Editing and Building
This week was spent doing two things with my days. In the morning, after I walk the dog, I work in the garage on one of my scratch built models. This week it was the new wings for the studio scale Spieron starfighter. In the afternoon, I re-edited Starstrikers and K’nat Trap in Atticus.
I’m in the long process of re-editing all my ebooks after converting them to a matching style template in Atticus. It’s a slow, laborious process that takes me roughly two days per book. I’m down to the last five books now - the Starforgers Trilogy. It’s been something that I’ve needed to do for a long time and I’m glad to finally be getting it done. But it is tedious.
In redoing each ebook, I’m making sure they have the same visual template and all the Copyright pages and stuff match. I’m also including links to the next book in the series. This makes it easier for the reader to just click for the next book.
For editing, I’m using Pro-Writing Aid because it has a plugin that works with Atticus. It’s slow, but I can’t copy my text from Atticus to the web page for Pro-Writing Aid without losing formatting. It’s catching my most grievous errors, but I still have to scan for ship names in Italics. Which is a major headache for some of my books.
When I finally finish all these ebook revisions, I’ll be able to focus on marketing and writing again. I wrote a short story last weekend. I will probably throw it up on the website this week. It’s a bit of a shaggy dog story. We were watching the Naval Aviator series on Disney abut new fighter pilots. It’s pretty cool if you like that sort of stuff. One of the instructors repeated the old pilot saying “There are bold pilots and there are old pilots, but there are no old, bold pilots.” Of course there are, I thought. If your story is in a sci-fi setting.
My Cubbies are still playing baseball in October. Go Gubs Go. I’m pretty sure they are doing well this year because I was finally able to go see them play in Chicago this summer. So, you’re welcome Cubs faithful.
Have a productive week and I’ll see you again, next Sunday.
Ken
Stop the presses!
Kill Dash Nine, the sequel to Null Pointer, is now available in paperback from Amazon.
