Edition 4 work has been going well in that it has been spell checked and lots of corrections made. Which in one way is good and in another bad( as it means there must have been lots of mistakes) personally I think the previous spell checker was as good as the new one, well that's how I am kidding myself!
The book stands at 330 A4 pages and 80 thousand words!
I know! even I was surprised and I have yet to add all the Dirk Maggs productions from 2008 and those so far produced up to this time for 2009.
So at this time I don't know what size the book will end up at.
So at this time I am happy with the Dirk Maggs book
Showing posts with label A4. Show all posts
Showing posts with label A4. Show all posts
17 April, 2009
30 May, 2008
Podcast
Did I tell you that I have a podcast?
No?
Well I have one, it goes back to last year, I am sorry to say that I have not been very active with it as some how or other I end up with no time and a quite place to record the thing.
I have worked out 2 years plus worth of shows if I do a 5 to 30 minute show one a fortnight. I have even got outline for some of the shows done (see I can get some things done, sometimes even books, actually I have so far written 10 books each more than 300 pages A4 size all non fiction)
I have started to wonder if i could do the podcast on my mobile then transfer it sad I know....
You want to know the name of the podcast well it's AE35 and if you do a Google you should find it, I did (ha ha) as I write this I have only done 5 shows so far, one of them lasts just 4 minutes or so ( do you know how hard it is to talk into a microphone?) with luck I will sort myself out and get some more shows done. It goes without saying that I have not told anyone but this blog about the shows, and the other thing is that I have the shows hosted for me on a site that has nothing to do with Dirk Maggs or James Follett.
No?
Well I have one, it goes back to last year, I am sorry to say that I have not been very active with it as some how or other I end up with no time and a quite place to record the thing.
I have worked out 2 years plus worth of shows if I do a 5 to 30 minute show one a fortnight. I have even got outline for some of the shows done (see I can get some things done, sometimes even books, actually I have so far written 10 books each more than 300 pages A4 size all non fiction)
I have started to wonder if i could do the podcast on my mobile then transfer it sad I know....
You want to know the name of the podcast well it's AE35 and if you do a Google you should find it, I did (ha ha) as I write this I have only done 5 shows so far, one of them lasts just 4 minutes or so ( do you know how hard it is to talk into a microphone?) with luck I will sort myself out and get some more shows done. It goes without saying that I have not told anyone but this blog about the shows, and the other thing is that I have the shows hosted for me on a site that has nothing to do with Dirk Maggs or James Follett.
28 May, 2008
Dirk Maggs Book Part 17
The edit on the 1st draft is going well I think. The draft without any index is 327 A4 pages long. As the edit goes it should drop down as I have some tables that need to be altered so that they go across the page and not down the page, some of the are quite long, so I am hoping that when edited as I said above that the page space being used will go down, so that will also mean the page count will also go down. When I do whatever I am going to do with the index or indexes then the page count will then go up, by how much I just don't know at this stage.
17 March, 2008
Dirk Maggs Book Part 13
There has been some progress all the drafts of all the chapters has now been done. I have now started to create the master document witll all the chapters in.
This is the second time that I have done this as the first time word inported all the files in the wrong order!
It would appear that in A4 page size the book is 357 pages long with out how many indexes I end up with.
This is the second time that I have done this as the first time word inported all the files in the wrong order!
It would appear that in A4 page size the book is 357 pages long with out how many indexes I end up with.
16 February, 2008
Dirk Maggs Book Part 10
Things have gone a bit slow on the draft front, mainly as I have been looking at hardback or paperback and also the problem of indexes, the index problem is one that I have yet to fully work out which way to go. If I go for more than one index then the work in doing such a thing is a lot, the rewards of having a good index can not be under estimated that much I am sure of. The only question is how many and what type of indexes do I want or does the book need?
On the hardback front I have decided that hardback is the way to go, the only problem now is what size of hardback?
At this time I do not have an answer to that question yet, if I have too small a book in page size the number of pages will go up and the other problem, which I have not yet looked at is how the content on each page will be effected. With the first problem as far as I can see as the page count goes up so does the cost of the final book.
A wild thought that I did have was, well why not have each years work as a volume in it's own right? but a quick look at this idea has already told me that if I stay in A4 size pages then some of the volumes will be very thin on the otherhand if the page size is smaller than A4 then the page count goes up, so all in all at this time I do not know what to to muli volume or one large volume.
I suppose the answer will only become clear once I have done all the drafts and put the book together in its first draft layout.
On the hardback front I have decided that hardback is the way to go, the only problem now is what size of hardback?
At this time I do not have an answer to that question yet, if I have too small a book in page size the number of pages will go up and the other problem, which I have not yet looked at is how the content on each page will be effected. With the first problem as far as I can see as the page count goes up so does the cost of the final book.
A wild thought that I did have was, well why not have each years work as a volume in it's own right? but a quick look at this idea has already told me that if I stay in A4 size pages then some of the volumes will be very thin on the otherhand if the page size is smaller than A4 then the page count goes up, so all in all at this time I do not know what to to muli volume or one large volume.
I suppose the answer will only become clear once I have done all the drafts and put the book together in its first draft layout.
15 February, 2008
Dirk Maggs Book Part 9
Today I had the great idea that my Dirk Maggs book would look good as a hardback book, on the grounds that it might last longer, I know that it will cost more to have printed but I think the extra cost will pay for it's self in that it will be around longer.
The only thing is that I have yet to find any word templates that will allow me to size my work correctly so that it will go from A4 size to what ever size a standard harddback book is.
Ho hum I think is what I said...
The only thing is that I have yet to find any word templates that will allow me to size my work correctly so that it will go from A4 size to what ever size a standard harddback book is.
Ho hum I think is what I said...
13 February, 2008
Dirk Maggs Book Part 7
Some progress of sorts in that I have done one of the chapters that is not work done in a year and is not an appendix.
Yes I have done the draft chapter for all other Audio work that Dirk has done, it was a bit of a surprise just how much in the early 2000's he did, he does not appear to have done much since the late 2006's.
So when I get the chance, I will list here each chapter and just how many pages in draft form in A4 pages the chapters take up.
Yes I know that it will all change as each chapter gets edited, but I want to keep a record, just to see if it is true that each rewrite is edit edit edit and that the number of words goes down.
Yes I have done the draft chapter for all other Audio work that Dirk has done, it was a bit of a surprise just how much in the early 2000's he did, he does not appear to have done much since the late 2006's.
So when I get the chance, I will list here each chapter and just how many pages in draft form in A4 pages the chapters take up.
Yes I know that it will all change as each chapter gets edited, but I want to keep a record, just to see if it is true that each rewrite is edit edit edit and that the number of words goes down.
21 January, 2008
Maggs Book part 2
An update on what has been going on with this years book project. Last time I said that I had done the draft for all work done in 1988.
Progress has not been good as I have been away doing training with IOSH on a course that I have already done before, but as company policy is that every member of staff will do this course even if you have already done it.
So back to the book, and I can say that the draft chapter for all work done in 1989 has also been done and it runs to 15 pages of A4.
I do not yet know just how big this book is going to be, but it looks like it will be large, even without photos.
Progress has not been good as I have been away doing training with IOSH on a course that I have already done before, but as company policy is that every member of staff will do this course even if you have already done it.
So back to the book, and I can say that the draft chapter for all work done in 1989 has also been done and it runs to 15 pages of A4.
I do not yet know just how big this book is going to be, but it looks like it will be large, even without photos.
12 January, 2008
Maggs Book
As you may or may not know I have a website, that is on a well known radio director called Dirk Maggs. In fact at this time it is the only website on a radio director and has been for the last 5 years!
The website has over time just got bigger, as Dirk creates new shows or I find out about old shows that he has done.
I have decided as the website is a living thing in that it only exsits as loads of electrons that I would produce a book of the website.
This I have done edition one of the the book was done last year, and had some 300 odd pages, edition two was produced late last year with no pictures in it as there are copyright problems and also cos it did not always print correctly.
So this years project is to do edition 3 of the book.
There are no plans to make the book avaiable to the public as I think I break lots of copyright rules, but there is nothing to stop me producing it for myself and maybe give a copy to Dirk.
So progress so far has been that I have found a templete for the book and have taken a copy of all of the website pages that would and do make sense to have in the printed format.
I have managed to layout the book so that each year is a chapter, then within each chapter each production from that year is then listed.
The first draft of the year 1988 has been done and it runs to 10 A4 pages!
The website has over time just got bigger, as Dirk creates new shows or I find out about old shows that he has done.
I have decided as the website is a living thing in that it only exsits as loads of electrons that I would produce a book of the website.
This I have done edition one of the the book was done last year, and had some 300 odd pages, edition two was produced late last year with no pictures in it as there are copyright problems and also cos it did not always print correctly.
So this years project is to do edition 3 of the book.
There are no plans to make the book avaiable to the public as I think I break lots of copyright rules, but there is nothing to stop me producing it for myself and maybe give a copy to Dirk.
So progress so far has been that I have found a templete for the book and have taken a copy of all of the website pages that would and do make sense to have in the printed format.
I have managed to layout the book so that each year is a chapter, then within each chapter each production from that year is then listed.
The first draft of the year 1988 has been done and it runs to 10 A4 pages!
20 March, 2007
Website Book
As you may or may not already know I have a website that lists alll the work the producer & Director Dirk Maggs has done. As I was looking for a writing project I thought it would be a good idea to produce a book from the contents of the website.
Little did I know what I was letting myself in for, as the book is some 300 pages long when using an A4 layout. The bigest single cause of %%$^%$$ has been Microsoft Word, which for some reason was falling over. I do not understand why as I have written a much larger book and did not have much if any trouble. In fact the last book that I wrote had 26 pages of contents so that should give you some idea as to how large that book was.
Anyway as I was saying the current book is 310 pages of A$ with 6 pages of contents and a file size of 6 Megs. The only thing that I can think of that is making word fall over is the picture that are in the book.
So as I said at the start of this the book is nearly done and I must admit that it has been over a month in doing the conversion from web pages to word or text pages, this was a surprize to me as I thought the task would have taken much less time.
So all I now have to do is get the page numbering right spell check it and then convert it to a PDF file and upload to my Lulu page, I will report back on progress.
Little did I know what I was letting myself in for, as the book is some 300 pages long when using an A4 layout. The bigest single cause of %%$^%$$ has been Microsoft Word, which for some reason was falling over. I do not understand why as I have written a much larger book and did not have much if any trouble. In fact the last book that I wrote had 26 pages of contents so that should give you some idea as to how large that book was.
Anyway as I was saying the current book is 310 pages of A$ with 6 pages of contents and a file size of 6 Megs. The only thing that I can think of that is making word fall over is the picture that are in the book.
So as I said at the start of this the book is nearly done and I must admit that it has been over a month in doing the conversion from web pages to word or text pages, this was a surprize to me as I thought the task would have taken much less time.
So all I now have to do is get the page numbering right spell check it and then convert it to a PDF file and upload to my Lulu page, I will report back on progress.
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