I wrote this book in a hurried manner, the main source being partial sketches and outlines of stories that I wrote in 2015 and 2016 anonymously published on another message board. At that time I was re-drafting my second novel that I just finished. That book took a full year from conception through to the end of my first final draft and ultimately it wasn’t published. I experimented with using the message board where I published the short sketches to see what the resulting effects would be and wasn’t that keen on quality, half-interested in writing them, so those sketches didn’t turn out so well. I did learn though the power of social media through that task.
Now, a few years later, I decided to give those old sketches I carelessly tossed to the message board a second chance and this time I sprinted all the way through them, starting on April 16th, 2020 and finishing on April 30th, 2020, rewriting them on my laptop computer. Then, on May 1st, 2020, I did a hurried proof-reading, using Word 10 as an editor guide, fixing a lot of the mistakes but there were many more. Personal reasons persuaded me to publish that poorly edited version immediately. The whole thing was done with my utmost top speed.
This version here, is the done and final version, edited slowly starting on May 3rd, 2020 and ending on May 6th, 2020. I found some errors that I missed yet once again and so re-edited this book a second time with higher care from May 7th, 2020 through the early morning hours of May 10th, 2020 well before sunrise. I am fairly sure nearly all of the mistakes are now fixed. 248 pages and 90,000 words long, this book is about the same size as that unpublished novel I finished in 2015.
This book here “37 Short Stories: the correct version” is done and I won’t be re-editing it anymore unless it is a matter of saving the Earth or something similar. Considering that this book took 16 days to write and 5 days to edit, I think this some sort of personal record. Keep this book free, a souvenir. I liked all the compliments and encouragement along the way, thank you.
Signed,
Fed Starving