![]() ![]() Having one price on Vendor A and another price on Vendor B.As part of the inventory review, I’m clearing up these kinds of problems. Updating a cover on one vendor and not updating it anywhere else.Couldn’t find the image, so I bought it again. I needed to rebuild the cover for The August Ghost. I spent money I didn’t need to for this one. Not getting files in the right folders.This means when I access the folder again at a future date, I can become confused. This means I have to check every story against what’s on the site. Not getting a cover and a link up on my website.Lots of little things that I’m finding as work through my review. Instead, I did it on the publishing side. That also translated on the writing side.Īfter the debacle with the historical thriller, I never skipped anything like that again when I was writing. Seemed like a shortcut to all the pressure I was under at the time and turned into a lot more work and stress for me in the future. Then, I had to drop everything to create something, then do additional steps to fix what it affected. That shortcut turned into an emergency every time I discovered it was needed. It wasn’t needed everywhere, so I didn’t do it across the board.īut my worst pantser traits came into play and I was sloppy. No one quite seems able to grasp that the reason there isn’t enough time to do it right is that they’re always doing everything over! (And remember, computers are supposed to make everything easy and we know what a lie that is.)ĭuring that major reorganization, I was so overwhelmed that I skipped something. “There is never enough time to do it right, but there is always enough time to do it over.” Yet, this is all over our culture, as demonstrated by this quote from John W. It snowballed into a massive amount of work. When we updated all the scenes, the additional changes broke every scene that followed. That single decision broke every scene that followed. It shocked me when we went into the revision. What we should have done: Backtracked a few scenes to figure it out. We couldn’t figure out how it was supposed to happen. We knew the main character had to get captured by the bad guys, but it stumped us. I learned that lesson on a co-written historical thriller. Don’t leave out all the punctuation (I wish I was kidding) or plop PLACEHOLDER in because you can’t figure out what happens next. It’s such an important topic that he has an online clash about it, called #4 Pop-Up… Writing Clean First Draft.įor fiction writers, this means that when you type out the story, make sure it’s a reasonably clean manuscript. ![]() Best-selling writer Dean Wesley Smith has a saying: “Don’t write sloppy.” ![]()
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