I’ve been working on it for almost two years. (And thinking about it longer than that.) It’s about the aesthetics of play – what makes play fun, and how it manifests itself in a variety of different cultural and artistic contexts.
Next comes a final editing pass through the whole thing. I want to tighten up the prose in a few spots, check my references, and make sure I haven’t left anything out. But by the end of next week I should be ready to start contacting publishers.
Wow! Even though I have always thought that everyone has at least one book within their self, I have also known that most will never be able to give birth to it. Congrats and I hope to see your name (even though I do not know it) on many best seller lists very soon.
I already like it. Would love to read it. Just curios if you used any examples throughout - Shakespeare (hope not), Brecht maybe, Beckett? - or is it more of an academic conceptual read?
For starters, well done. I hope it was all good fun.
Not wanting to be a dickhead but really you think you can do an edit of a 231 page book in one week? That’s faster than editors edit. And editing something you just completed doesn’t work. It needs to sit around so that when you read it again you can’t even remember writing it
Send us all a soft copy and I’ll bet my liver that someone, or several someones, will find errors.
I’ve been editing as I go, so it’s not that big of a job. Mostly it’s a final double-check to make sure I haven’t missed any loose ends and to flag the handful of references that I still need to track down.
It *is *more conceptual – I don’t do much close reading of texts, although I do use particular works as examples to illustrate particular points. For example, I build my discussion of closure around the drawn-out ending of the final Lord of the Rings movie.
