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Self-imposed crunch time, find/replace mishaps, & Triple Stream Days!
🕑 Added 2024-03-28 01:24:16 +0000 UTCHello, hellooooo!
Crawling out of my Crunch Time Cavern to wave as time flies by much too fast. March is almost over? Hello? What?
The cavern is of my own making. I “finished” A Closet Full of Cauldrons a couple weeks ago, but knew I needed to go back and smooth things out, fill in names, create some spells, etc., and gave myself a deadline to have it Actually Finished by April 1st.
In fact, I've already notified all my alpha readers to make sure they had room on their schedules. The only problem? ACFoC isn't quiiiiite there.
The plus side? There’s still time! Still time and some Double, no, TRIPLE Stream Days with y’all to boot.
Triple because your girl needs all the writing time she can get. Here are the dates and times:
Friday, March 29th at 2:45pm CDT. (I'll be live on Twitch at 9:45am this same morning, but we're only rolling the D100 once and that's it, so it'll be nice to get some more writing in with y'all later in the day!)
Saturday, March 30th at 6:30pm CDT
Sunday, March 31st at 9:45am CDT
(I know some of y'all celebrate Easter and that's happening this weekend! So I hope you have a wonderful holiday and can maybe use these streams as an excuse to get away from family and squeeze some writing in, if you need it, lolol.)
Not to start thinking “worst case” scenarios too soon, but “worst case,” I feel confident that I’ll be sending emails out on April 5th!
Normally I realize after the fact that I should have doubled or even tripled my estimated time for a project to be done. If I’m only 1.5x over, I’m counting that as a win! Bahaha.
Another recent win — a strange one — is in my Find/Replace journey.
Some of y’all were with me on Twitch during the original mishap, but others might have seen my post over on the YouTube Community tab:
Silly me, normally I’m much more careful with my Find/Replace tool, but alas.
It has given me several snorts, laughs, and actual tears streaming down my face though, and they were very much needed.
Yesterday I found the sentence to destroy them all, though. Three whole Dom-isms in one:
So to that end, PLEASE DO SHARE your worst Find/Replace episode. Alternatively, please share a time you couldn’t read your own handwriting and if you ever figured out what the word or phrase was, I’d love to know! Bahaha.
And finally, we were supposed to have March's Crafts & Drafts book club chat, covering WONDERBOOK: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction by Jeff VanderMeer, in...well, March. But I'm running terribly behind on my reading of it (because of that ACFoC deadline, lol) and would LOVE if y'all would indulge me another week. I'll schedule the book club pick as an extra stream day sometime the first week of April! :)
For our April pick, I'm taking a spin on our craft classic pick with a chonky selection. (722 pages of chonky.)
Going by the chapter titles, you can sort of pick and choose which you want to focus in on, but I thought it'd be fun to read Truby's take on genres!
Time to get back to the writing! Thanks so much y'all and I hope your stories are treating you well. See y'all soon! :)
Comments
Lewis Stockton
Worst thing was, it was literally the last edit where I caught it. I'd got it printed out on KDP Proof copy so I could see the sizing and formatting issue; was reading through it and found it. If I'd not caught it, it would be in the published thing :D
Kate Cavanaugh Writes
Bahaha that's AMAZING. I feel like you need to use a variation of that in a future story as a curse word or warning or something. Repurpose it, it's too go to waste!
Lewis Stockton
I recently went through my latest Novel "Entitled" and changed the "City Watch" to "Constabulary." However, I'd used the word "Watch" as a breif of it. I I did the change. Turns out.. "Contabulary-out!" is now something in my world people yell. :D Luckily it was in one chapter so I didn't much to fix but I feel that it was a doncruciating thing to do
Candace Floyd
I’m absolutely cackling at all the Dom-spressions. This is why in publishing they use TK for stand ins, because there’s no words that use that combo, so you can find and replace or just easily find all the placeholders later.
Lejan
Excited to join the streams this weekend! The definite worst find/replace was changing Re (I'd decided to get rid of nicknames bc fantasy royalty) and forgetting the space, which affected words like there, are, were. I had to fix it immediately.
Kate Cavanaugh Writes
Ooooh, not at all! For alpha feedback, I'm mostly just reaching out to a couple family/friends to get a simple look at if the mystery is working. I will definitely let y'all know when I'm looking for beta feedback on the next round and ABSOLUTELY when it's time for ARCs! :)
Kate Cavanaugh Writes
Usually you just put a space after! So like Find/Replace "ex " to Dom, so that only the EX I had in all caps would be changed. That would still affect things like "ex friend" if I typed it like that, but wouldn't mess up "ex-friend" or "exist."
Jasmine
is it too late to considered for the arc/beta reading?!?!?! i am sooo intrigued in your work and am so willing to read and provide feedback if open! honestly, cannot believe that my yearly renewal is approaching, it's insane how time flies tbh.
Azure
For the find/replace thing, how do you NOT have that (ALL "ex" turning into "Dom") happen? I have yet to figure that out.
