ASSIGNMENT #2: Can it be done?
ASSIGNMENT #2: Can it be done?
WHAT IT WILL (hopefully) LOOK LIKE: Nice. What it looks like is very very important to me, from the cover design to the font to the illustrations. Tomorrow I will ask one of my very talented adult students if she's willing to design a cover and do some simple illustrations to accompany the text; if she's too busy, I have two other friends in mind. It will be a small, rather than large, book, divided into short sections rather than long chapters. It will be short rather than long--maybe 20 pages at most? It will not be in Times New Roman, but it won't be something odd like Comic Sans, either.
HOW MUCH HAVE I WRITTEN? Nothing yet, haha. But the sections are there in my head like sock drawer dividers, and the organization shouldn't be hard. I will probably agonise over what words to use. So I have a mental framework and plenty of content, but no words or illustrations yet.
WHEN DO I PLAN TO WRITE: Mmmmmm......it's probably good that this assignment forces me to think of the time issue right off the bat. I do not have a free day or even a good block of time on the horizon this month; that means I will be writing in the late evenings, when I'm not too tired. Hopefully I can get to sleep afterwards.
WHAT AM I WORRIED ABOUT: The technical stuff. I'm thinking that I do not need to have Microsoft Word to make nice PDF pages---right? I really don't have a clue about how to combine the illustrations I will hopefully have with the text. Layout is no problem, it's putting them together on a PDF that I don't know how to do. But that's what I'm taking this course for, so I look forward to figuring out how to do things I haven't yet tried.
WHAT IT WILL (hopefully) LOOK LIKE: Nice. What it looks like is very very important to me, from the cover design to the font to the illustrations. Tomorrow I will ask one of my very talented adult students if she's willing to design a cover and do some simple illustrations to accompany the text; if she's too busy, I have two other friends in mind. It will be a small, rather than large, book, divided into short sections rather than long chapters. It will be short rather than long--maybe 20 pages at most? It will not be in Times New Roman, but it won't be something odd like Comic Sans, either.
HOW MUCH HAVE I WRITTEN? Nothing yet, haha. But the sections are there in my head like sock drawer dividers, and the organization shouldn't be hard. I will probably agonise over what words to use. So I have a mental framework and plenty of content, but no words or illustrations yet.
WHEN DO I PLAN TO WRITE: Mmmmmm......it's probably good that this assignment forces me to think of the time issue right off the bat. I do not have a free day or even a good block of time on the horizon this month; that means I will be writing in the late evenings, when I'm not too tired. Hopefully I can get to sleep afterwards.
WHAT AM I WORRIED ABOUT: The technical stuff. I'm thinking that I do not need to have Microsoft Word to make nice PDF pages---right? I really don't have a clue about how to combine the illustrations I will hopefully have with the text. Layout is no problem, it's putting them together on a PDF that I don't know how to do. But that's what I'm taking this course for, so I look forward to figuring out how to do things I haven't yet tried.
There's lots to figure out, but we're in the right place to do it!
ReplyDeleteOooooh, thank you for the font advice, @ Dorothy! I'm currently working in Google Docs, and I also have Pages and Libre Office installed in my laptop. I was required to use Word (and Times New Roman only) during graduate school, but my free subscription expired when I graduated. My student immediately agreed to do the illustrations for me, so I'm set to go.
ReplyDeleteGood to go--I like the sound of that!
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