Ruthless

Well, not that ruthless to be honest, but firm!  Andrew and I have just spent the day whittling down our shortlisted 550 images to around 200 for the next book. This is sooooo hard!  Obviously we have to work to publisher's guidelines - 20,000 words ish, 200 images ish. yet people have lent us so many wonderful pictures and ephemera it is really hard to whittle it all down to those that essentially add to the story. we had 7 hours together to get it done and the time just vanished like sand in an hourglass. Funny - it never goes that quickly in my day job! So - our apologies to those that lost out, well done to those that are in. Now we must refine it in all senses of the word.  Polishing text, editing pictures, writing informative captions - all the stuff the reader will probably never notice, but would if it wasn't done.  Nose to the grindstone time again!