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"Beauty" is finished (as of yesterday), edited (as of this afternoon), and printed (as of tonight)... but not yet bound, because my parents' 3-hole-punch has gone missing. I will have to buy one tomorrow, or maybe those nifty report binder cover thingies, or maybe both! My usual habit is to punch three holes and bind with colored ribbon, because I've found, over the years, that trying to use anything short of a heavy-duty industrial stapler on more than about 6 pages is just asking for headaches, and because I'm too damn lazy to do stitch-bindery if I'm not being paid actual money.
Also, stitch-bindery is only a really practical option if I go to the bother of formatting a story in half pages on landscape orientation, and work out the correct pagination so the story's in order when I fold the papers. And doing that formatting takes HOURS, because no matter how you try to standardize it, the margins always go completely bizarre and require extensive manual fixes, and you end up with dropped lines and widows up the wazoo, and I hate having to tweak those into looking nice.
Um.
Anyway, the story's done, and I'm thankful for that. I'll probably stick it up on lj in a day or two, with a link to Perrault's original on which my version is based.
I may or may not be doing much writing tomorrow, because my parents' computer stopped recognizing my floppy disk (fortunately after I'd downloaded "Beauty" to the hard drive) and therefore it's kind of hard for me to pick up in the middles of chapters when I'm not quite sure where I left off. Ah well. I'm sure I'll think of something.
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"Beauty" is finished (as of yesterday), edited (as of this afternoon), and printed (as of tonight)... but not yet bound, because my parents' 3-hole-punch has gone missing. I will have to buy one tomorrow, or maybe those nifty report binder cover thingies, or maybe both! My usual habit is to punch three holes and bind with colored ribbon, because I've found, over the years, that trying to use anything short of a heavy-duty industrial stapler on more than about 6 pages is just asking for headaches, and because I'm too damn lazy to do stitch-bindery if I'm not being paid actual money.
Also, stitch-bindery is only a really practical option if I go to the bother of formatting a story in half pages on landscape orientation, and work out the correct pagination so the story's in order when I fold the papers. And doing that formatting takes HOURS, because no matter how you try to standardize it, the margins always go completely bizarre and require extensive manual fixes, and you end up with dropped lines and widows up the wazoo, and I hate having to tweak those into looking nice.
Um.
Anyway, the story's done, and I'm thankful for that. I'll probably stick it up on lj in a day or two, with a link to Perrault's original on which my version is based.
I may or may not be doing much writing tomorrow, because my parents' computer stopped recognizing my floppy disk (fortunately after I'd downloaded "Beauty" to the hard drive) and therefore it's kind of hard for me to pick up in the middles of chapters when I'm not quite sure where I left off. Ah well. I'm sure I'll think of something.
