Iterations
During Covid-19 isolation I've been working on a book about my artwork, kind of a memoir.
It's been an intriguing, totally engrossing and challenging project, wondering if my writing held up, scrolling through zillions of photos, wondering if they were high enough resolution, figuring out how to use BookWright on Blurb.
I started out taping photos and text into a large notebook. I wanted to get a sense of how it flowed together.
Next I went through several cartridges of computer ink printing up a regular size version and then a small book-like version.
People recommended Blurb as a good site for self-publishing, so I logged on and, for me, went through the excruciating and lengthy process of learning how to get pictures on a page, how to import text from my documents, how to move things around, how to amend and correct copy.
I ordered my first book as a test, realizing that this was less expensive than printing it myself--and definitely nicer. This is magazine size.
But I wanted to see what a smaller size would look like and I'd considerably changed and added content. As Jess had suggested, I enlarged the photos, then ordered another test book.
And just yesterday, I ordered yet another--with matte instead of glossy pages, incorporating some of my stories from the storytelling group and Sam's great photos of my furniture. I'm excited to see this one. Each iteration is an improvement. Will I ever finish?
Here is my wonderful first editor!
