Well I guess it’s time to start breaking out the champagne as I’ve got a load of posts to start writing. Part of the reason I’ve been so quiet over on BK is simply because I’ve actually dedicated every conceivable waking hour over completing Broken Kode | Season One. What’s that you ask? Well I originally mentioned the thought way back in August. Those that have been reading BK for a while now know that I generally have a good deal on my plate, however you should be aware that I complete everything I start, no matter how long it takes me. I won’t release it until I’m 100% happy with it and that is where the problem lies. Being a perfectionist in my personal work means that things take time to get sorted out.

I’m going to be writing a slew of posts about this topic as it really does merit the attention. Season One is the title of my first book, based on the first year of posts at Broken Kode. The reason behind the book came about for a couple of reasons. The first was the fact that I can’t be sure that I will be blogging forever. As much as I’d like to believe that I’ll be blogging to the day that I die, well that’s not a really realistic statement. No one knows what the future holds and so I’d like to capture these years of words that I have spent the time and effort to formulate into something that’s solid and tangible. Something I can look at in 20 years time and smile at. So collecting all my posts into a book sounded like a damn good idea to me. This was going to be a 1 week job where I would simply download everything and then just format the posts ever so slightly so that I’ve got them in one location.

After I began playing around, my design and curious nature took over. I started thinking about cool formats, cool layouts to play around with ideas just kept popping into my head, and I instinctively reacted to them. What I hadn’t actually factored into the equation the sheer task that I was actually proposing on doing. See after I started playing with the layout, putting the posts in and just having the title in there, just wasn’t enough. I started adding more information to the entire package. This included what category the post was under, how many comments and the final cherry on top, commentary for every single post. As all this material was being compiled part of the fun was going through the motions and trials of getting something put together ready to get published.

The ironic thing is that the blog was to be used as a method to catalog my journey to get published, only for those posts to be used as the first book I get published. That is what then made me stop and consider what it was I was doing. This was my first book. Any which way I cut it, that’s the first thing I get published, that will be on Amazon, ready for anyone to go out and buy. It’s a book with my name on the spine. It had to be perfect. It had to be something that was worth while. Something I wouldn’t mind slapping down some cash and reading through it.

Now I’m going to be honest, the first 6 months of the book are very hit and miss. There are some great posts in there, and there are some sheer garbage. I don’t mind saying that. No one starts off at the top. People build their style, build their voices. This book shows the progression in no small way.

So how could I enhance this book so it’s something someone wouldn’t feel cheated into buying and actually enjoying? Why would anyone want to buy it in the first place, it’s all found online in my archives? Well I’ll tell you all about that in the next post.