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I sent the first four documents of the BFA out this morning, and true to form, as soon as I sent the first email, a question that's been bugging me resolved itself, causing me some small delay as I went back and made appropriate changes in the files I'd just sent off.
That's what I hate about "rolling" submittals, where you're supposed to send in documents as you finish them, or its close cousin, "partial" submittals, where clients want you to send in some chunk of work prior to the actual deadline. I find it takes almost as much time to finalize an intermediate submittal as it does the final job, with the added inconvenience of my invariably finding some nuance near the actual end of the assignment that causes me extra work to go back and fix.
It's not easy estimating the size of the BFA in terms of words. In terms of pages, I now have 65 pages left, and only tomorrow and Thursday to work on them, as Drew is off to Ogden, Utah for some kind of paintball tournament this weekend. Today's 27 pages weighed in at about 2700 target words, and if the word "density" on those pages is typical, that means there ought to be about 6500 words left in the job.
Unlike today, however, I plan not to go into the store tomorrow afternoon, which ought to help me out.
The county was out on our dirt road this afternoon, just as I was planning to bike to the store. The crew was spraying a magnesium chloride solution on the dirt surface, ostensibly to help suppress dust during the upcoming hot, dry part of the year, but creating a uniformly muddy surface for now. I just knew if I did take my bike down that road, I'd more than likely get a snoot full of chemically treated mud (there are no mud guards on the bike, which means I'd also get a layer of dirt applied to my clothing from the rear). Once at the store, I felt really tired, and had a lot of trouble concentrating (doing things like making change).
I was going to go to bed early tonight, but an insane desire to finish the document I was working on kept me going, adding 700 words to the day's bag before I quit.
And now that I'm done, I am going to spend some serious time examining the inside of my eyeballs.
Cheers...
That's what I hate about "rolling" submittals, where you're supposed to send in documents as you finish them, or its close cousin, "partial" submittals, where clients want you to send in some chunk of work prior to the actual deadline. I find it takes almost as much time to finalize an intermediate submittal as it does the final job, with the added inconvenience of my invariably finding some nuance near the actual end of the assignment that causes me extra work to go back and fix.
It's not easy estimating the size of the BFA in terms of words. In terms of pages, I now have 65 pages left, and only tomorrow and Thursday to work on them, as Drew is off to Ogden, Utah for some kind of paintball tournament this weekend. Today's 27 pages weighed in at about 2700 target words, and if the word "density" on those pages is typical, that means there ought to be about 6500 words left in the job.
Unlike today, however, I plan not to go into the store tomorrow afternoon, which ought to help me out.
The county was out on our dirt road this afternoon, just as I was planning to bike to the store. The crew was spraying a magnesium chloride solution on the dirt surface, ostensibly to help suppress dust during the upcoming hot, dry part of the year, but creating a uniformly muddy surface for now. I just knew if I did take my bike down that road, I'd more than likely get a snoot full of chemically treated mud (there are no mud guards on the bike, which means I'd also get a layer of dirt applied to my clothing from the rear). Once at the store, I felt really tired, and had a lot of trouble concentrating (doing things like making change).
I was going to go to bed early tonight, but an insane desire to finish the document I was working on kept me going, adding 700 words to the day's bag before I quit.
And now that I'm done, I am going to spend some serious time examining the inside of my eyeballs.
Cheers...
