With December nigh at an ending , I wanted to make unspoilt on a promise I made back in late October when we introduced you to the madness of National Novel Writing Month , in which thou of people essay to write 50,000 words of a novel in the calendar month of November .
I participated for the third twelvemonth in a row andcrossed the finish pipeline with a few days to spare . Now that I ’m somewhat rest from that huge emesis of verbiage , let me explain the photo that play along my blog entry about NaNoWriMo , which showed me read a copy of the book I wrote from November 2006 through February 2008 , let in two 50,000 - word - long NaNoWriMo sessions .
The 24-hour interval I finished the first order of payment of the book , I decided I wanted to have something tangible to commemorate my accomplishment . But more than that , I wanted a few sure friends to read what I ’d written and tell me the Sojourner Truth , good or big , about what I had written , so that I could make the second draft of the book better .
The author attempts to hide his gruesome disfigurement behind the limited-edition paperback of his novel’s first draft.
Rather than print out hundreds of page of holograph on my printer and run it down to Kinko ’s , I decided to take reward of a print - on - demand Holy Scripture Robert William Service . For various reason ( let in conversancy , since we used it to provide photographic print - on - demand services for our very first Superguide book ) , I usedLulu.com .
Lulu provides a wide selection of Good Book types to pick out from . For my first potation I pick out Lulu ’s Pocket size , which is somewhat large than a mass - market paperback ( and print on adept newspaper than one ): 4.25 inches by 6.9 inches . Lulu supply leeway mount and even a blank Microsoft Word guide so that you could get the sizing of the Christian Bible just mighty .
The source seek to conceal his grim disfiguration behind the restrict - edition paperback of his novel ’s first draft . So I exported my story textual matter from Literature And Latte ’s Scrivener ( ) and open it in Word , created a custom report sizing , set all my margins per Lulu ’s instruction , append header and footer , and then printed to a 435 - page PDF , which I upload to Lulu .
I gain this process is n’t for everyone , but I had such a good experience with it that I repeated it once I had finished my Christian Bible ’s second draft . This meter I regularise a turgid sizing , Lulu ’s U.S. Trade ( 6 in by 9 inches ) , which made my book 318 pages long . I guess maybe I prefer the smaller trim size of the first book of account , but it was fun to experiment with a unlike look for this book that may or may not ever actually be published by a reputable book of account publishing firm .
And if my novel never gets published , no magnanimous deal — I’ve get two tangible editions as relic and I ’ll find a way to unfreeze it on the Internet for unsuspecting masses to falter over . I might even podcast it as an audiobook . Who knows ? Anything is potential . Now to finish that other novel , the one I stopped at 50,000 Christian Bible in late November just as it was getting good …
