Comments for Sunflowers http://sunflowers.staticpulse.com Building a book Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:59:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 Comment on Worrying Ahead, or How to Design a Book Before You Have To by nano http://sunflowers.staticpulse.com/2009/04/worrying-ahead/comment-page-1/#comment-784 nano Mon, 20 Apr 2009 11:24:54 +0000 http://sunflowers.staticpulse.com/?p=91#comment-784 <p>Your comment sent me on a quest to find out how to digitize my handwriting.</p> <p>But then I started thinking about how that would look. That wouldn't look very good at all. Plus, part of the aesthetic is that I'm writing this as if I were writing a journal at the time, and handwriting in a small journal helps me get into that mode. Paradoxically, despite the relatively small amount of writing I have to do by limiting myself to "entries" in a "travel journal," it still takes immense effort to write just a single day's worth of events and thoughts.</p> <p>In short, I don't think that digitizing my handwriting will make this book see the light of day any faster. It would certainly give me more freedom with the layout (you can only lay out scanned journal pages in so many ways before you lose the effect you're going for), but the main issue I was addressing in this post was "designing as I go" vs. "writing first and designing later."</p> <p>I love to pick nits, so I will. Regarding your last sentence: I wasn't giving "advice" to anybody. I was elaborating on my internal debate over how to go about building a book.</p> Your comment sent me on a quest to find out how to digitize my handwriting.

But then I started thinking about how that would look. That wouldn’t look very good at all. Plus, part of the aesthetic is that I’m writing this as if I were writing a journal at the time, and handwriting in a small journal helps me get into that mode. Paradoxically, despite the relatively small amount of writing I have to do by limiting myself to “entries” in a “travel journal,” it still takes immense effort to write just a single day’s worth of events and thoughts.

In short, I don’t think that digitizing my handwriting will make this book see the light of day any faster. It would certainly give me more freedom with the layout (you can only lay out scanned journal pages in so many ways before you lose the effect you’re going for), but the main issue I was addressing in this post was “designing as I go” vs. “writing first and designing later.”

I love to pick nits, so I will. Regarding your last sentence: I wasn’t giving “advice” to anybody. I was elaborating on my internal debate over how to go about building a book.

]]> Comment on Worrying Ahead, or How to Design a Book Before You Have To by Anonymous coward http://sunflowers.staticpulse.com/2009/04/worrying-ahead/comment-page-1/#comment-717 Anonymous coward Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:13:11 +0000 http://sunflowers.staticpulse.com/?p=91#comment-717 <p>I've been following this for awhile now but I'm beginning to question the idea of handwriting the entire thing. Why not take the time and digitize your handwriting into a font? This way you can do the layout digitally. It doesn't seem practical to write out multiple volumes entirely by hand. Surely your time is better spent elsewhere, like on the narrative itself. It seems to me that you're more concerned with the look and feel rather than the content. Take your own advice "concentrate on the writing and leave the design for later."</p> I’ve been following this for awhile now but I’m beginning to question the idea of handwriting the entire thing. Why not take the time and digitize your handwriting into a font? This way you can do the layout digitally. It doesn’t seem practical to write out multiple volumes entirely by hand. Surely your time is better spent elsewhere, like on the narrative itself. It seems to me that you’re more concerned with the look and feel rather than the content. Take your own advice “concentrate on the writing and leave the design for later.”

]]> Comment on The Drawing for the Cover by Worrying Ahead, or How to Design a Book Before You Have To < Sunflowers http://sunflowers.staticpulse.com/2009/01/the-drawing-for-the-cover/comment-page-1/#comment-666 Worrying Ahead, or How to Design a Book Before You Have To < Sunflowers Thu, 16 Apr 2009 08:40:18 +0000 http://sunflowers.staticpulse.com/?p=66#comment-666 <p>[...] that idea), contemplating the placement and typography for the title of the book on Roger’s excellently-designed drawing which is going on the cover, and other non-written aspects of the book. I’m concerned over [...]</p> [...] that idea), contemplating the placement and typography for the title of the book on Roger’s excellently-designed drawing which is going on the cover, and other non-written aspects of the book. I’m concerned over [...]

]]> Comment on My Favorite Memory from the Trip by Jet Ski Man http://sunflowers.staticpulse.com/2009/02/my-favorite-memory-from-the-trip/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Jet Ski Man Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:14:12 +0000 http://sunflowers.staticpulse.com/?p=72#comment-5 <p>It looks like you had a load of fun. It's just reminded me just how much I need to get out and start traveling.</p> It looks like you had a load of fun. It’s just reminded me just how much I need to get out and start traveling.

]]> Comment on I’ve Been Thinking… by sara http://sunflowers.staticpulse.com/2008/12/ive-been-thinking/comment-page-1/#comment-3 sara Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:18:20 +0000 http://staticpulse.com/sunflowers/2008/12/ive-been-thinking%e2%80%a6/#comment-3 <p>a journal about a book about a road trip?</p> <p>wow, you haven't changed a bit.</p> <p>self-absorbed much?</p> <p><3 you! (hah!)</p> a journal about a book about a road trip?

wow, you haven’t changed a bit.

self-absorbed much?

<3 you! (hah!)

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