Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
Blogging has been a bit quiet the past week or so, for one simple reason: I’m doing monotonous work on the book right now that doesn’t lend itself to many discussions or calls for help.
What am I doing, you ask? Adding every tour date U2 has played into the manuscript. It’s terribly boring work, [...]
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
I assume you know that U2 Diary is going to be a series of date-based entries describing the history of U2, all the important dates and events that tell the band’s story. It’s not a running narrative like the official book, U2 by U2; in format, it much more closely resembles U2 Live - A [...]
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Saturday, October 20th, 2007
… until I have to submit the manuscript for U2 Diary to Omnibus Press. Yikes! January 2, 2008, is just around the corner.
When I think about it as 2-and-a-half-months, it seems like nowhere near enough time. When I think about it as 10+ weeks, it seems a little better. But I prefer 75 days — [...]
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Sunday, July 15th, 2007
I was over in Seattle all of last week and didn’t get any work done on the book. Answer Guy is now here visiting at Casa McGee, but he called it a night early and I’ve been writing like a maniac.
Somehow I got stuck tonight on early December, 2002 — the Heart of America Tour [...]
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Saturday, June 23rd, 2007
How about a little background into the research and writing process, and then an update on tonight’s mini-milestone? Sound good? Cool.
I continue to re-read every U2-related book on my bookshelf. It’s a long-but-enjoyable process, and has really helped me remember some interesting facts from the old days that had slipped my mind.
I’m doing this [...]
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