I wish this were
only an April Fool’s joke: the print edition of “Circa Sixty
Years Dead” is not ready. Earlier in the week I started
transferring the story to the manuscript template but then found out that there were some technical problems. The
template was made for a book divided into chapters. I don’t use
chapters in “Circa” since it’s a short work. But problems like
these can easily be fixed. I simply placed the cursor of my mouse on
the first tab of a chapter’s opening page.
Then I back-spaced until I got rid of the chapter heading as well as
the page break. The page
breaks are often used so the next chapter won’t begin on the same
page as the end of the previous one. I did this for the first page of
each chapter.
Now I have to see if
there are any other technical challenges in the template but I won’t
be able to tell until I start pasting my story’s text to the
template. Unless you’re an expert at book design, which I’m not,
formatting your own book is really all about trial and error among
other tasks in self-publishing.
Since
I work with Libre Writer for typing my manuscript does this mean the
above method only works for that? Actually, it will especially work
for Microsoft Word. Word’s help website is
where I learned how to
do it. I had tried Libre’s online
help centre
but when I did a search
for how to delete
pages only results for deleting other things came up. It
shows you how compatible Writer is with Word but how bad Libre’s
help site is. But I
can’t complain too much since Libre offers its software for free.
The method for deleting pages may differ slightly with other word
processing software.
I’m going to work
on the print edition of “Circa” throughout the week. And since I
may not be doing a post next weekend because one of my in-laws is
tying the knot, I’ll let you know on my Facebook page
when the print edition is out. Or maybe even when it’s not out. So
visit my FB page throughout the week for updates on that as well as
for other neat stuff.
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Since the print
version of “Circa” has seemed like nothing but a joke ever since
I said several months back, around Christmas, that it would be comingsooner than expected, I’ll make up for it with a no-fool’in April Fool’s offer. From
midnight tonight through tomorrow, Pacific standard time, you can get
a free e-copy of my short fiction collection, The Fool’sIllusion!
Have you tried using
Word templates to format your book? What has been your experience
with them?
Until next time . .
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