Is it really over?
Writing a book is like fighting the Terminator: just when you think it’s done and dusted, the thing rises up again for another round.
Editing, proofing, indexing, it just never ends. Whoever said writing for a living was easy? Oh yeah, no one.
I am pretty sure I am done working on it now. I went over and corrected the final proofs, I did the index (in MS Word and it wasn’t at all as difficult as I thought it would be) and sent everything off to the production company. My handwriting is pretty awful and I’d never done any proper proofing in my life, so I’m sure my scribbled notes in the wrong places are going to raise a few eyebrows. Hopefully I won’t be getting too many emails and phone calls about it, though, because as far as I’m concerned it’s done now and is ready to be released into the wild.
Obviously, this is just the beginning, because my PR person has told me there’s already a lot of interest in the book, but at least the actual production stage of it is over. It is over, right?
Add comment March 14th, 2007