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Michael's Blog – August 2015 Archive (4)

Two kinds of manuscript

Looking back over the week, I can see I’ve been busy but I can also remember how much rain there has been. Monday was torrential. Tuesday we went on a coach trip to Salisbury and it rained there as well, all day. We went into the cathedral. It was the first time for me, but this is the 800th year of the signing of the Magna Carta (1215), and I wanted to go into the cathedral and get a sense of the history behind our heritage. While I was in there admiring the huge structure, I…

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Added by Michael on August 29, 2015 at 7:23am — No Comments

Projects and more projects

My week kicked off with another kind of project which meant a brief survey and a trip to B&Q (our major, D-I-Y outlet in UK). We are planning to change our kitchen round a bit and will have an electric cooker & hob installed in place of our gas cooker. But because we have no dedicated circuit for an electric cooker, yours truly has to put one in. It isn’t beyond my technical capability, but physically I’m getting too old for what we often referred to “house bashing” in the trade.…

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Added by Michael on August 15, 2015 at 5:45am — No Comments

Thai curry, book people, gardens and plots.

August 9th

 

Began the week with a Thai curry at a local Thai restaurant in Chichester. It was with the CHINDI authors. There were seven of us there, and it was great to talk about books, writing, self-publishing, ‘do’s and don’ts’ etc. A lot information flowed around the table and it meant I picked up a few tips. I thought I might have found myself a reasonably priced designer to help me with my book jacket. One of the writers there uses her for all his jackets. I…

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Added by Michael on August 9, 2015 at 10:00pm — No Comments

Winning the Battle

I’m making progress this week with Photoshop. I am gradually figuring out which tool does what and the importance of working with layer masks. One of the downsides to watching help videos on You tube is that you often see a screen, or an action that you can’t replicate. I watched as one photograph was merged into another with a very simple, sliding action. I tried it and failed. I watched that section of the video repeatedly, but it didn’t happen for me. Oh, I have the latest version of…

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Added by Michael on August 1, 2015 at 8:00pm — No Comments

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