Tuesday, May 22nd
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alexandraerinThe Daily Report
Back in January, I made a post musing a bit about chapbooks and the odds and ends of a literary career. I feel that there's a lot of merit in the idea, though I confess I haven't done much with it... but Jack's reminded me of it.
Despite my love of words and wordplay, I don't have a lot of poetry in my soul, but he has a few poems and things, so we've started to pull together a test case of sorts. It will take a certain amount of polish to pull it off properly. A chapbook should by definition be affordable, but it shouldn't look cheap... particularly if it's an electronic beastie, since people tend to be skeptical of such things to begin with. I think what I'm ultimately envisioning is something that's electronic and easily reproducible (i.e., not a proprietary format) but something that can also be printed out and stapled together as a freebie booklet, like a bunch of half-pages made by folding over and stapling in the middle.
In other words, there will ultimately need to be two versions of a given chapbook, one for reading and disseminating electronically and one for printing/photocopying... that version will also be electronically distributed.
Again, this is something that will probably ultimately be more of a marketing angle than a revenue stream, though it could possibly be both.
State of the Me
More or less unchanged.
Plans For Today
I've been writing. My goal is to be half finished with the next chapter of Tales of MU today, then do the other half tomorrow. It's not due until Friday and I'll have time on the plane on Thursday to pull it together a bit better after sleeping on it, so the chapter shouldn't suffer too much for being a little rushed.
Back in January, I made a post musing a bit about chapbooks and the odds and ends of a literary career. I feel that there's a lot of merit in the idea, though I confess I haven't done much with it... but Jack's reminded me of it.
Despite my love of words and wordplay, I don't have a lot of poetry in my soul, but he has a few poems and things, so we've started to pull together a test case of sorts. It will take a certain amount of polish to pull it off properly. A chapbook should by definition be affordable, but it shouldn't look cheap... particularly if it's an electronic beastie, since people tend to be skeptical of such things to begin with. I think what I'm ultimately envisioning is something that's electronic and easily reproducible (i.e., not a proprietary format) but something that can also be printed out and stapled together as a freebie booklet, like a bunch of half-pages made by folding over and stapling in the middle.
In other words, there will ultimately need to be two versions of a given chapbook, one for reading and disseminating electronically and one for printing/photocopying... that version will also be electronically distributed.
Again, this is something that will probably ultimately be more of a marketing angle than a revenue stream, though it could possibly be both.
State of the Me
More or less unchanged.
Plans For Today
I've been writing. My goal is to be half finished with the next chapter of Tales of MU today, then do the other half tomorrow. It's not due until Friday and I'll have time on the plane on Thursday to pull it together a bit better after sleeping on it, so the chapter shouldn't suffer too much for being a little rushed.