Zero Multiplied by Two Is Still Zero: A Wordclay Free Self Publishing Math Lesson
August 14, 2008 at 12:11 pm angiekp 2 comments
There’s a wonderful math lesson that we all learned one day in school: the times table for the number zero. It was wonderfully simple, and it’s a shame more of the times tables couldn’t follow zero’s lead. But when Wordclay introduced its free online publishing service, a friend to writers was born, and this times table became a new source of inspiration.
Writers pour their heart and soul into their work, but it’s true that extreme fear can set in when the reality of publishing hits. Yet there’s a wonderful truth about Wordclay I’d like to point out to writers. When you’re preparing your work for publication with Wordclay, and you want to know that it’s ready – really ready – for publishing, you don’t have to wait. Just publish it.
Now, that might sound a bit crazy. But you know that you’ve put in the time with your work, so you’ve most likely ironed out any major kinks. Once published with Wordclay, if you find a couple of errors, it’s no big deal. Since you have the control to both publish and discontinue your books through Wordclay, you’ll only be out the cost of publishing your book, which is a big fat $0.00.
Time and time again, writers of all walks find out the hard way that one of the best ways to find errors that you’ve overlooked is by reviewing your work in a new format. What better way to review your manuscript than in a compact, handy book? If you do find any errors, you can simply make the corrections and republish your book with Wordclay, which again, costs you nothing.
No matter how many times you need to republish your book, and then simply delete the previous version through Wordclay with a click of your mouse, just remember that the cost of publishing, zero dollars, multiplied two (or four or ten) is still zero dollars.
Class dismissed.
Angie
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zoeforce | August 18, 2008 at 12:20 pm
That is wonderful!!!
I’ve been working out the kinks of my first novel, and find it very difficult to keep track of what is in one chapter to another one. Each chapter is 20 pages long, and I am trying to weed out redundancy. I have all the work saved in Word, saving each chapter as a seperate document. I would benefit from seeing it in a book format before it is ready to be published to the public.
Even big publishing giants mess up the editing. For one example, when I read Stephen King books I always find errors. Being top dog doesn’t mean error free.
Thanks for sharing the tutorial! ;-)
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angiekp | August 19, 2008 at 10:32 am
Glad to help! Yeah, it seems that there are a handful of errors in most books, even the big names. But, now, you can see your work in a new light and work out any kinks during this “dress rehearsal.”