update: short-edge binding and other sanity-saving print options

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After much wasted ink and new bits of scrap paper, impositions are in place and the first print tests of PRESS (A) 01 are done: it is possible to both assemble and maintain a modicum of sanity. All that remains now is to finish the cover design, a few tweaks on the conclusion, and modifications here for its release and my first longform non-fic piece since 2013 will be ready to go. Rinse, wash, repeat every six months (though the next one will be fiction, probably.)

tue/20220726

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12 point spacing between lines, margins lined up, on and on it goes: racing towards that first print test; trepidation ensues but relief that I only have to do this for the first time once. 73 pages.

Back screaming slightly less than last night so that's nice, mower back being a brutal beast, especially when you screw up any lumbar support said mower may have once possessed by getting clotheslined and thrown by a swingset – back/ass, meet ground  – but that's a story for another time already told.

I love my new doorstops and will order more doorstops soon. Back to work.

mon/20220725

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It is still finished and I've thus spent the morning neck deep in the throes of Affinity Publisher formatting/final edits (never underestimate the impact that page turns will have on a text) but the dominant notion this morning is that I already want to go back to bed; tornado warnings at 0100 (north of us, we had some lightning but nothing major) and a strange sensation of being stretched like putty which threw my balance off considerably. Maybe I was replaying what Wanda did to 838-Jim-from-The-Office?

Goal today is to wrap up the formatting so I can see how the formatting actually looks on paper and then decide if I have to scrap it and start over with a larger format. I think I have to finish mowing the in-lawn too.

Hm. That stretching feeling might have basis in reality.

update upon a deadline met

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DONE.

Will start the process of putting it into Affinity Publisher tomorrow – which will, inevitably, bring with it further edits and tightenings (though nothing structurally significant, hopefully). Won’t rush this part of the process just to hit an artificial release date; aiming for next Sunday, but willing to push it into the second week of August or so if it’s not quite there yet.

Regardless, relief.

final edits of a deadline blown

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… on the final parts of PRESS(A) 01: tightenings and transpositions and memories resurgent via aural readings, for better or for worse. Doesn't look like I'll hit my lock deadline of today but, as was the case with my first blown deadline, COMICSTORYWORLD, it will be worth it (screenwriter for Abrams's STAR TREK called me up for an interview I’d forgotten I requested two days before the second deadline). Pushed it to Wednesday, though my guess is that I'll be able to say "I'm finished" before then.

Still aiming for release next Sunday to newsletter subscribers though I might push that off until the next week. All depends on how the assembly process goes. Don't want to rush it.