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Monthly Archives: June 2010

What I Learned about Writing this Week…from the Kitten.

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

In its early stages, say, the first couple drafts, your story is rambunctious. You try to impose limits on it, but it’s mostly out of your control, skittering hither and yon and making a complete nuisance of itself…

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On HTML Heading Styles: How to Export Your Google Docs Beautifully

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

When you use standard HTML styles in Google Docs properly, it’s incredibly easy to change your document’s format to match a publisher’s submission guidelines.

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On HTML Heading Styles: How to Customize Paragraph Styles in Google Docs

Monday, June 28, 2010

Yesterday I told you about BookMaker and the publishing model I built on Google Docs heading styles. Maybe my account made it all feel a little grandiose (and I haven’t even gotten started telling you about my long-term plans), but really what I described is the whole point of templates and standard styles: generalization. If [...]

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On HTML Heading Styles: A BookMaker Story

Sunday, June 27, 2010

Once or twice now I’ve mentioned the program I wrote to grab my Google Docs novels and cram them into Word templates so I could pretty them up for submission. That was a fairly humble little Python script that I ran on my laptop maybe five or ten times. When Courtney asked me to help [...]

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On Style: Master Your Writing Style

Saturday, June 26, 2010

As I was getting to know Julie Roads through her blog, I remember a couple relatively innocuous or offhand comments that stuck out to me. That’s one of the strange things about blogging — you never know where a reader’s going to start. So it’s easy to make an offhand reference to something you may [...]

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