Eight Lunches, Second Draft, DONE!

Eight Lunches, Second Draft, DONE! Ive been quiet more than usual on this blog for a few reasons: Going on a 30 day road trip, including speaking and to a conference, with my family, left me little/no time to write. Ive been ramping up on the product and sales of a new product for university career centers, which has been very exciting. Ive been training my dad as hes been learning about JibberJobber, the new university career center system, and everything else that has to do with my work world. I have a number of other things going on, but one that Im so excited to share is that I FINALLY got the second edition of Eight Lunches, my third book, DONE! DONE DONE DONE! On my Jason Alba blog I announced this project back in May of 2010, and asked if anyone wanted to critique the first draft. I thought Id get like well, no one.  But 100 comments later, I found myself sending the book out to lots of amazing people. And then I started getting feedback.  And it was literally overwhelming. The feedback was great, ranging from spelling/grammar to concept/flow.  Getting that much feedback from that many people overwhelmed me to the point where I didnt even know how to consume all the feedback, much less act on it. So it stalled, and I went on to other things. But this was always somewhere near the top of my mind, and I was anxious to get it done. The timing finally happened, and here we are, with the second edition done. I will crowdsource feedback again (I just made that decision this very second), but will only ask for a paragraph or two of thoughts  preferably  critical/negative, which will help me tighten it up more. If you want a copy of this second draft, please leave a comment on this post. Im excited to get this far I now feel freed up to work on my fourth, and I think most exciting book more on that later! Eight Lunches, Second Draft, DONE! Ive been quiet more than usual on this blog for a few reasons: Going on a 30 day road trip, including speaking and to a conference, with my family, left me little/no time to write. Ive been ramping up on the product and sales of a new product for university career centers, which has been very exciting. Ive been training my dad as hes been learning about JibberJobber, the new university career center system, and everything else that has to do with my work world. I have a number of other things going on, but one that Im so excited to share is that I FINALLY got the second edition of Eight Lunches, my third book, DONE! DONE DONE DONE! On my Jason Alba blog I announced this project back in May of 2010, and asked if anyone wanted to critique the first draft. I thought Id get like well, no one.  But 100 comments later, I found myself sending the book out to lots of amazing people. And then I started getting feedback.  And it was literally overwhelming. The feedback was great, ranging from spelling/grammar to concept/flow.  Getting that much feedback from that many people overwhelmed me to the point where I didnt even know how to consume all the feedback, much less act on it. So it stalled, and I went on to other things. But this was always somewhere near the top of my mind, and I was anxious to get it done. The timing finally happened, and here we are, with the second edition done. I will crowdsource feedback again (I just made that decision this very second), but will only ask for a paragraph or two of thoughts  preferably  critical/negative, which will help me tighten it up more. If you want a copy of this second draft, please leave a comment on this post. Im excited to get this far I now feel freed up to work on my fourth, and I think most exciting book more on that later!