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oriongates
Mar 14, 2013

Validate Me!


Cargo-Cult design is probably a good way to describe it. I know that when I start working on a book I just think of a book from my collection that's fairly close to what I'm trying to write in terms of ideas and length and that I personally think "this looks pretty good" then I just kind of ape its formatting.

I've even found myself doing the same thing with my own stuff...I come to a chapter and try and think about how I put it together, title it, etc...so I just look at the last thing I did that was fairly similar and see if that works. It's all very seat of the pants.

Of course, this is all fairly theoretical for me. The only books I've worked on that were professionally produced were formatted and edited by someone else entirely without my involvement.

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