Yippee for me. I met my weekend deadline of proofing the galley for Caring Lessons. I get to see and approve the corrections yet, but that's it. In all, there were only 22 paragraphs that were not indented correctly--something that can happen in the typesetting process. Everything else was in place--dedication, acknowledgments, TOC... Having the …
Continue reading Galley Proofed – Hard Copy Tip Helped A Lot!
I feel a bit silly announcing that in 15 weeks Caring Lessons should come out, because I'm still not finished proofing the galley. I've gotten totally sidetracked with family stuff, fun things that make me stop and reflect on the meaning of life, death, and retirement--and about everything else that confronts us on our journeys. …
Thanks to a tip I got yesterday from my blog mentor Helen, (see comments on last post), I printed off a hard copy of the galley for Caring Lessons. It is much easier to spot things like uneven paragraph indents on the printout. So I'm thankful for the hint to print and for the advice …
Being new to the process of publishing, I didn't know (or didn't remember) that I'd get the galley to proof. But I did and now I'm working on it. Caring Lessons is now typeset, and I'm very happy with how it looks. My publisher, Deep River Books, has done everything I've suggested. Imagine my grin …
If all goes as planned, Caring Lessons will come out on October 1, 2010, 17 weeks from today. (It may even come out a little sooner, but I'll do my countdown on the original projection.) So each Friday from now on, I'll be adding another excerpt from one or two chapters. See today's excerpt from …
I'm often asked if I miss nursing. Yes, I do. I don't miss getting up early and going to work. Or the evening and weekend work while teaching. But I think when you're a nurse, nursing becomes a part of you. As much a part as your hand or heart. Last week, I had an …
All Nature Sings: A Spiritual Journey of Place is a beautifully illustrated new memoir by a friend of mine--Carol J. Rottman. If you like nature and a warm, genuine voice, you will like what Carol describes as a "travel journal--not to exotic parts of the globe or to scenes of known beauty," but just to …
So today I have learned, all by myself, how to add "child" pages under a "parent" page on this blog. Note my spiffy work by clicking "Excerpts" on the header. This "learning" only took two hours. I say this to encourage any illiterates like me that learning is possible. Plus, if the WordPress help menus …
Writing Tip: Read a "how to" book. The best book on writing memoir--I've read many--is Tristine Rainer's Your Life as Story: Discovering the 'New Autobiography' and Writing Memoir as Literature. I didn't discover this book until my second year of writing. Maybe that was okay because I had to do a lot of writing to …
Writing tip: Get motivated. Ready? Read Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life. This was the second book I read on my way to becoming a writer, and I loved it. It has to do with getting your words on the page. And Lamott writes her “instructions” with humor. You can't …
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