The Writer's Life 1/29 - Outrageous

A week ago there was an article at Yahoo Sports citing weak demand for tickets to the Super Bowl. They average ducat was then going for less than $2500. At the moment the cheapest seats are going for $8500. Why anyone would pay such a sum is beyond me. Even if the game were played in NYC, I'd rather go to a friend's party than pay even $10.

I’m ready to re-submit the file of my rock n roll epic, Rising Star. I found 19 errors. Five were an unwarranted space between words. Six were punctuation flubs. There were a few of missing words and two misspellings. I dropped a sentence (He gave her a once over.) I’d used twice in a short span. I changed “anger” to “ire” because a missing word threw the entire page out of whack in the Adobe file. Those two fewer letters did the trick. I will order a third proof just to make sure the book’s structure is sound. I’m done looking for my own mistakes. I will have to wait another day to re-submit, as I just blew the process, unintentionally approving it, which I’d done once before. I will get an email from Create Space saying the book is ready to go. Then I’ll have to go back and find the proper way to re-submit. It’s a pain in the butt, but I want those errors taken out, as there are probably a few I’ve missed. The less the better. The first two or so drafts of a short story or a novel are basically play. Revision is work. I’ll be so glad when this is finally done.  

Although the temperature was in the 20's, there wasn't a breath of wind, and the sun was only partially obscured, so there was no reason not to open the floating book shop. It was a very quiet session except for the appearance of Mountain Man, who went on one of his political tirades about the fraud and waste endemic in government. "Outrageous!" he complained again and again. I agree, but it merely discourages me. He lets it make him miserable.

My thanks to Marsha, who bought Danielle Steel's Hotel Vendome.

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