Book Report

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"Books? I like books!"

Here's the next occasional book progress update:

Introduction
Current Revision: 1

Total Words: 422 (dialogue only)

Chapter 1: Particle-Wave Duality

Current Revision: 5a

Total Words: 5,279

Chapter 2: The Uncertainty Principle

Current Revision: 7

Total Words: 4,499

Chapter 3: The Copenhagen Interpretation

Current Revision: 2

Total Words: 4,801

The Introduction dialogue isn't exactly new-- I wrote it a while back-- but it was part of the stuff that I sent to my agent to get feedback on, so I'll throw it in here.

Chapter 2 has been rather comprehensively revised, and the last couple of sections were completely re-written. Chapter 3 is new, and this revision was actually pretty good-- Kate had only relatively minor edits, and didn't point out any major structural problems. I need to go over it quickly, but I think I'll be pushing on to Chapter 4: The Many-Worlds Interpretation next.

Length may be an issue, as this is already 15,000 words (give or take). There are probably a couple hundred superfluous "really"s in there, though, and another hundred or so "also"s that could be dropped. I'm just not dealing with that at this point, though.

I may be in the market for some technical proofreading in the near future, to check whether I'm saying anything really idiotic by accident. More on that later.

Bonus Out-of-Context Dog Dialogue: "Now, you can argue about who counts as an observer--"

"Not a cat, that's for sure. Cats are dumb."

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The occasional writing update, with bonus LOLEmmy: (Photo credit: Kate) Introduction Current Revision: 1 Total Words: 422 (dialogue only) Chapter 1: Particle-Wave Duality Current Revision: 5a Total Words: 5,279 Chapter 2: The Uncertainty Principle Current Revision: 7 Total Words: 4,499 Chapter 3:…
It's been a couple of weeks since the last progress report, and Emmy is getting concerned. So what's the status of the book, anyway? Introduction Current Revision: 1 Total Words: 430 (dialogue only) Chapter 1: Particle-Wave Duality Current Revision: 5a Total Words: 5,279 Chapter 2: The Uncertainty…
It's been a while since I did one of these, so here's your book progress update for the last couple of weeks, with the obligatory dog picture. This is probably the halfway point for the first draft, more or less. Introduction Current Revision: 1 Total Words: 430 (dialogue only) Chapter 1: Particle-…
"Hey, dude. What's in the binder?" "Well, it's the first draft of my book. I finished it this morning, and printed it out to have a paper copy to look at." "Ooooh! The book about me?" "Well, it's a book about physics, featuring you. But yes, that's the only book I'm working on at the moment." "…

Let it be said that the Spaulding family is also in high anticipation for your book.

So, keep writing already!

Cheers

Shroedinger was willing to sacrifice his cat for science, but not his dog.

Lawyers can do tech edits. Wait, you have a problem with "whereas," "hereinafter" and "aforementioned?"

Nevermind.

Heh. Referring of course to myself and not to Kate, who undoubtedly has better technical editing skills than me. ;-)

Since bunnies are made of cheese, and (some) cheese has holes, maybe you could write a chapter about how electron "holes" make transistors work.

By Johan Larson (not verified) on 08 Oct 2007 #permalink