Am about half way through chapter rewrites. Lots of ideas and suggestions to work through. Am very lucky as I've got a great set of reviewers helping me with the book. Problem for me is that this means lots of comments to think about and possible alterations to make.
And what's more exciting is that you can pre-order the book now:
http://www.packtpub.com/moodle-course-conversion/book
Don't forget to order your copy now!
Friday, 10 October 2008
Friday, 5 September 2008
1st Draft Finished
Huraah!
The first draft is complete :)
Sent this through to the project coordinator, whose response was: "Thanks for that. I'll soon be sending you through chapters for rewrites".
Boo!
... I really didn't like the sound of the word "rewrites" ;(
More excitingly, my publishers have set up a competition for cover artwork. Check out...
http://www.packtpub.com/article/submit-book-cover-images
Do you have any ideas for an eyecatching photograph? Looking in the thesaurus for "convert" I came up with metamorphose, mutate, transfigure, transform, translate, transmogrify, transmute, transpose. So I was thinking of trying to get a closeup of a butterfly with shimmery wings. My family are currently hunting around our locals woods for a baby oak tree. I'm sure you've got your own great ideas, and if you have remember there's a $100 prize.
The first draft is complete :)
Sent this through to the project coordinator, whose response was: "Thanks for that. I'll soon be sending you through chapters for rewrites".
Boo!
... I really didn't like the sound of the word "rewrites" ;(
More excitingly, my publishers have set up a competition for cover artwork. Check out...
http://www.packtpub.com/article/submit-book-cover-images
Do you have any ideas for an eyecatching photograph? Looking in the thesaurus for "convert" I came up with metamorphose, mutate, transfigure, transform, translate, transmogrify, transmute, transpose. So I was thinking of trying to get a closeup of a butterfly with shimmery wings. My family are currently hunting around our locals woods for a baby oak tree. I'm sure you've got your own great ideas, and if you have remember there's a $100 prize.
Tuesday, 26 August 2008
The Final Chapter...
You find me making this first post as I am just working on the final chapter - which is, in fact, the first chapter...
Excitingly, this is my first book and I had, quite wrongly as it turns out, expected to be writing the chapters in order...as you do.
Well... no you don't.
Under strict (but incredibly helpful) instructions from the commissioning editor, the writing started with Chapter 3. Which confused me thoroughly. But then I'm easily confused. The idea (and it is a good one) is to jump in right where the action begins. Starting that way does indeed get your mind focussed.
That said, I still had to rewrite great chunks of Chapter 3.
Excitingly, this is my first book and I had, quite wrongly as it turns out, expected to be writing the chapters in order...as you do.
Well... no you don't.
Under strict (but incredibly helpful) instructions from the commissioning editor, the writing started with Chapter 3. Which confused me thoroughly. But then I'm easily confused. The idea (and it is a good one) is to jump in right where the action begins. Starting that way does indeed get your mind focussed.
That said, I still had to rewrite great chunks of Chapter 3.
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