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It's that time of the week again, time for the kick in the pants. The idea is that having somewhere to report progress will spur you on to make some. So I'm posing the question to all of us here. Did you write this week? As we have been reminded in the past, writing for the purposes of this thread can mean just about anything you want. You did some editing? Report it here. Outlining, pre-writing or any other kind of prep work? Sure, that counts too. And, of course, writing new work always counts.
I continued picking away at my latest novel, Vintage, while also starting a short story for a blog projects. I had a few new ideas, and made some notes on some existing ones. Sadly, real life stuff is still keeping me from doing any significant amount of writing, but I'm keeping in the game a little at least.
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Busy week, but yes I did write. Mostly on a scene that's been giving me trouble in DREAMER'S ROSE. (I think I've finally finished that, at least for this draft.)
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I'm contemplating a demanding publishing project. It's problematic though. The client has a limited budget and wants exhaustive proofreading, copyediting, and numerous image retouching enhancements and numerous intertextual image inclusions for maximizing production values. The client is an unsavvy technology user and clueless about publishing practices.
The client doesn't have the funds to pay what the work demands, let alone pay the selected publisher's costly subvention fee. I want to back out because the project and the client are so demanding. But without me and my publication preparation skills, the book will not be published. I'm in a quandry caused by the client's demanding manipulation of my sensibilities!? This looks to be a disaster in the making that will cost me dearly in time and money and in blood, sweat, and tears.
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Extrinsic, if your client isn't willing to provide sufficient compensation for the product he demands, the only reason that I can think of for you to keep on with this project is sentiment. If this is solely a business transaction, it sounds much too cumbersome to bother with. If you foresee disaster, why not avoid it?
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Months ago, one nephew gave me a EE-PC laptop. It did not have a operating system on it. It has 2MB on board. Another nephew who had been to computer school, got an operating system onto it by using a low profile 32mb thumb drive. In testing it out (it is really slow) I wrote 800 words of drivel on another story. It has gems I can use but most of it won't be in the final story. I do need this as it gets me going in the right direction. I am working out ideas that get the story going. I will only work on this story when I have the laptop away from home.
I edited on my other story. My action still is not good and I still don't have emotions in it. It is a lot better than last week's story.
extrinsic If that book is something that really needs to be published, then it might be worth the work. Also, you might make an agreement with him that you get a piece of the royalties from the book as compensation for the work.
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After the dismal showing of the last couple of weeks, the Thanksgiving holiday week went pretty well (as these things go for me). Wrote about twenty-five hundred words altogether.
Of course, they're all one scene---and I decided the scene would work better if it were closer to the beginning of the novel rather than the stream-of-consciousness place it occupies right now at the end of the computer-MS. Now I've gotta cut it out and shoehorn it in someplace else.
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Thank you for your input. The project and its returns are complicated. Parts of the reasons I'm favoring refusal: demanding manipulation, bait and switch and buildup changes in process, high risk-low reward potential, client unfamiliarity with publishing practices and real costs and real time expended. I'm looking at eighty hours and the client is expecting to pay only a few hundred dollars.
Sticker shock might put an end to my being involved. $1600 for what needs to be done, a bargain at that price, and in a publishing software program, not a wordprocessor program, as the client insists. That is essential since there are more than one hundred photos to include, adding their captions, and needing individual retouching. Their histogram quality is pale, washed out, and unsuitable for print production. The selected publisher firm isn't especially brilliant either.
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