First world problem Have your name taken off it.
Insert some cartoon drawings. It makes for enjoyable pacing.
I can't believe I'm going to get to say: them's the breaks
Could you add more formal breaks where those informal breaks had been?
Take potassium iodide and stop drinking milk for a while.
Are you planning to advocate on this? Surely you can be more eloquent and persuasive on the subject than anybody else involved in the project.
Write your own typesetting system. Make sure it is both groundbreakingly brilliant and painfully daft.
Iiiiii want my liiiineebreaks pleeeeease..
Don't projects like this usually/always have a standard set of guidelines on indents and other features?
Put in subheads where you want a more substantial break. It doesn't matter if several paragraphs in a row all have new subheads.
Get that special chalk and make a line of chalk at each of the line breaks. Editors can't cross the special chalk.
||A while back I expressed my strong disagreement with Charlie Stross' diatribe against steampunk. I still think he is both hypocritical and wrong, but having just read my first Cherie Priest novel, Dreadnought, I suddenly have a fair bit of sympathy. Dear god what an awful bit of historical absurdity and Southern apologetics in an otherwise mediocre but fast paced bit of forgettable adventure fiction.>|
OT: I put this here: news for book people.
Peter Howard, master of Serendipity Books in Berkeley, passed away a day or two ago. One remembrance here. For those acquainted with the shop and interested, there was this lengthy article about a year ago.
Peter's two degrees of separation from me; some very dear friends spent a great deal of time with him in the last year. Serendipity's for sale, if you have a few couple hundred thou or mil at your disposal.
All honor and praise to Peter, and sadness.
Someday soon, in-the-cloud personalization will combine with processing power surplus, text and metadata scraping, and tex typesetting, so that a user viewing any content can seamlessly shift from their preferred layout to others, like that- or those- desired by the author/s, without any bother. Of course, shortly thereafter humanity will be wiped out as collateral damage in the ensuing war between the semantic web AIs and those deriving from derivative trading bots.
Someday soon, in-the-cloud personalization will combine with processing power surplus, text and metadata scraping, and tex typesetting, so that a user viewing any content can seamlessly shift from their preferred layout to others, like that- or those- desired by the author/s, without any bother. Of course, shortly thereafter humanity will be wiped out as collateral damage in the ensuing war between the semantic web AIs and those deriving from derivative trading bots.
Of course, shortly thereafter humanity will be wiped out as collateral damage in the ensuing war between the semantic web AIs and those deriving from derivative trading bots.
Except for Michale Lewis who will write the book about it.
Does nosflow really have nothing to add to this conversation? Seriously?
I wrote the colleague in charge of editing, and asked if there was any flexibility. He was wary about having to re-do the pagination for the book, so we worked out a compromise where I used up the whitespace at the end of my chapter adding a few extra subheadings. I found him to be very easy to work with, and I'm very happy with the compromise.
It's a chapter on why you have to take a math class in college, and it's hard for me to read my writing when it gets to be a year old or so. It comes across alternately awkwardly chummy and awkwardly Slate-glib-ish. Oh well.
20: Nth level of hell: Forced to read your own writings.
N+1st level of hell: Forced to listen to your own speeches/presentations.
21.1: Yes, and that's why teachers that require second drafts are evil.