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Fun with Fonts

By Slartibartfast · May 21, 2020 · Self-Publishing Journal

Broadly speaking, general-purpose fonts are divided into two families. Serif fonts. These are fonts like Times New Roman or Garamond which have...

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By the throat ...

By CelestialGrace · Apr 29, 2020 · The Dark Muse - Journal

I'm in a bad state, and it's interfering with my writing, and other creative puruits. Did you ever feel like cutting out the broken bits of your...

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Starting to Typeset

By Slartibartfast · Apr 27, 2020 · Self-Publishing Journal

Ah, typesetting. ...also illustration. Typesetting is great fun. The differences between ‘typesetting’ in a word-processor and typesetting in a...

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Staying Sane Throughout

By Slartibartfast · Apr 26, 2020 · Self-Publishing Journal

The error I see most often with other writers is that they assume that the reader knows what they do. This book is a how-to guide of sorts and I...

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Getting an Editor and first Beta-Reader

By Slartibartfast · Apr 25, 2020 · Self-Publishing Journal

Oh boy, this was fun. Proofreading and editing is an expensive service and involves a lot of trust. Anyone can charge you a few hundred to...

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Tips for Using Fiverr

By Slartibartfast · Apr 24, 2020 · Self-Publishing Journal

Things I Learned When Using Fiverr: - The pricing model is a lot more attractive to people who live in countries where the average wage is lower...

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Finding Freelancers on Fiverr

By Slartibartfast · Apr 23, 2020 · Self-Publishing Journal

One of the places I turned to for ‘odd jobs’ that I either didn’t have the skill or the software to do myself was Fiverr. This was such an odd...

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Looking Through The Draft

By Slartibartfast · Apr 22, 2020 · Self-Publishing Journal

Step one, before I even thought about paying anyone to do anything or calling in any favours, was to look over the document myself. It's a short...

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Setting the Scene

By Slartibartfast · Apr 22, 2020 · Self-Publishing Journal

This journal is about the self-publishing process. I spent the first few weeks of lockdown finishing off a non-fiction project. It’s sufficiently...

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Goals, plans, whatnot

By CelestialGrace · Apr 1, 2020 · The Dark Muse - Journal

So far a lot of what I've had planned for 2020 has gone to hell in a handbasket, yet strangely I'm still achieving some of my goals. I've spent a...

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Drowning not waving ...

By CelestialGrace · Mar 9, 2020 · The Dark Muse - Journal

Long before I found this wonderful community I found myself stumbling on my path to recovery - but it took a long time for me to identify the...

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Woah, back-up there ... please.

By CelestialGrace · Nov 23, 2019 · The Dark Muse - Journal

3 months after it crashed I have my PC back - with all files intact. I'm a prolific creator (and not just with writing) plus I'd been slack with...

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It's all a part of the process.

By CelestialGrace · Nov 9, 2019 · The Dark Muse - Journal

I was injured at the end of 2016 and sometime after that had my second break-down. It's no exaggeration to say that I barely made it through 2017...

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I'm Sorry...

By CelestialGrace · Nov 8, 2019 · The Dark Muse - Journal

Writing, esp poetry, has been a huge part of my recovery.

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Hello from the other side

By CelestialGrace · Nov 3, 2019 · The Dark Muse - Journal

I found this lovely community when researching some info for a client (for the book that I was editing). I've finally handed in all of my...

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