One more time.
I love rock music. There are few I envy but near the top of the list is the front man of a hard rocking band who calls out “One more time” because he feels how much the boys behind him want to hit it again.
Well, I get to hit it again.
Just when I thought my work on ‘The 53rd Parallel‘ was over as a writer of it, I discover I have a final author’s duty to take a close read of the ARC preview edition, the novel published as a book for the first time. ARC’s are printed in very limited numbers for two purposes–as an Advanced Reader Copy to garner reviews, and to be read for last chance edits to improve a sentence or correct a layout error.
I have been teaching creativity and entrepreneurship to Duke undergrads for 12 years and we spend lots of time exploring the impact that shifting perspectives will have on an idea or opportunity. They learn that they will see the patterns of an opportunity emerging differently if they are part of a mainstream view or if they take an outsiders view.
I anticipate the reading of these stories I have written and read so many times over the years will often sound different to my ear when read in an actual book, rather than on a computer screen in a Word doc.
And so, with energy, “One more time”.