I’m thinking of taking a break between first and second drafts to generate the thing into an ebook end to end and see how it reads in that form. It’s easy to do that in a basic way, but I was thinking of treating it as an educational project. I’m talking about actually preparing the necessary front matter and whatever other bits are needed to squeeze it correctly and cleanly out of Scrivener. Then, from there, possibly further, by running it through into the iBook Author program, or whatever it’s called, to add bells and whistles and spinning pinwheels.
I actually do have a few pinwheels in mind for the final draft, though I’m not sure about bothering with them on early test runs. Either way, it should be worth some bloggage later.
Anyway, I think it’ll be a good trial run of the material. Any obvious holes and errors should stand out, for one thing. Hopefully it’ll also serve the purpose of seeing the material in a different medium. Writers’ lore says to read it out loud, or have someone else do so, in order to experience the (your) same words in different ways. I think that’s interesting in principle, and I could see trying that out too. But I don’t think anyone’s going to want to read 800 pages of first draft aloud.
So, a first-draft ebook it will be. To one extent or another.
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