Cal Newport

This is the source guide for making your life so interesting that your phone will seem less exciting.

I mean, the final line edits, so that's like we've – you go back and forth a lot with writing.

You kind of – as you write, you go back and forth with your editor until you get something that kind of works.

And then there's like sort of higher level notes of like –

work on that here, like chapter by chapter, we need something here.

This doesn't make sense.

Maybe cut this.

And then you get to sort of the line edit piece of the first round of editing where your editor will actually go through and, you know, make particular, let's cut this sentence.

This isn't clear to me, you know, those types of things.

And that's where you do your final, like out loud read of sections two to really try to get the language working.

you hope that's what leads to what's then called the manuscript acceptance.

Like, okay, now we have a manuscript.

It works.

There's still a lot of editing that happens after this because you still go on the copy editing where you have like professional copy editors getting into like the precise grammar and languages and word repetitions and fact checking.

And we have a professional footnote editor to come in and get all the end notes in the right format.

So there's a lot more editing to come, but it becomes much more lower level and production focused.

So anyways,

I'm hoping to be done with that by the end of the week this comes out.

When this airs, I'll actually be on my way to Asheville where I'm going to hang out with friend of the show, Brad Stolberg, and I'm going to edit in the morning.

I'm staying in some mountain lodge up there in Asheville.