![]() And they knew InDesign!Īt this point I realized I was doing the right thing looking for help. None of them had ever done a book before and they wouldn't bite. I asked a couple friends who have done professional magazine layout if I could pay them to do a book design. With a program designed for layout, you have tools at your disposal for communicating that you simply don’t have or don’t have in the same way with text editors like Microsoft Word.Īfter a couple weeks I became frustrated because I found myself not being able to do what I wanted with it and I was focusing more on learning InDesign than making progress. You want elements such as headers, sub-headers, lists, tables, sidebars, and footnotes that complement the work without your readers being distracted. You want the layout to complement the content.If you have any graphics you want to include, you will struggle integrating them using Microsoft Word. Word and other text editors are not designed for advanced typesetting features like kerning, ligatures, and justification and hyphenation algorithms. Here's a few of the reasons why you want to use a layout program: This is why I'd highly recommend using a professional layout program. Layout and typesetting are other critical components. Once thinking about the writing became thinking about the design, the writing became much easier - it was just another aspect of the design. You want something aesthetically beautiful, whatever beautiful means for the work that you're creating. You want the layout to complement the text and the text to work with the design. This realization was that writing and design are not two separate things. First though, I wanted to talk about a realization that helped me get past a few of my writing hurdles. We'll be getting to the marketing aspect, it's the hardest part for me as well. In a poll at the end, skywriter asked about the hardest part of self-publishing and two themes emerged: writing the book and marketing the book. It's a great read and the follow-up discussion was also extremely valuable. Last week, skywriter published an excellent piece recommending indy publishers consider both CreateSpace and IngramSpark.
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