Hail and well met, and also welcome; welcome to the 11th writing club update. Fun fact about the number 11: it’s only the tenth positive palindromic number, and it will be 11 more months before we encounter our next one (22). Wow.
The weather here has been exceptionally rainy lately, and so perfect for weeding, editing, and savouring moments over hot cups of ginger tea.
I hope you are all safe and that your ginger and writing projects remain free of mold.
Speaking of writing, this is a post about writing. And these are our writers:
Brave scrivenauts, out on the shoals of imagination. Wading through the pools of doubt, and mucking about in the mud of enlightenment. Probably talking with the crabs or clams of metaphor or simile or something, too…
As always dear passerby you’re welcome to join us for as long or short as you like – simply share what you’re working on and your goal for the next month, and I’ll add you to our list of illustrious weirdos.
Thanks! I don’t think we’ve written about it elsewhere but it’s a favorite rant of mine so I’m happy to talk about the gulf between self publishing as it is and what I think it could be if folks saw it as its own proud thing rather than a shameful admittance you couldn’t get a big company to buy your story. I’ll think it over and write more in another comment!
As for the bookbinding process I genuinely recommend anyone try it - it’s so much easier than you probably think! Plus of all the hobbies I’ve picked up over the years, it has one of the lowest costs of entry - the starter tools are extremely simple and can be bought at a lot of thrift stores.
If you want to read an amature account of the bookbinding process and the various resources I use, I’ve posted about my own bookbinding projects a few times over on our movim microblog:
https://movim.slrpnk.net/blog/jacobcoffinwrites%40slrpnk.net/bookbinding-the-fully-automated-rulebook-odTqQI
https://movim.slrpnk.net/blog/jacobcoffinwrites%40slrpnk.net/bookbinding-continued-trying-canvas-softcovers-dn0KBu
https://movim.slrpnk.net/blog/jacobcoffinwrites%40slrpnk.net/a-quick-paperback-bookbinding-project-qqhaeW
https://movim.slrpnk.net/blog/jacobcoffinwrites%40slrpnk.net/e0befe7b-8bb3-49d3-ae61-40926c330d2e
https://movim.slrpnk.net/blog/jacobcoffinwrites%40slrpnk.net/hardcover-bookbinding-and-laser-etching-the-bookcloth-UGHW2D
https://movim.slrpnk.net/blog/jacobcoffinwrites%40slrpnk.net/10th-bookbinding-project-the-space-between-dreams-ggveLY
https://movim.slrpnk.net/blog/jacobcoffinwrites%40slrpnk.net/redtail-s-dream-bootleg-hardcover-Oc3jRg
Fun fact! I actually learned about rough mounding here: https://slrpnk.net/post/2293073