Fine-tuning that print file takes forever, but the aim is to produce something that looks professional, rather than something we simply rushed into print. So here goes:
Page numbers: Continue reading Journal News 2015 – Step 11 – fixing the print file
We’re lucky. We’ve already created two journals on Createspace. Our intent is to make this next one match and improve on the last – learning from our mistakes. Continue reading Journal News 2015 – Step 10 – format for print
Do you want to submit something to an agent or publisher? Do you want to self-publish your instructions on how to deal with difficult people? Or do you want to create a small booklet for your grandson as a Christmas gift? Chances are, even if none of these is you, you do want your writing to be read, by someone, sometime. If so, you want it to print prettily enough that they read the words instead of just looking at the paper. You want to “print pretty.” I’m no expert, but here are some ideas that just might help.
Continue reading Me Print Pretty One Day – taken from Sheila’s talk 09/20/2015
Around 20 people attended September’s meeting, perhaps encouraged by the promise of a photo at the end.
We had planned for two critiques but this month, but that didn’t work out so, inspired by David Sedaris’ Me Talk Pretty One Day, Sheila gave a talk on Me Print Pretty. Notes from her talk are included below.
This is where the edits slow down. We have a doc that’s formatted mostly correctly, and most of the automatic edits have been done; so now I have to read it. Actually, now I get to read it! It’s wonderful. It’s going to be a fantastic book. And I’m proud to be part of it! But while I read, here are some things I have to do besides just fixing typos and tenses. Continue reading Journal News 2015 – Step 6 – turning all those entries into a journal
I’m still cleaning up that file – lots of details to look out for: Continue reading Journal News 2015 – Step 5 – file cleaning
Making the document readable sounded easy, but it’s not. Each entry poses its own problems, so now I’m going through each entry, one by one, opening the original files to compare with the new, and looking for: Continue reading Journal News 2015 – Step 4 – fixing author intent & accident
I now have a massive messy file. What shall I do with it? Continue reading Journal News 2015 – Step 3 – style
The deadline for journal submissions was midnight last night. Ron spent vast amounts of time yesterday and today, ensuring all submissions were uploaded to our Dropbox. I spend all morning adding those submissions sent only to me, and mix-and-matching the sections. So now it’s time to start creating
For anyone who’s interested, here’s step 1. Continue reading And so it begins… Journal News 2015 – Step 1