The 501 project: Moving right along

May 23, 2012

Well, the first round of edits are done. Now it goes to line editing, for a more careful going over. I must say I was disappointed in myself when I got the files back and found so many typos. There are always going to be artistic conflicts over wording. Perhaps if this was a novel I’d have spent hours agonizing over usage, but not for this.

Now I have a long-ass form to fill out, which is actually kind of fun and thought-provoking. I also have to have a photo taken. That, I’m agonizing over: jacket, shirt, and tie? No tie? Baseball hat? Jersey? T-shirt? Formal/serious or jovial? One problem I have is that I have become follicularly-challenged. I no longer have the flowing locks as you see in Arnold Roth’s cool caricature on the blog. I experimented with the totally bald look for a few months, but my office is too cold and I don’t feel like wearing a hat all the time. My daughter will be the photographer. She does nice work (she just had a couple of pieces selected for a juried art exhibition), but I just know she won’t want to put in a lot of time on this, me being only her father and all.

It’s also time to start asking for “advance praise,” which is a interesting/daunting experience, since I dislike being an imposition. I already have a couple “in the books,” so to speak, although one author whom I admire turned me down. I keep lecturing my kid that if she wants to be successful in her chosen field, she has to be a bit more aggressive. It’s certainly a case of “do as I say, not as I do,” since I’m pretty much on the shy side when it comes to talking about myself and my work. Guess I have to get over that fairly quickly.

 

 

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