Didn’t do much; turns out I miscounted the days. Tomorrow it’ll be 14 days since the Kickstarter ended. At least there’s no reason not to start the Backerkit review process in the morning. That means backers may start getting surveys soon. Yay!
…Sorry. I am in a mood, and I am snappish.
Tomorrow is the time when Things Happen. It’ll be fourteen days since the FROZEN DREAMS Kickstarter ended, so the money should be released; and that means people get paid! Also, it means that I can start up Backerkit and get surveys going. Once the Backerkit is fully up, there’ll be a store for pre-orders and whatnot. I don’t expect very many pre-orders – but then, I didn’t expect very many backers, either, so what do I know?
I’ve spent the last two hours getting the last chapters fixed up after the edits. The editor found, and I repaired the hell out of, a plot hole, too. Damn thing’s practically in the can at this point. I have a heroic editor…
I need to get off my butt and finish processing these revisions. I wasn’t even going to mention that, except that I need to make a confession. You see, I just had to type out the following sentence, and I am ashamed of myself that somebody needed to point out the problem that made me write it:
Dammit, I should have realized that there weren’t enough monkeys.
And this is why editors are good, brothers and sisters.
Prepped another short story to be looked at, got another chapter back from the editor, and this has been pretty much the way of it for the last few days. I’d wish for some excitement, except that I don’t actually want any. I’d like it all to be dull as dishwasher until the funds come in and I can spend money on stuff.
I mostly spent today troubleshooting computers and trying to help my kids with their classwork, but I got another short story processed and I just got a chapter back from the editor. Seven more chapters after this one, and it’s done! If everything works out, we might even get the e-book ready by the end of the month. Which would be awesome. I’m gonna need all the time I can get to make sure the RPG supplement’s in proper shape.
Today in the ongoing Education of Moe Lane came the mentoring on the concept of slack time (my wife knows some of the management wyrding ways, you see). So, since I can’t do some of the things that I would like to do for a week or so more, she suggested that I do some of the things that were deemed lower-priority, but I could do now. My wife’s very smart that way.
So I fiddled with the short story sampler. Took one of the short stories, killed all the “thats” that I needed it to, and sent it off to a volunteer to let him pick at it some more. I do this a bunch more times, the sampler’s done and I just need to prep it for publication. And I advance a little on the checklist! Win-win.
Moe Lane
PS: If you have an interest in critiquing stories in such a fashion, drop me a line.
Well, I got another chapter back from the editor, and sent out some chapters for the audiobook, but aside from that I’m waiting for the money to show up. There’s a bunch of stuff that I can’t move on until I’m able to pay for them, and it’s – well, it actually shouldn’t be frustrating. In the world where I didn’t do the Kickstarter I’d be twiddling my thumbs waiting for enough cash to come in organically to get the book out. I’d have been able to pay for everything no later than, say, September. So, yeah, this is better.
Still, you know, I’d like to get on with things. Gotta lot of items that I’d like to check off on the action list.
Kept having my files crash when it came to the RPG, so not as much work there as I liked. But revised another chapter back from the editor, and it was useful stuff. We’re definitely getting to Zero Hour there. I need to check with my cousin over whether she wants the chapters in chunks or not.
Lot of stuff waiting on Kickstarter coughing up the funds, though.
What did I do today, anyway? Not much, I think:
…OK, I guess I did some stuff. But mostly I kind of crashed. That was a long month, folks. Fun, but long.
