photo by Tina Phillips
So I am writing an e-book, but I didn’t realize how different and untraditional it will be. My creative writing degree can’t help me with learning how to format my writing into html. They don’t teach this to creative writing students or at least in the last decade it never became an option. I think that in the next decade we will see that it will be important to have courses in college on this subject.
Cracking the spine of a fresh book will be a thing of the past. The Kindle, Nook and iPad are taking reading to a different level and I guess trees will be saved because of it.
The world will always need writers, but the world will change the way it reads. This is where I as a writer must conform and learn how to write for a different generation. A generation that clings to electronic devices. I have to learn about self-publishing via Amazon and Barnes & Noble. I have to learn how to design e-book covers and formatting the text of my books to be read on these newfangled devices.
So I am welcomed to a new kind of writing; one that I never learned about in obtaining my degree. In starting my novel, I have learned that there is even writing software to help me organize myself for the writing part of this journey. I plan to keep a little tradition and do the planning like all other novelists of the past. I have to keep some things traditional in this world of new gadgets and new ways of publishing.
(photo by Tina Phillips. To visit her portfolio you may go to the following link: http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/images/view_photog.php?photogid=503)
Sunshine Overrated 