work to do. The bulk is still done, I just need to change . . . well, everything else. (sigh)
Novel: Pride - 40% done
Yes, I know, it’s the same as it was before, but I did a little more reading/editing/proofing on it, and I’m still stoked about how the whole thing reads.
New Project: Jekyll and Hyde - 0% done
Ah, but what a 0%. I hadn’t given it more than a casual thought when I’d first come up with it, encountered a problem, and thought to myself “Wow, that would probably be great, if I ever found a cool way to deal with that aspect of it,” where ‘that’ was the very thing that made it a neat idea in the first place. Well, I found a cool way to deal with it, and now I’m stoked enough about it to include it in my semi-official list of projects.
Semi-official List of Projects: 1% done
Argh, I knew I was gonna forget something. Yeah, I’d made some sort of noise about how I’d put a list of all my ‘In Progress’ stuff in the ‘In Progress’ section. Totally my bad. I got sidetracked by a winning streak in Poker. It’ll be put up soon, I promise.
