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I have not been posting much lately. I won't soon. I am incredibly busy with a book. It is not a novel I will publish, but it is the book that tells the history of the first century of my hometown football club.
I am one of the writers (5 or 6 articles and a column), but more importantly I am also the main editor. This means reading and editing a lot of what the other writers send me. Not only for languages mistakes, but also for historical facts (I also maintain the archives), but mostly for inconsistencies. I can't have one author tell one thing and another tell the opposite ten pages onwards.
As it is aimed at a big public, every single story also needs pictures or newspaper clippings to go with it. Over 300 pictures have been put in a database, but unfortunately time has overtaken us and over 2000 pictures are uncategorized.
Next month the book should be more or less print ready, to be presented in September, with the printers needing some time as well. I am looking forward to the result, but am dreading the mistakes that'll inevitably end up in the final draft.
Until then, many, many hours staring at a screen and chasing writers (I know you've missed 6 deadlines, but I really need your piece this week...), writing the last things myself and looking at black and white pictures from the twenties trying to recognize football players who are older than my grandfather. And he died when I was seven..
So, excuse my absence, it is for a good cause.
I am one of the writers (5 or 6 articles and a column), but more importantly I am also the main editor. This means reading and editing a lot of what the other writers send me. Not only for languages mistakes, but also for historical facts (I also maintain the archives), but mostly for inconsistencies. I can't have one author tell one thing and another tell the opposite ten pages onwards.
As it is aimed at a big public, every single story also needs pictures or newspaper clippings to go with it. Over 300 pictures have been put in a database, but unfortunately time has overtaken us and over 2000 pictures are uncategorized.
Next month the book should be more or less print ready, to be presented in September, with the printers needing some time as well. I am looking forward to the result, but am dreading the mistakes that'll inevitably end up in the final draft.
Until then, many, many hours staring at a screen and chasing writers (I know you've missed 6 deadlines, but I really need your piece this week...), writing the last things myself and looking at black and white pictures from the twenties trying to recognize football players who are older than my grandfather. And he died when I was seven..
So, excuse my absence, it is for a good cause.
