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I took yesterday off, and then today I went through the book on Kindle Create. There’s still enough formatting weirdness that I have to go over it carefully. I did the introduction & part 1, which is about the first third of the book.

Also I have my name on Google alerts, and someone’s put up Trust—I got to send my very first DCMA takedown notice. It’s a bit weird because you have to identifying information—of course, I’ve looked up theirs, but I feel like the whole point of this is that I am a law-abiding sort and they are not, so I feel a bit disadvantaged.

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I finished inputting the corrections, and then got ready to put the book onto Kindle.

To do that, I needed to convert the file into a .doc file. And guess what? Yes, the formatting got completely fucked up—everything was bold, italic, underlined AND double-struckthrough (which was not even something I knew was possible to do!).

Much untangling later, it’s in Kindle Create, and I think it’s probably OK, but obviously I’m going to go over it much more carefully before I upload it.

Tomorrow…..

Rum Soakers & WTF

I’m about halfway through part 4—not much left to do, but I won’t be able to finish today.

One of the things that stumped me and now the copy editor are references in the letters to things called “Barbinettes.” No idea what those are, but I’m guessing some kind of dried fruit, since they often are mentioned along with “rum soakers.” I wasn’t sure how to spell “Barbinette” either, but having gone over the scans very carefully, I think that’s the spelling—he capitalizes the “B” consistently, which is about the only consistent usage of capitalization you’re likely to see in those letters.

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Whoo-hoo! Dislocated World is back from the copy editor!

I’ve begun inputting those changes, but then I was going to print out the Tribulations layout to mail to him, buuuut…the computer is being weird, and the printer won’t print the layout properly. So I’m having to fiddle with stuff to get him a proper PDF. Ugh. This kind of stuff always throws a wrench in the works.

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Not a lot of progress today: I’m still kind of stressed & distracted, which is bad because actual writing requires the most focus. But I did realize that there was a minor continuity issue that would be easier to fix in Tribulations than in Trials, so I did that.

And I could do that because I still haven’t given Tribulations to the copy editor. In this unfortunate age, it feels really weird to do basic stuff like ask someone when they’re going to be done with A Dislocated World. But I figured since the holidays & election & coup attempt were over, I would go ahead and ask. Not shockingly, the copy editor has been occupied & distracted, and he actually forgot about it (!), but he is expecting to get it back to me fairly soon.

I wasn’t planning to lay out A Dislocated World, but then I realized after a few conversations that much of the older generation in my family can’t use e-books. So it would honestly be kind of cruel to not have a paper book available, plus I’ve had enough time to recover from my last layout. I think what I’ll do is put it out as an e-book (just on Amazon to start with), and then do a layout. I won’t have the copy editor go over the layout, so it might be a bit rough, but hopefully it will be OK since the text has been copy edited.

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Yes, I’ve been distracted.

But I was able to get focused today. Because it’s been so long & I haven’t edited, I figured I would start by going over what I’ve written, and I edited two chapters (there are nine so far). It’s all a bit rough, but honestly not bad for this stage!

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Things have gotten a little busy again, so I wasn’t able to do a lot of writing again. But there was part of this one relationship dynamic that wasn’t thrilling me, and I actually had some good ideas about it, so I did some editing on that today.

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Thanksgiving obviously created some distractions, but today I read through what’s been written—I feel like it’s mostly OK, although the first chapter may be too focused on backstory. It’s hard because this is Book 4, and there’s a lot going on by this point….

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I did some noodling with Tribulations today—nothing major, just something I wanted to add. Except that it’s laid out, so even minor changes require a lot of effort. At least it hasn’t gone to the copy editor yet.

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990 words, whoo!

It’s been a little tough, not just because of the political drama but because of the end of Daylight Savings Time. I have a lot of heavy-duty landscaping/yard work to do, and I have to do it while there’s daylight. But it’s strenuous enough that I can’t landscape first and then write. So it’s a bit of a quandary—it looks like I finished writing early enough today to get on it, so that’s good.