Anthony audio genesis10/29/2022 ![]() ![]() The printer asked for text and images as PDF files and sent back a digital proof and the pages numbered. ![]() Other aspects were to resize the page, choose margin size, make sure every word was in the correct font which I found painstaking but MS Word enabled me to do all of this. The paper was 90 GSM and suggested by the printer. First came the size and I decided upon B5, next type face and I thought Palatino Linotype looked good, is very readable and had a certain gravitas. Next came the design and layout a process I found very interesting. I gained a different perspective of what had happend which was both useful and enjoyable. The research, choosing the photos to use, all caused me to reflect on my life and enabled me to better understand why things happend the way and when they did. I then joined a short story writing class with Barbara Marsh which was very interesting and helpful and lead to more re-writing! Eventually I was able to manage 40,000 words, not many for a book but loads for me. In fact I enrolled with two of his courses and learnt much which meant re-writing! Nick also encouraged us to plan the book and so I laid out the chapters with a sketch of how I wanted the story to unfold and the order in which the chapters were to be. I still wear baggy trousers and braces.Īfter I had written a couple of chapters I thought to join the Life Writing class run by the Bishopsgate institute tutored by Nick Barley. I then decided to include some photos and this is one of me at about 18 months. We already had ISBN numbers and had used a great printer, One Digital, for the Enfield Poets Anthology so I was all set. I had bought Anna Meryt’s book on writing a memoir and my original plan was to print it using my laser onto A4 pages but as I began writing I thought that something better could be produced and decided to self publish a “proper book”. Our youngest grandson, Jake, asked us ‘What was it like when you were my age?’ and how could he know as I rarely spoke of my upbringing to him or the other grandchildren? This prompted me to write a memoir whose title was suggested by Jake’s mother Megan, “Me, My Beard and I”. ![]()
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