Ideas

Something about a writer’s brain not only likes to imagine things, but it takes that next step and says, “write this!” We ignore it for so long, telling ourselves that our ideas are ridiculous. Nobody would want to read that. Then we read books where things happen (which may or may not be ridiculous) and, at some point, our brains whisper, “You can do this, too.”

Typesetting for print copies

After finishing the e-book and cover and uploading them to Amazon, the next step was to prepare the manuscript for print copies. In my case, for Createspace or KDP, but there are other print-on-demand services out there, such as IngramSpark.

Post-finishing #2: Sigil

In Post-Finishing #1, I mentioned that I used Sigil to take the finished manuscript from Scrivener and turn it into a good looking, functional e-book. Here’s what I did.