V(w)orpal sword
A quick bit of blawg, so I don’t break my non-stop blogging streak:
VWORP!1 is undergoing last-minute revisions after a brutal editorial once-over. I had someone look it over and, you know, when you have someone look things like this over, you expect them to be uncompromising. The good news: it’s a good book, it just needed lots of little persnickety grammatical and punctuation fixes. But the knock-on effect has been a little bit of a delay and an increased page count (I realized, very late in the game, that there was stuff I’d left out). This is why you have someone else look over your crap. Sort of like the little internet meme graphic making the rounds: proper punctuation is the difference between knowing your shit and knowing you’re shit. That, and some minor formatting/layout fixes, have pushed the page count dangerously close to 400.
I printed out a copy, from beginning to end, on paper, just to look at it. I learned two things from doing this.
- That’s a good way to kill two ink cartridges.
- I’ve written a big-ass f@#$ing book.
I hope you like it. It should still be ready for OVGE.… Read more
