I’m full of vim and have set
about building my new platform – got caught up in template design on blogs and
Twitter; I now have two blogs so I’ll keep one for general life and focus the
other on poetry and the building of the book for publication but there might be
some crossover but no matter. This is fun. I can’t quite get the hang of
Google+ but I suppose it’ll come as I get used to the territory. Technology is
not my field and I only know what I need to know so building this document for
the Smashwords formatting will
definitely tax this poor old brain…but I look forward to the day I can push my
notes on how I did it in a dumbed-down version – other writers will love me.
I’ve already came up against a wall, where the advice says to ‘uncheck most of
the boxes’ in a Word setting, which
made me bluster, ‘MOST? WHICH boxes exactly?’
I’m glad I’m not in a hurry,
or that I haven’t left this to the last minute – this must be the first time in
my life that I’m preparing to be prepared! Usually I leave everything to the
last minute and tell myself that I work well with deadlines, and I do on the
writing front. But in technical territory it’s best not to do that, so every
day I read a little, think a lot and put it all away. There are only about five
poems that need real work so by the time they’re done and I’ve chosen the order
I should know what I’m doing…I know how to do the nuclear thing, the pasting
into Notepad to clear the document of
Word formatting, and then to past the
clean document back to Word again and
begin adding only what is necessary and in the right way. I’m almost there.
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