Sorry for the scant blogging of late, but the writing process for our book has been all-consuming the past few weeks. It has been exhausting and sometimes frustrating, but also very satisfying. The entire book has been like a giant puzzle—where to put what, what to include, what to leave out, how can we tell a certain story, etc. Every caption has a word maximum and time and time again we would go past that, it felt like we spent more time cutting than composing! And in the end there would be this great caption, but we would feel kind of sad about what had been omitted. Sometimes we would have the greatest story in mind but no photo that we could use to bring that story to the book. Conversely we have some amazing photos that we simply don’t know anything about. Like this one:
Adorable right? Look at the bell on that cow! But what story would it contribute? Who is that? When was it? So onto the cutting room floor it went so to speak.
But now we are super excited about our blog’s role! This is the place! The place for all the great photos we couldn’t include. The place for the long babbling stories we couldn’t cram into our limited text. The place to expand upon things that ARE in the book. We might have finished writing the book, but we are just getting started here on the blog. The ultimate companion to what we think is going to be an incredible book.
But first, perhaps a small break. We truly are exhausted. So look for a post next week with a fascinating story or at least another great picture!
