I spent large chunks of time last week (except for Thursday night, which I took off), and the weekend on a long, ugly slog through the Windycon program book, declaring it "mostly done and ready to be proofread, dammit" on Sunday night at about 6:00. At which point I adjourned to a hot bath.
One advantage of subsisting mainly on protein shakes is that meal breaks don't take much time out of the slog.
There are a few things left to do that I will probably wantonly ignore until next week, several of which are tasks involving my Graphics Minion (Ron).
Wantonly ignoring the book for a week is standard operating procedure, I proofread better after ignoring things for a while. This is why I try to leave two weeks between declaring a book "mostly done" and getting it to the printer. And to give other proofreaders time to do their thing, and to process their input. So really, the whole surgery thing is rather nicely timed, in that it falls right into that wantonly ignoring chunk of time.
On a not-completely-unrelated note, I seem to have a herd of hissy cows wandering around the living room...
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You have the program book done for a November convention; and I'm hoping that my pubs (+programming - which is part of the problem) has a chance and energy to get the one for Conjecture / Conchord done so we can proof it next Saturday (1 week out).
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand, we're talking about 350-400 copies, and a print shop we know has a ridiculously fast turnaround on these things.