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Sally Too
Joined: 14 Sep 2006 Posts: 2511 Location: N.Ireland
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gleefulgoat
Joined: 14 Feb 2013 Posts: 17
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Posted: Tue Feb 19, 13 6:22 pm Post subject: |
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Sally too wrote: |
Linky to your book GG? What type of book have you written? |
It's called "a Diary Of The First Years Smallholding - Warts an All!"
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Diary-The-First-Years-Smallholding/dp/1471696952/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1361297289&sr=8-1
And its basically that....a diary of how we coped as first time small holders, it should have been called "how not to run a small holding"
I wrote a diary most days, of the antics of chasing goats, falling over in pig...er...poop, the fun with chickens, and also the hard ship we had when my husband lost his job and we were snowed in for 3 months....the people who have read it said its very funny...wasn't really the intention hahaha but i am glad it made them laugh.... its a little crude in the making, but its my first one and i am now on the second one
It's okay that its a little crude in the making though 300 people like it so far, and I enjoy making it, and if it gives someone a laugh at my expense well its good, thats what matters.
So give your writing a go... read it and proof read it as much as you want or feel happy....THEN look for publisher |
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Joined: 30 Dec 2006 Posts: 11622 Location: truro
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Joined: 30 Dec 2006 Posts: 11622 Location: truro
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Posted: Tue Feb 19, 13 6:40 pm Post subject: |
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Gervase wrote: |
vegplot wrote: |
An excellent piece of software which can help with layout and organsiation is Scrivener - it's designed for the task. |
Wholeheartedly agree with Scrivener; it's a superb piece of software that makes writing much easier, and has the added advantage that at the end you can compile a manuscript and format it as an ebook for Kindle, iTunes or any reader/distributor and have the finished product on your desktop in minutes, ready to upload. It can also import from almost any format - doc, docx, pdf, rtf, html etc - and has a very intuitive 'notes' section where you can store your research.
It seems to be becoming the software of choice for a lot of writers now, both in fiction and non-fiction, and is certainly hard to beat for features or ease of use. It's also a lot cheaper than Word! |
i'm using scriviner as a combi writing tool and database for my thesis. the ability to write chunks of text and throw them about without risking deleting them, or throw them into the 'junk' file to rewrite for later or turn into an article for soemthing else. and i can link text to pdf files, so i can easily check my quotes and confirm my intrepretation when i go bak for rewrites.
combine it with somethinbg like a dropbox account, throw the save files into the dropbox.
only thing for me is the lack of formatting, like the arsey thing with footnotes or lack of endnote integration, i'll have to export into word to do that. but it's better than anyhting else i've played with. Might try playing with latex at some point. but it looked a bit scary and i think it's more than i actually need. |
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Pilgrim1975
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marigold
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chez
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Selkie
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Sally Too
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jamanda Downsizer Moderator
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