I’ve ordered the printing for the first Edaith Essential Skills Series guide — Problem Solver.
I started Problem Solver back in November. It’s been a long process of deep work, reduction, revising and polishing. During one round of editing I took out a section of drafted material that took many weeks to compose, including accompanying diagrams. But too much information is as bad as having no information, so it needed to be done.
My number one priority has been making something useful and informative for the reader. Something that you want to pick up again and again. Not to try and say everything possible to prove myself as an authority on the topic. Flicking through an Edaith guide should feel as easy and pleasant as scrolling a social media feed. There should be novelty and lightness.
Making the work concise, digestible and yet well researched is such a challenge. It would have been easier to have had a 250 or 300 page book. But the usefulness comes from having gone deep on the topics with reputable sources, spending days reading and then carefully reconstructing ideas so they can be more easily understood.
The editing and refining phase took as much time as the writing. When I completed the draft back in April, I thought it was done. So much has changed since then; I could have never imagined. I went from cutting sections to obsessing over hyphens.
But now it’s done. Not perfect, but (hopefully) enough to delight.
Tina Gallico 