Today is Monday, and that means I'm back at work! It's been quite a good weekend over all, there's been a lot of writing going on, and I've made some interesting changes to the second draft which should prove very interesting. It's fun reading back over a piece of work when you know all you have to do is improve it. There may be a few big things to sort out overall, a few chapters here and there to switch, the obvious spelling atrocities, but in essence the hard work is done already and you get to know your book intimately inside and out! So that was the weekend for me, 24 hours, almost straight, of chopping and changing and highlighting and adjusting! And I had a lot of fun.
I suppose the biggest change was perhaps the (drum roll at your discretion) the title of the book! Always a fun one, and I'm still deliberating over it! As always I want all of you involved, so answers on a postcard to hello@bengalley.com! 'Snowfire' or 'The Written'? YOU MUST CHOOSE!
So hopefully after this week I'll be able to start planning the audiobooks and posting up the chapters on the website, which by the way, is being an utter bitch. After three weeks I'm still getting the same error messages, and I'm beginning to think that iWeb is not as glamorous and useful as I might have first thought. Teaches me to be so optimistic!
It's encouraging however, to see so much power being left in the hands of the individuals. Just like the music industry after the iTunes revolution, the onus (not anus) now lies with the artist more than ever before. The smorgasbord of myspace and the eternal world of blogs may seem overpopulated and crammed with questionable talent and opinions but you can't say that it hasn't helped. Ironically, I'm opining on my own blogspot, but the truth is people can now connect with their fans on an intimate level, they can be transparent, and with the right attitude, no longer rely on the bigboy companies to get their creations out there. So gods bless the Internet, with its ebooks and its myspace players, and push button publishing, and the hashtag, and for all its PHP foibles, Mr iWeb.
Peace,
Ben x
About Ben Galley
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- Here is a person who still thinks dragons are just hiding. He won't tell you where, because that's a secret, but he will tell you about them in great detail. And it's not just dragons either. The persistent imagination of Ben Galley is a little worrying at the best of times, running around the page like an excited child who's been given too many ice creams. He has learnt a lot about elves, dragons, unicorns, aliens, ghosts, gryphons, and magic in the last few years, and now he's going to write about them...
www.bengalley.com
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