Crab-Walking My Way To A Book
Garden Magic: Exploring Chlorophyll Printing is in the proofing stage!!!
Surprise, I wrote a book! This is the very first printed paper proof, and it is SOOOOOO imperfect, but I am much closer to completion of this project than I ever expected to be. I’d psyched myself out about writing it so badly that I’d decided it would never be done, but kept coming back to it, adding bit by bit. Then the most curious thing happened. I finished it. Almost despite myself. And I sent it to print before I could talk myself out of it.
Before the printed proof arrived I’d already decided I’m going to have to add another 4 pages with my newest experiments, and upon getting it in my hands immediately hated my font choices and knew 4 other things I’d do differently in the next proof, but these are all more steps in the right direction.
No longer struggling to get the content written, now it’s getting to play with the paper weight and perfect binding or stapled, finessing the language and formatting… I want it to feel like a real book. I’ll know it when I feel it. This one isn’t it, but that’s not failure. Just data. A true artist proof. One of a kind and imperfect in all the ways.
Are you an editor at heart, or just super impatient to read it?? Let me know, and I'll get you a link to the free e-book version!!
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Wow! That looks so cool! I love the typeface. Curious, how does this proof not feel 'book like' enough?
Much luck with finalizing your book, Devon!