How I do layout on the Schlock books.
The following is a list of the things I have done/ will do to lay out Schlock Mercenary: The Teraport Wars. The list makes the process look neat and orderly. It isn’t. In reality, multiple steps were all mixed up together as I did parts of step 2 at the same time as step 4 or something like that. (It seemed smart at the time.) This list also makes it look like I could get it all done in a matter of days. Not so. Most of these steps took several days to accomplish. And then there was all that time I spent tearing my hair out in between steps and during steps as I tried to figure out how to make things work. I wish I’d had this list when I started, but I couldn’t have written it then. Anyway, here it is. …