Color knitting project: status report and request for help

So far...
For some time now,  I've been trying to work on a book about color knitting.  A lot got done. New ideas have been chased down and reduced to writing, projects have been done, instructions written, photos taken, illustrations drawn. Progress has been made!

Yet...
Despite the progress, it feels like the book is as far away as ever. Content takes a long time to reduce to writing, and illustration takes forever, but, that's not the problem: it's the same as writing blog posts.  Books, however, are not just content, but have a lot more moving parts.

It's partly these--organization, indexing, layout--which are dragging me down, down, down. Yet far worse: self-editing is impossible. If I wrote it wrong the first time, it'll stay wrong: I know what I meant, communicating is the challenge.

The real publishing world is no solace either. Deadlines rule.  For a person of such untidy habits as myself, that would be fantasy.

Meanwhile bad things are happening...
In the meanwhile, all these darned color knitting tricks are flapping around, increasingly anxious to get out.  Worse, I'm already starting to forget some of the stuff worked out oh-so-carefully over the past year+. When I caught sight of a sample a couple of days ago and couldn't quite remember the trick of it, the real worry started.
(Not to mention that new and shiny tricks are distracting me, like new and positively thrilling methods for making cabled fabric.)

So here's the compromise...
What's been worked out so far is going to be released as blog posts.  Maybe after the CONTENT gets out there, the ORGANIZATION could be a separate project.  In other words, maybe someday, somehow, the book will follow after the blog posts.

And here's the request...
You, my lovely readers, absolutely never hesitate to point out when instructions are unclear, or when a stitch is illustrated backwards.  The comments fill up pretty quick when I make a mistake!  Although embarrassing (HOW, I ask myself, could I have overlooked THAT?) your comments are tremendously valuable. Many posts have been corrected, edited and re-illustrated over the years, many thanks.*

If the book content comes out as blog posts first, mistakes will be less likely to survive into book form, especially if you'll keep sending corrections. Please? If I've missed something, if something is not making sense, if a stitch is illustrated mismounted, consider writing a comment or e-mail (techknittingAThotmail.com). Book errata are a terrible thing.

Finally...
even if I do get fatally off track and distracted, and no book ever comes out, at least some of the tricks will have escaped my head where they are currently batting around and driving me crazy. Plus all that effort so far, you know...

No guarantee this project is going to come out in any particular order or with any particular regularity. There's a backlog of other knitting posts, so it's not going to be all-color all the time, either.

However, at least some color-knitting stuff ought to come out in some way. Maybe together,  we'll all see where this is going?

See you soon, with some color knitting posts. Warm regards and thanks,
--TK

*Note: Sometimes (rarely) Blogger eats stuff--sometimes posts, sometimes edits, and, sadly, sometimes comments (especially, for some reason, duplicate comments).  If this has happened to a past comment by you, please accept my apologies.