Chapter 29: Tuesday 2 August
August already, and already it’s a day old. I can hardly believe it.
Friday
I skipped a post on Friday because I was just so busy and focused all day on one thing: Editing. I did clear a massive load, though, and ended the day only about 130 pages from the end. (It’s a very big book.)
I shot an email off to the author, offering to break it down into chapters done so far and send those to him a file at a time, or I said he could hang in there until the end of this week, when I might – might – have the whole thing ready for him. Then I closed down the office for the weekend.
The weekend
On Saturday we did the shopping. We didn’t have a lot of time, though, as the poet had a gig over in Bradford, which is an hour and ten minutes away on a good day. So we did what we could before we had to get ready and make our way over there. It was a great gig, though. Lots of fun with a good crowd.
On Sunday we did the visiting, and when we got back, I opened the office again just so I could do another chapter of the editing, which I did. The email came back from the author as well, saying he’d wait until this Friday for me to send him the whole book.
Monday
On Monday, a new Wordsworth Flash Fiction was published.
Tea for Two is another very short story I wrote a long time ago, and the first version was well over 2,000 words. I kept on chipping away at it until I was finally satisfied.
I really like this story, so I ended up publishing it myself. Now it’s been been published in Twee Tales Twee, Twee Tales More and Flash Fiction 2.
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Monday morning is usually about admin: for the publishing challenge, for the gig list, and for Monkey Dust if they have a gig coming up. This coming weekend, they have a wedding on Saturday, so I got ahead for the week after and created the poster and the event for their gig in Doncaster. Then I shared everything everywhere I could.
In the afternoon I dedicated 2 whole Pomodoro’s to the editing again. Remember, my Pomodoros are 50 minutes each not 25 minutes. I run 2 together and then have a 10-minute break. So that’s the best part of 2 hours spent on the editing, and I managed about 10 pages – that’s how long it takes to edit 10 of these pages: 100 minutes.
And then it was back to the ghostwriting.
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