Getting There

I'm pretty sure the guts of my new letter tutorial is done. Now it's down to fine tuning, spell-checking, consistency checking, flow checking, grammar checking and general proofreading.

I also have to add the usual acknowledgement pages, Gallery who's who pages, links to my tutorials, my blog and my contact page.

Then it will go to my trusty proofreaders and they will go through it with a fine tooth comb and send be their opinions and recommendations. I'll review them, and I might disagree, but when the dust settles the tutorial will be ready for publication.

I'm REALLY proud of this one, and my beta testers are thrilled. I've sent a preview to my proofreaders and they are excited too.

Here's what one of them had to say about it:

It's coming.

I promise.

Reading

 

I am reading Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe, about "The Troubles" in Northern Ireland. You can read about it anywhere. I have not got a drop of Irish in me, but I read the review in the New York Times and had to read it.

It is absorbing and terrifying, and agonizing and ultimately sad. I cannot put it down, yet I cannot read more than two or three chapters in a day because... well, it's intense.

I remember the hunger strikes when Bobby Sands died. I remember Bloody Sunday and the Good Friday Agreement. I remember Stephen Rea and The Crying Game. I remember conversations with friends about the IRA and Gerry Sands. It's enlightening. It's sad.

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So, that and I've been working on the letters tute and OMG, my Beta Posse of Quilters so gung ho and excited! They are WAY ahead of me. I prepared a basic outline that included photos of how I make the letters and then I started explaining how in the first five or six, and already they were working their way right past me. One even STARTED with the Q, which I think is the hardest letter. (Well, actually I have a hard time with the D, but go figure.) They are already giving advice, calling out typos and offering suggestions. So much fun. The thing is already at 69 pages and I have yet to discuss kerning, lining up the letters so they are straight, numbers or lower case letters. So this project is humming right along.