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I loathe smart quotes
Apr. 9th, 2020 11:16 pmI really, really, really do. Although admittedly it's straight quotes that are harder to deal with. If you like smart quotes, but have to convert them all to straight quotes, it's easy. However trying to convert the other way around is always a bitch. Libreoffice, whyyyyyyyyyy must you be this way?
Anyhow! This is a familiar rant that happens every time I have to format something. I hate formatting. I don't really like editing. I despise basically everything about the process of publishing and selling published things. I want to just write stories! I am a writer! I am not an editor! I am not a... uh... formatter? That's not a thing, but whatever. I'm also not a publisher, blurb writer, cover artist, cover art designer, social media expert, or salesman!
This all goes to say that I spent today both formatting and giving a final proof-read to Blood and Fire. I still need to write a synopsis, and I might buckle down and try to actually fix the straight quotes thing and the weird paragraph tab thing, too. I swapped to a different version of Scrivener half way through writing this one, and there were some hiccups in the process, let's say, so this manuscript is buggier than usual.
Should manage to get it sent out tomorrow, though. Blood and Fire will make three paperback novels, and nine total "books" for sale in e-book format from me. :3 Though some of those are not novel length. Still! Slowly the catalog grows. The sales also seem to grow, though also very, very slowly, and hell if I know what current events will do to that! I get everything quarterly, and for most things at the end of the quarter following the quarter it sold in, so I'll know what April's sales were like some time in November. :P
Still living in a pit of despair and depression, but every now and then I manage to push something through it. I've got lots of experience doing that, sadly.
Hopefully everybody else is still hanging in there too.
Anyhow! This is a familiar rant that happens every time I have to format something. I hate formatting. I don't really like editing. I despise basically everything about the process of publishing and selling published things. I want to just write stories! I am a writer! I am not an editor! I am not a... uh... formatter? That's not a thing, but whatever. I'm also not a publisher, blurb writer, cover artist, cover art designer, social media expert, or salesman!
This all goes to say that I spent today both formatting and giving a final proof-read to Blood and Fire. I still need to write a synopsis, and I might buckle down and try to actually fix the straight quotes thing and the weird paragraph tab thing, too. I swapped to a different version of Scrivener half way through writing this one, and there were some hiccups in the process, let's say, so this manuscript is buggier than usual.
Should manage to get it sent out tomorrow, though. Blood and Fire will make three paperback novels, and nine total "books" for sale in e-book format from me. :3 Though some of those are not novel length. Still! Slowly the catalog grows. The sales also seem to grow, though also very, very slowly, and hell if I know what current events will do to that! I get everything quarterly, and for most things at the end of the quarter following the quarter it sold in, so I'll know what April's sales were like some time in November. :P
Still living in a pit of despair and depression, but every now and then I manage to push something through it. I've got lots of experience doing that, sadly.
Hopefully everybody else is still hanging in there too.