Getting Started
Still waiting the contracts, but that shouldn't be long now I hope.
Well Ive made a start on the book...now hold on before you tell me off because my last post said I wouldnt start writing until I had a contract turn up!...Ive only been doing little bits and bobs.
Mainly getting the easy stuff out of the way to pave the way to easier writing of the chapters when the contract does turn up. There are alot of permissions to get signed off before the real work can be done, where I actually write some of the book.
So the dedication, acknowledgements and forword are all done! In terms of writing "Nothing" because its hardley anything. But for me to know who to put in the acknowledgements means i'm making some good progress on who is going to help me on the project. It is certainly difficult to write a whole computer book on your own without some form of help, and this project is no different. Of course i will be writing 99.9% of the text, I still need many other forms of help. Especially with the looming deadlines :D
Talking of deadlines we are looking at something like:
May 15th for half the manuscript
July 20th for full manuscript
As you might be able to work out, the second half has less time than the first half. Unfortunately the second half is usually the harder part [gulp].
Reason the second part of the book is harder is because I personally try and get some of the easier chapters out of the way as quickly as possible. The real difficult ones come towards the end of the book writing process (this is so I can make good progress and hit the half manuscript deadline). Also you find that you dont want to spend a week doing research and not have written anything at the start, you just want to get into it and start knocking the page count down.
Ive printed off my calendar, so I can keep a track of page counts (always a fun game you can play when writing). I also know that I need to be writing around 15 book pages a week to be on target for the first deadline. Thats not too bad, and it doesnt sound it when you have a real easy chapter to write (luckily i probably have about 6 chapters that should hit around 30 pages each)..but some chapters might only come in at about 3 or 4 pages each...now they are hardones to write and get right!
When do i really expect to get started on the real process of writing? Well not until the end of next week (March 4th and 5th). I might start to pad out some of the harder chapters with ideas and basic text to make it easier, because I cant do some of the major work until i have some graphics and code.
Anyway, work to do, permissions forms to write. See you next time, when i hope to actually have done some real work!
Jason
Well Ive made a start on the book...now hold on before you tell me off because my last post said I wouldnt start writing until I had a contract turn up!...Ive only been doing little bits and bobs.
Mainly getting the easy stuff out of the way to pave the way to easier writing of the chapters when the contract does turn up. There are alot of permissions to get signed off before the real work can be done, where I actually write some of the book.
So the dedication, acknowledgements and forword are all done! In terms of writing "Nothing" because its hardley anything. But for me to know who to put in the acknowledgements means i'm making some good progress on who is going to help me on the project. It is certainly difficult to write a whole computer book on your own without some form of help, and this project is no different. Of course i will be writing 99.9% of the text, I still need many other forms of help. Especially with the looming deadlines :D
Talking of deadlines we are looking at something like:
May 15th for half the manuscript
July 20th for full manuscript
As you might be able to work out, the second half has less time than the first half. Unfortunately the second half is usually the harder part [gulp].
Reason the second part of the book is harder is because I personally try and get some of the easier chapters out of the way as quickly as possible. The real difficult ones come towards the end of the book writing process (this is so I can make good progress and hit the half manuscript deadline). Also you find that you dont want to spend a week doing research and not have written anything at the start, you just want to get into it and start knocking the page count down.
Ive printed off my calendar, so I can keep a track of page counts (always a fun game you can play when writing). I also know that I need to be writing around 15 book pages a week to be on target for the first deadline. Thats not too bad, and it doesnt sound it when you have a real easy chapter to write (luckily i probably have about 6 chapters that should hit around 30 pages each)..but some chapters might only come in at about 3 or 4 pages each...now they are hardones to write and get right!
When do i really expect to get started on the real process of writing? Well not until the end of next week (March 4th and 5th). I might start to pad out some of the harder chapters with ideas and basic text to make it easier, because I cant do some of the major work until i have some graphics and code.
Anyway, work to do, permissions forms to write. See you next time, when i hope to actually have done some real work!
Jason
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