So I'm looking forward to a very festive day.
If you are celebrating, I want to wish you the best. I hope you have everything you need and want and you can look forward to a happy, healthy, and prosperous New Year.
Best wishes, always.
Helen
It's Christmas Eve here in San Francisco and for the first time ever, I've wrapped the last give and cooked the last dish - my only dish, a gift of almond rook for a friend who loves it - well before midnight. My Christmas celebrations begin tomorrow. When my daughter was young we had a tradition of opening one gift on Christmas Eve and watching a movie. Now that she has her own home and family, our tradition is to celebrate at her table.
So I'm looking forward to a very festive day. If you are celebrating, I want to wish you the best. I hope you have everything you need and want and you can look forward to a happy, healthy, and prosperous New Year. Best wishes, always. Helen
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rop cap anyone? For those of you who design your books for print, this website is a gem and a must see. If you don’t design your own books but love imaginative yet practical art, you must also visit The Daily Drop Cap where graphic artist Jessica Hische has designed 12 alphabets for non-commercial use, each one more inventive and fun than the next. But what’s a drop cap you say? Look at the first letter of this post. You’ve seen it and may have envied it, that graceful “I” of “It was a dark and stormy night,” trailing the opening of your book. Open any classic, a book that takes itself seriously, say medieval manuscript, and you’ll find the first initial of the first word at the beginning of a chapter enlarged and set within a decorative image. The monks of old would create masterpieces around these letters. Vellum allows it, though considerably less fanciful, in several of its templates. Microsoft word offers it as a drop cap in the Format menu. Their initial wraps the remainder of the text around it so you don’t have spacing problems with next lines. Dave Bricker’s book designer blog gives an in-depth explanation of all the variations on decorative first initials. As I said, even though you may not be a buyer in a museum, it’s always fun to look at the pictures. Enjoy. Helen Visit me here: DailyWritingCoach |
AuthorAs I look back on my writing life I should have known the path my life would take even as stretched out on my couch with a favorite book. I'd critique the prose with a mental red pencil, crossing out words that offended my sensibilities and substituting ones more to my liking. It didn't occur to me at the time, but I was a writer and editor in the making, even though my first book was years down the road. Since then I've written over 40 books, both fiction and non-fiction and edited many more. ArchivesCategories |