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Jun. 20th, 2003 12:25 amGetting started on The Book. So many questions to ask, from the trivial to the critical. Publishers are at this point my least concern, having gotten a feel for the market and recognized that It'll Be A While, I need to sit down and start figuring out how to collect more than four hundred entries into a book, and keep it looking good. I waffle between Letter size and half-Letter (hardcover or paperback), and I expect I will right up until I have _all_ of the Weeklies inserted and can get an estimate of page-count.
I don't know if I want to have each entry start on its own page, or just string them together one after the other.
I don't know if I should leave space for annotation on each of them.
I don't know what to _call_ this book.
I don't know if I'm going to be able to get the digital images which started to show up late in the series into the book, even if I can find them (I don't have them, that's for certain)
I don't know quite how to make InDesign do what it wants. So far, though, it sucks a hell of a lot less than PM and Quark did when I tried using them back in high school. (I was making a better living through borrowing my old work's software at the time, so no manuals then.)
Having gone through and carefully renamed all the files last weekend, I look back now and I don't know what possessed me to do something so utterly trivial. I'm guessing it was meditative.
I do know that it's going to be wonderful to read all of these pieces. I'll have to, too, since each and every one of them will need to be reformatted, spell-checked, and otherwise cleaned up. I think I've chosen a fitting project. I hope I'm worthy of the task.
I don't know if I want to have each entry start on its own page, or just string them together one after the other.
I don't know if I should leave space for annotation on each of them.
I don't know what to _call_ this book.
I don't know if I'm going to be able to get the digital images which started to show up late in the series into the book, even if I can find them (I don't have them, that's for certain)
I don't know quite how to make InDesign do what it wants. So far, though, it sucks a hell of a lot less than PM and Quark did when I tried using them back in high school. (I was making a better living through borrowing my old work's software at the time, so no manuals then.)
Having gone through and carefully renamed all the files last weekend, I look back now and I don't know what possessed me to do something so utterly trivial. I'm guessing it was meditative.
I do know that it's going to be wonderful to read all of these pieces. I'll have to, too, since each and every one of them will need to be reformatted, spell-checked, and otherwise cleaned up. I think I've chosen a fitting project. I hope I'm worthy of the task.
