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WRITING: BLOG2BOOK project – Done!!!
Thursday, January 18, 2007
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WRITING: BLOG2BOOK project – Lulu looks cheaper and easier
Wednesday, January 17, 2007Nearing the end. I think I’m done. Maybe?
Kinda exciting!
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WRITING: BLOG2BOOK project – Aachanon Publishing?
Tuesday, January 16, 2007Starting to circle in on Aachanon Publishing for about $800!
Any feedback?
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WRITING: BLOG2BOOK project – Redid April
Friday, January 12, 2007Arghhhhh!
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WRITING: BLOG2BOOK project – Finished Second pass
Thursday, January 11, 2007Argh! Ugly, ugly, uggggly. I am toying with the idea of a table of contents and eliminating a lot of duplicate dates to save space. Argh!
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WRITING: BLOG2BOOK project – Finished first pass edit
Tuesday, January 9, 2007Was ugly.
Lessons Learned: Best done in small bites. Monthly?
Lesson Learned: Quotes should have the spell check attribute turned off.
Lesson Learned: Jargon should have spell check turned off.
Lesson Learned: probably shouldn’t have tried this.
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WRITING: BLOG2BOOK project – Finished December!!! Yeahhhh!!!
Monday, January 8, 2007December went pretty quickly. Spell check and edit by Tuesday. Editorial annotations on Wednesday. Publish soon after that. I have the cover already. Kinda exciting!
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WRITING: BLOG2BOOK project – Finished October
Saturday, January 6, 2007Went slow today!
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WRITING: BLOG2BOOK project – Finished September
Friday, January 5, 2007September went pretty slow.
Still on pace but it was no fun this “month”. Don’t know why but it felt “not fun” and “not exciting”?
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WRITING: BLOG2BOOK project – Finished August
Thursday, January 4, 2007August went.
I’m getting excited since I think having the book will be a hoot.
Still on track for spell check and edit by Tuesday. Editorial annotations on Wednesday. Publish soon after that..
Kinda exciting!
One lesson learned is that I should tinyurl every link. If someone is reading the book and wants to poke in the link from the book, it will be much easier to poke in 6 alphanumerics than any other url. The alternative would be a companion web page to the book with the urls indexed to page number.
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WRITING: BLOG2BOOK project – LULU shipped my first order
Wednesday, January 3, 2007Now that’s kinda exciting!
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WRITING: BLOG2BOOK project taught me, and hopefully others, that print on demand works
Wednesday, January 3, 2007http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north511.html
Reflecting on 35 Years of Marriage
by Gary North
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My first book, Marx’s Religion of Revolution, had been published by a tiny publishing house, Craig Press, in 1968. It sold for $2.75 in paperback. In today’s money, that was about $16. Today, I typeset my own books on a $25 software program. I can post them on my website in about 90 seconds. I can sell them or give them away. I can also have them printed, one copy at a time: print on demand. A digital system takes the order on-line, prints the book, collates it, binds it, wraps it, inserts it into a mailer, addresses it, and puts it in a pile for UPS to pick up. What is the total cost for a paperback the size of “Marx’s Religion”? Maybe $10, plus postage. I will get a royalty payment sent to me every few months. If I ordered 3,000 copies, I would probably pay $2 each. I don’t need a book publisher to publish a book. Neither do you.
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It’s interesting to see my finding, (you CAN do a “book” cheaply and easily), also realized by a more experienced “real writer”.
It’s as revolutionary as the Gutenberg Bible. The publishing world’s business model just exploded.
imho.
Kinda exciting!
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WRITING: BLOG2BOOK project – The books arrived!
Wednesday, January 3, 2007Mom (1)
F + J & N (2)
JD (1)
PG (1)
SJS (1)
MIx1 (1)
Office (1)
Home (1)
+ five spare
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WRITING: BLOG2BOOK project – I’m afraid to open the box!
Wednesday, January 3, 2007For those befuddled souls who actually made the mistake of asking for a copy, I am composing a suitable dedication. Hey what good is a “first (perhaps only) edition” if it doesn’t have something personal in it written from the author to you. Right?
Maybe by tomorrow morning I’ll be ready to suck it up and peek.
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WRITING: BLOG2BOOK project – Screwed up April
Wednesday, January 3, 2007Arghh!
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WRITING: BLOG2BOOK project – Opened the box
Wednesday, January 3, 2007Kinda exciting!
To see the product of so much work.
:-)
Now we’ll see what my Mom thinks. I wrote the inscription for her copy.
First thoughts?
Blogs don’t transfer well from the “digital world” to the printed form.
It’s a hoot being a pioneer.
I’d use a bigger font. I’d edit some more stuff out. I probably would NOT do it. ;-) Or at least only order one to tune one’s mistakes.
It’s inspiring in how easy it was to make a fool out of myself. But taking risks is how we learn!
?:-|
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WRITING: BLOG2BOOK project – writing inscriptions is hard work
Wednesday, January 3, 2007I’m just trying to channel and visualize Pat Sajack and Brenda Lee.
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WRITING: BLOG2BOOK project – Finished July
Wednesday, January 3, 2007July went pretty quickly.
Interesting that I didn’t realize WORDPRESS pages the monthly view. Wasn’t obvious to me. I have to take care in making my weekly backups.
Some fellow bloggers suggest that the book should be a “director’s cut” that fixes typos, add annotations, and edits it for clarity. I even had a pro editor offer to work with me.
At this pace, I should be ready for spell check and edit by Tuesday. Editorial annotations on Wednesday. Publish soon after that. I have the cover already.
Kinda exciting!
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WRITING: BLOG2BOOK project – Finished June
Tuesday, January 2, 2007Argh! Some very good, some very bad. I think I’m going to edit. The typos, misspellings, and bad grammar is just terrible. What was I looking at. Argh. Months are tougher now. More content.
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WRITING: Blog2book update
Tuesday, January 2, 2007Did May. Extra time required because WordPress was missing a lot of the month. But “belt and suspenders”, I had backup. ;-)
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WRITING: BLOG to BOOK tribulation
Monday, January 1, 2007I just finished formatting, but not editing, my first three months of my blog. It’s embarrassing how badly I wrote and spelled. I am sore tempted to “fix” it. But, I am resisting. It’s an art form. Raw and powerful. 25% done. But, I am bored and need a break.
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WRITING: What my blog’s voice … …
Saturday, November 4, 2006http://www.webpronews.com/blogtalk/blogtalk/
wpn-58-20061103TheSoundOfYour
BloggingVoice.html
The Sound Of Your Blogging Voice
Steven Bradley
Expert Author
Published: 2006-11-03
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“To gain your own voice, forget about having it heard. Become a saint of your own province and your own consciousness.”
-Allen Ginsberg
A good writing voice can carry most any idea for a blog post. And a poor writing voice can ruin even the best of ideas. So what sound does your writing voice make?
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… … it has to be a whine! ;-)
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WRITING: Ambition and success thru writing?
Monday, October 9, 2006http://www.webpronews.com/expertarticles/expertarticles/wpn-62-20061009GetPublishedtoGetAhead.html
Get Published To Get Ahead
Gerry McGovern
Expert Author
Published: 2006-10-09
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If you are ambitious, you must publish the important things you do today. Publishing is about visibility. It’s about getting your name in front of those who matter to you. If you do something great and don’t create a record of what you did, did you really do it? As far as the Web is concerned, you didn’t, and the Web is becoming the global memory. So you’ve got to get it down – get it recorded.
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Not very likely for fowgs!
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WRITING: Advice to new bloggers
Saturday, September 30, 2006http://wheredidfreedomgo.blogspot.com/
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I have been thinking about starting a blog for a long, long time now and I have finally started one. It’s only been up for about a week and it is my first blog, I don’t know if for sure if I will keep it or not yet. I would like to know what you folks think of it, it is a libertarian blog, so I thought there would be no better place to introduce it and get some feedback. Feel free to post comments on the blog and in the thread to let me know what you think, I would appreciate it.
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I’m blogging also.
I’d suggest that you put up a FEEDBURNER and FEEDBLITZ for your blog. FEEDBURNER creates, and for free, gives you some insight into your readership. Then stuff that rss feed into FEEDBLITZ that gives you, also for free, a once a day email off all your posts that day. I have some other things I’ve tried, but those are the two things I tell new bloggers to do before they create to much content.
I use WORDPRESS; it’s free. And, have a had two burps that cost me some pearls. I understand that it’s not uncommon occurrence.
SO, I try to create my post in a text editor, save it locally, and then cut’n’paste it over. The posting online is seductive but you can lose stuff.
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WRITING: Blog 2 Book
Friday, September 29, 2006Since I always wanted to be a published author. (My mom will get a kick out of it.) I’m looking into the Blog 2 Book options. None of the advertised sites make it as easy as it sounds. I was really hoping for “here’s my blog. here’s my credit card” and “thank you for your order. here’s your book.” Not that I am too lazy, but who needs to add another “spinning plate” to the ones I am already trying to keep spinning? Suggestions welcome.
WRITING: TYVM … “thank you very much”
Monday, September 18, 2006Sarcasm!
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