I know, I know, said I’d keep this “daily” habit up. Haven’t. Whoops. No excuses, but I have been pretty ill the past couple of weeks. I felt so useless and unable to function; colds, headaches etc. The usual flu-y feelings. I don’t know if I have a huge amount to report, I suppose that’s not really the point of all of this though. Is it? A record of my life thus far? Naw, that seems...wildly self-indulgent, then again, it’s nicely to be wildly self-indulgent sometimes. The purpose of this is simply to encourage me to write more. To have a routine in which I create and put words on a page, be it a poem, a journal, an idea dump. There really is no “end game” here. Just to build a skill set that I’ve spent years honing. Perhaps I’ve been too content with life recently and the urge (or need) to improve hasn’t been there. To be fair to that last comment, I’ve been working on making YouTube videos (StS playthroughs) and doing a load of work on a book. Stupidly undersold the typesetting services, but that was a lesson in itself. My typesetting skills are increasing by the boat-load, I should have charged more for the service, but there’s always next time. It’s actually quite fun, in the same way editing podcasts is fun. You just have a series of rules that need to be manually applied to a document in order to have it look good on the page. This has meant that how I read books has changed, looking at the flow of words more abstractly as a design thing rather than prose. Good typesetting is invisible and, arguably, the most underrated skill of publishing. However, it is common with these “self-published” type people that they understand little of what goes into producing a quality tome. Not their fault, but _entry ends here_ #bookproduction #habits