Brandon Cornwell

Blacksmith, Woodsmith, and Wordsmith

25 Posts for Publishing Progress Category

Personal Update, Publishing Progress, Website Update

ONE WEEK!

The last nine days have been busy. Between balancing work, health, family life, map-making, and designing the cover with my awesome brother, I’ve been slowly descending into the stressed-out madness that I think consumes all creative types when they first start putting their work out into the world. I’ve given myself some time off to […]

Written by Brandon Cornwell in March 24, 2017 / 1076 Views
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Publishing Progress

Sixteen days!

Well, all of the editing is done for Dynasty of Storms Vol I, Book I. It has been for about a week or two now. I think I’ve figured out the whole eBook formatting thing, as it seems to work well on the devices I’ve been able to test it on. Just waiting on a […]

Written by Brandon Cornwell in March 15, 2017 / 1092 Views
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Almost halfway there!

144 pages have been edited for spelling, grammar, and flow. While I am somewhat certain that I’ll miss something here or there, it’s being dramatically improved! Almost halfway there, and with any luck, I’ll be done by Saturday. If not, then no more than another week, as I balance my passion and my day job. […]

Written by Brandon Cornwell in March 2, 2017 / 2452 Views
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Proofreading is SO BORING!

Man…. I’m only at page 47 or so, out of 340, and I’ve caught a number of spelling errors, run-on sentences, and silly typos that my spellchecker doesn’t catch for me. Most of the time, it’s silly things like typing “liked” instead of “like” or “likes”, because my stupid fat fingers just hit that ‘d’ […]

Written by Brandon Cornwell in February 25, 2017 / 997 Views
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Editing!

Dude. When I started writing, I thought that the first draft would be the most difficult part. Hammering out the story itself from nothingness, creating form from the void, I thought that would be the most taxing part of the creative process. Boy was I wrong. I got to revising, after a bit of beta […]

Written by Brandon Cornwell in February 22, 2017 / 1096 Views
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