It’s
a pretty empowering feeling to know you’ve kicked adversity’s ass. In other words, accomplishing something you,
or other people, deemed impossible.
Not worth it.
I
thought I could kick formatting’s ass on the manuscript for my E-Book, “Live and
Let Die.” As great as it would be to
just upload your manuscript and have it translate beautifully across various
e-readers, it’s a little trickier than that – there’s margins, paragraphs,
spacing, etc., to contend with. I knew
trying to copyedit myself was silly and forget designing a cover – about the
best I would have been able to do was some crayons on a page. However, after doing some research, I decided
to take on the formatting myself. It
looked like something I could master so I went for it.
It
was a good idea in theory. Not so much
in reality.
After
numerous tries threaded with a series of mini breakdowns, I had to face the sad
fact that formatting would get one up on me.
I couldn’t get the fonts or spacing to behave and the end result looked
like a bad cut and paste job. Rather
than put out an inferior product, I pulled “Live and Let Die” and sent the
manuscript to a professional formatter.
I’ve been given a timeframe of mid-December (possibly sooner) for
completion, so while I’m disappointed that I will have to push back the release
of my book for another month, it was the right call. I only have one shot to get this right and
putting out something I know looks like crap would surely come back to bite
me.
Not worth it.
So,
the waiting game continues, but as always, I will continue writing.
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