Manuscript Editing Part 1

I've wavered back and forth in how I feel about having the book published (even in small press format), and I'm guessing, at this point, that it's like having a child grow up and move away from home. Given the emotional flipflops I've felt in the last two weeks, I empathize much more heartily with my mother on allowing me to go away to boarding school. The trial that must have been I don't think I'll know for quite a while, myself. Thanks, mom, for finding the grace to put up with it.

There's the part of me that's really excited to be getting the project moving, and with such a wonderful team working on it, I'll flat out admit that that part of me is the largest, loudest bit. There's also a sense of... hmm... I've been coming up with decent vocabulary words for my feelings all day, this shouldn't be too hard... there's a feeling of unrest about it. (Which probably mirrors my pre-graduation anxieties about what to do when I'm done for the second time with post-secondary education.) But from what I can tell, it is simply part of working in the field of art - be it performing or otherwise. Eventually, it's not about you anymore, the work is its own thing, and other people get to peruse and respond or ignore it.

Blah blah blah.

That being said, this post (and I toast with the lime sherbet I'm eating) is in celebration of my first run of edits to the manuscript. There's some formatting questions that need answering - positioning of page numbers and what goes in the header (if we even use a header), etc. - but I've re-read the hardcopy 1.5 times since the first edits, and I'm satisfied with just about everything that's there. I've got a few faerie-logistical word choices to cement in place, but otherwise I've made up the end of my mind on it. Tomorrow I go through and check on what edits Seth saw needed happening (I'll be cross-referencing via two digital copies, so wish me luck), and then tomorrow evening I send it off to him. Und zhen... (say it aloud, it makes more sense, I promise, me and my bad fake accents) it should be done on this end. We'll be into the artwork-intensive portion of the post-production process of the book.

*does little happy-dance and rocks out to Feist while eating Lime sherbet*

And thus, does the world continue.

I got really hyper about putting the edits from hardcopy to digital today because I got the urge to draw again, and I need to finish this before I'm letting myself move forwards with either the comic pages or the sketches I'm working on. Some call it single-minded determination, I call it the need to actually finish something from time to time.

Anywho, I'm off to write my health insurance check and have a cup of tea before I pass out. 4 hours of computer editing will suck your soul into your G4 anyday.

Peace and sandwhiches, folks.