I haven’t counted myself, but Blogger tells me this is post No. 500.

As I got close to this milestone, I started thinking about ways in which I could do something special to mark the occasion.  Instead, I sat on 499 for days without posting anything.

So to get the ball rolling again, let me update you on something that’s been keeping me pretty busy.  About six weeks ago I wrote about finishing the book draft, and since then I’ve been deep into reading the whole thing cover-to-cover and doing a round of edits.

I finished my read-through last weekend, and am now in the process of making all of those changes in the electronic version.  It’s been really interesting to get feedback from my select group of readers and combine that with my own views upon experiencing the full story.  If only I had an intern to make the eye-numbing changes on so many pages.

The good thing is that I feel much better about the book after both reading it myself and hearing good things from others.  It’s not that I doubted myself that much, but this is the first time I’ve ventured into this kind of project so there was just no way to really know what I had.

Soon I’ll be moving onto the next step of getting closer to being able to share it with everyone.  Details as they come.

My special gift for this historic post — my soundtrack for today’s editing work: