I’m still getting the bugs out of my book. As I read through it aloud, I’m finding places where there’s too much exposition, where the words overwhelm the images, where the images need cleaning up. It’s not that I’m a perfectionist — it’s just that I don’t want to see obvious errors and inconsistencies. The book is 110% finished, and now to get it right, I’m editing out the extraneous 10%.
I’m hearkening back to Mark Twain again: When in doubt, leave it out.
A partial view of the Clip Studio Paint EX project galley
Mark Twain got it right — leave out the stuff that you spin your wheels getting right. That goes for images as well as words. As much as I treasure every precious creation that I emerges from my brain, it feels good to work with an attitude of plenty rather than paucity. I feels good to get rid of the problems that block progress because they can’t be solved by my current skills.
The picture above shows a section of the Clip Studio Paint EX project view. I’ve been staring at this for months. After I publish this book I’m going to take a week to process what it means to set a goal, create a plan, and carry out that plan inch by inch. Then I’ll start book number three in The Adventures of Jimmy Jay series.
