Getting started
So it’s Tuesday… I couldn’t post Monday. I can never do anything Mondays… It’s a fact, anyone who knows me, knows it!
I spent the weekend, for the first time since working on Avalon Dreams, chilling. I read 4 romance novels, walked the pups, worked out, and did some wedding related stuff. Not bad all in all, eh?
I should probably introduce you to a bit more about me.. But that’ll come in a later post[image error]
For now, what I have to share is this: editing is HARD. I know it’s a given, but come on… I spent 4 months editing AD and now my epub format won’t recognize one of THE most important fonts in my book: italics!
So yes, I’m off to the formatting day again, in between doing some actual work… Luckily I got my loyal Starbucks woo hoo!
I’m hoping to have something more positive to post later today, such as… having finished the edit for good.
Meanwhile, has anyone had any issues with formatting? Share below in the comments!
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Exactly! Thank you! It's such a pain, especially when you have 400+ pgs of editing to do :/ In my manuscript, I have a lot of italics for one of the characters (thoughts and whatnot). So when the "nuclear" method gets suggested, I have to re-do everything... I found a nice shortcut which I'll post soon, but yeah, agreed, it's a pain and they do NOT make it easy :)
I feel your pain.What are you using to edit? I use italics a lot for characters thoughts and didn't have that particular issue. Other issues mind you; but not that one *sigh*
And what is the nuclear method?
As it's been explained to me (lol) it's when you copy/paste your entire novel into a notepad/text edit (if you have mac, which I do) to strip it from any styles/formatting. And then copy/paste back into word and start from scratch. My big issue now is converting my word/html to an epub. it works, but doesn't keep the italics :( at all! Everything else, it keeps. And because I have a mac, Indesign is not working, so headache after headache *sigh* any tips? Cause I'm ready to try anything lol.
Haaaa I made it work! :D Calibre is the secret. My work is done for today :)
Way to go!! Yay!!!I don't know calibre. I have a PC and just use Word files to convert for both print and ebook. It's far from perfect but what can you do?
Is calibre for ebook conversion?
Thanks! And yep it's an old school e-book reader & converter. So you can use it to read any epub or mobi version of a book, or you can use it to import documents and it converts them to epub / ebook versions. It's pretty awesome :) Once I imported my book in there and converted it, I downloaded 3 other e-book readers to make sure it looks proper with italics & all. And then I did my happy dance!
I'm convinced no matter what you do it will always be off slightly due to the variation in ereaders on the market. And of course formatted for print is different than formatted for digital...why make it easy on us authors right?
So yeah, I've been there :)