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Chapter 9 complete - The Queen - 07-31-2009
Finished the rough draft of Chapter 9 today. I've written 207 pages. That's 8.5 x 11, single spaced. Yes, there are a few pictures (screen shots) taking up some space here and there, but it's mostly words. I'm going to talk to the folks who are planning to publish this monster and see if, perhaps, they want to make it a three volume series rather than one massive giant book. Anyway, section 1 or volume 1 or whatever they wind up calling it, the first 10 chapters, is nearly done. And that's with them introducing a new product on me on Monday that completely changed about 12 pages of material in chapters 1, 4 and 5.
Re: The Queen's Albatross - The Queen - 08-12-2009
Chapter 10 complete, and rewrites addressing the fancy shmancy new writer and Windows 7 instructions are complete. Tomorrow, I finish the instructor's guide, quiz questions and extra credit activities section and then get to email the 216-page textbook, and 57- or 58-page instructor's guide off to the proofers. They're talking about making this a three volume set rather than three sections in a single volume. Anyway, MAJOR feeling of accomplishment. :-D
Re: The Queen's Albatross - Greg_phpbb3_import1 - 08-12-2009
Hmmm. So how is your albatross coming, Pom Daddy?
Re: The Queen's Albatross - The Queen - 08-13-2009
OK - copies of the first rough draft are off to the three editors.
Textbook = 216 pages, 65,894 words.
Instructor's Guide = 56 pages, 21,228 words.
Boy I wish I got paid per word.
And boy, do I wish I didn't have to write a newsletter for my training agents right now.
pwned by TQ - Drunk Monk - 08-13-2009
I guess what I need is a room full of cats and a carpenter bf to get me writing again. Right now, I'm totally blocked on this stupid feature article that I'm trying to finish.
Congrats TQ. That's awesome. We'll come to your signings at Borders.
Re: The Queen's Albatross - The Queen - 08-13-2009
Thank you. One down, two to go. Or two down, four to go, depending on how I count it, I guess.
Re: The Queen's Albatross - Dr. Ivor Yeti - 08-14-2009
In the Albatross Smack-Down Universe, there is The Queen...and no one else.
Re: The Queen's Albatross - The Queen - 11-08-2009
Three months (and a software version and an operating system release later), I *finally* got some feedback. The woman in charge of the department that will be publishing this epic wanted to know if she could have the updated, rewritten-after-editing-notes versions for ALL THREE volumes and instructor guides by February. I told her, "No, of course not. Between now and then I have to write and program a 1500-page CBT and other software training tools for the Version 11 software release and teach/test/certify 50+ freelance trainers on the new version on top of all of the other things I regularly do."
"Oh. Well how about by next August, before the convention?"
"That, I can do."
I start writing again next March.
My Albatrosses (Albatri?) - thatguy - 11-09-2009
Got one major update out the door in September. Kicking the next one (Win version) out of the nest tomorrow. Then it's on to localizations, bug fixing, and digging into the next cycle. At least I should be able to come up for some air for a few months.
--tg
Re: The Queen's Albatross - Dr. Ivor Yeti - 11-09-2009
I posted to the Victory Fencing Twitter thing. Does that count?
Re: The Queen's Albatross - Greg_phpbb3_import1 - 11-09-2009
I resist the notion that the Yeti actually twittered. It's just unseemly.
the moral of the story - Drunk Monk - 11-09-2009
never get in a writing race with a stenographer
Re: The Queen's Albatross - Greg_phpbb3_import1 - 11-09-2009
ixNay on the Stenographer. Unless you want anger at the miscategorization.
my bad - Drunk Monk - 11-10-2009
i mean dominatrix-boot-wearing cat lady... :oops:
rising from the dead - The Queen - 02-25-2010
The Queen's Albatross has been resurrected - or at least taken off the back burner. Just have to fix all those pesky references to old OS's and last year's software version, add a little about features that have been added in the latest version and get it done and turned in by April 2, and I should have a "published" book that will be autographable by the NCRA convention first week in August. Yay.