I mean, surely deadline and con come with considerable advance warning? Which allows, like, planning and stuff?
Not neccessarily. According to the mary_gentle conference on Cix, the deadline for the book was the end of March. A lot of 15hr days were pulled, and the book handed in. Phew!
Then they said they were putting it into production at the beginning of May, which is a ludicrously tight schedule for completing all the editing, polishing, rewriting bits that don't quite make sense etc. More 15hr days pulled. It transpires that a long weekend "break" over Easter is not actually feasible unless the book is to go into print not-quite-finished.
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Date: 2003-04-16 22:54 (UTC)Not neccessarily. According to the mary_gentle conference on Cix, the deadline for the book was the end of March. A lot of 15hr days were pulled, and the book handed in. Phew!
Then they said they were putting it into production at the beginning of May, which is a ludicrously tight schedule for completing all the editing, polishing, rewriting bits that don't quite make sense etc. More 15hr days pulled. It transpires that a long weekend "break" over Easter is not actually feasible unless the book is to go into print not-quite-finished.