I’m not quite sure why, but I’ve gotten my shit together and it’s happening. One book has been live on Amazon for a few weeks now, but it wasn’t perfect. As I got the energy up to finish the second, I realize I shouldn’t half-ass the first and fix a few formatting errors. Mainly the page #’s were on the inside of the book. Doh. Also the line spacing was far to wide and I shortened up the margins so it wouldn’t be so damn big of a book.
The second one I got a proof of a few weeks ago and it was horrendous. Such as these things go though. I didn’t have the energy until recently to bring myself to fix any of it. It was discouraging that I’d have to make the fixes, which would’ve taken 30 min tops, but that the review process usually takes 24 hrs. BUT, Createspace has merged with KDP printing (Amazon jargon I don’t quite understand) and the process is a bit more streamlined now.
I submitted the manuscript and cover last night, and got an email some time this morning about fixes that needed to be made. So here I am waking up dehydrate from the night previous of sipping on a stiff cocktail and working on my book and record (at the same time yes) and fixes are already being presented less than 24 hours later. So I have hope. I’ve resubmitted and hopefully it won’t take many more go-around’s with this. It’s a real de-motivator knowing that you haven’t bothered making changes and submitting, but when you do, you’ll have to wait a whole day, then find out you need to make even more changes, wait, change, wait. It’s all about instant grat friends! INSTANT GRATIFICATION. NOW NOW NOW. It actually hasn’t been that bad. It’s a schedule. Submit, and I’d get an email the next day at work as I’d forgotten all about it and now excited to get home.
Anywho, the record is in it’s final stages. AKA, songs are done. I need to master them (in my own special way) and of course I can’t leave well-enough alone and need to add my special through-line touch to the whole thing creating a world of extra work for myself.
Okay fine I’ll tell you. The songs are done, but I need to specially export each one, so I can bring them all into one project (my laptop can’t handle the raw tracks side by side so I need to export them raw, it’s a whole thing) and put them in the sequence I want, and then stick sounds of rain under each track. I’m not sure if I’m actually going to set it under every single thing, but perhaps SUPER quietly so it’s rarely noticeable, but more so for the bookends so they all flow. To do this properly, I need to stick the SAME track of rain (which I have) under all the tracks. It probably won’t be the same, but I have a few solid 7-20 min tracks of rain I can use from various parts of my life in the past few years. I don’t know why, but I love recording heavy rains. Might as well use them for something. Hmmm, that reminds me, I’ve recorded a crick too when I was in N.C. I might use that for the intro, then transition to rain? Yea that might be it.
To the rain.