The Day After the Big Day Is Another Day

I felt different this morning when I woke up. I felt an inch more myself. I’ve been lousy at completing my personal projects for most of my life, but when I’m working on a project for someone else, I’m a demon at “getting the job done.” When I’m working for myself, I start with enthusiasm and energy, and then, as I enter the hard work stage of a project, my enthusiasm is sucked dry by my fear of failing…but that didn’t happen this time. Every time the prospect of failure dripped poison into my ear, I turned away and thought, If I can put my head down and just do another inch today, I won’t succumb. I became an art soldier, marching into the teeth of doom. But for art soldiers, the only doom is not to put one foot in front of the other and keep going.

Now that the print book is done, I’m moving on to the eBook version. I looked at it today for the first time in five months. It needs updating with the final images and text. It will take about a week to bring in the new images. After I publish the eBook, this project will be complete and I will move on to the next book in the Jimmy Jay series.

Here’s what a screwed up page looks like when the original image is missing and InDesign uses a cached low-res thumbnail. The jaggy problem will be fixed when I re-link to a high resolution PSD file.

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