I started searching for an editor today, and I gotta tell you it was exhausting. I’m pretty anal when it comes to shit like that (no pun intended – do people even use the term anal anymore?). I’ve come to realize that I am a perfectionist to some degree…okay maybe to a lot of degree and I think that just comes from being afraid of getting it wrong. Especially since I have a limited budget, I can’t afford to fuck up. I can’t afford to send my work off to somebody who pretends they edited it when they really didn’t. Who lets a bunch of errors go uncorrected. Who simply does a poor job. Like after I pay this person, if they don’t get the job done right, where I’m gon get the money to hire another one? That’s my worry, that’s my apprehension.
And, of course, I also don’t know anyone in this business, so it’s not like I can ask a friend. Not like I can be like, Hey who edited your self-published book? So I have to do research and go through the motions of contacting the person, requesting samples, maybe giving them an editing test. But at the end of the day what it all comes down to is trusting myself and trusting God. Ultimately, I just have to believe that after I do my part, God will help me align with the best person for the job. So I’ll be back at that again tomorrow.
Tomorrow is going to be a sort of busy day for me. I need to get my car smog tested, then go to the DMV to renew my registration. I also need to go to the store, get ingredients for dinner then cook dinner, oh, and write here again too. It’s 10:51pm right now. This coming here last minute every day is for the birds. It is really wearing down on me. What I need to be doing is writing a few posts a day and then just schedule the publishing. In order to do that I guess I need to get more organized. But anyway, that is the goal before this month is out. Actually, that was the goal before I even got started, but I didn’t get my fire story out and it just snowballed from there.
Speaking of my fired story, I owe you it by the end of this week, and the end of this week is Saturday. I think I’m going to do a super abridging version coupled with lessons I learned and keep it pushing. I so want to move on from that…but you know, not too fast. Not before I get everything out of it that I can. I want to be able to answer the question What did that come to teach me?
So yeah, I think that’s all for tonight. I think I feel a headache coming on, but I won’t give in to it. Anyway, until morrow.
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