I got my version of Merm-8, second draft came from Lulu.com yesterday. I tell you, there’s nothing that compares with the sensation of seeing your work in print, even though it’s a “fake book” (as in, not a complete, finished novel). I opened the box and saw the cover that I made, the spine I made, the back blurb I made. It started as a glimmering idea in my brain and became this physical thing that exists in reality, not in bits and bytes on my computer (like Black Hole Son). It ended up on a page that people can see. And it looks like a real book. I mean,…
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Second Revision of Merm-8 is Complete
Last night, I finished the second draft of my Mermaid Story. Nice to be done with the arduous task of evaluation and analysis of each individual sentence. It’ll be good to put the critic away for a while, at least for this work. What do I have next? Well, just because I finished the text doesn’t mean I can just save it in a folder, and forget about it for a while. There’s meta stuff I have to do. Those include. 1. Fix a few artifacts in the plot (stuff that was true before I changed a plot point) 2. Run all my macros on the manuscript (this calls attention…