Oopsie-Editable PDF Lost

So….this is a little awkward. I had about ten pages illustrated in my first chapter and then boom, gone. You see, Illustrator has this awesome function that allows you to edit a PDF with vector images still intact. So for the past year or so, I’ve been opening the files at school to use as…

I think I’de like to write a book.

Today is the day that I finished the meat and potatoes of my 1st draft. I was so excited that I ran to FedEx to print out a copy on 11×17 paper so that I can start taping them to my wall for proof reading and storyboard creation. I have to condense the two activities…

Update: Completed Chapter

I am happy to say that after a long time coming, a just finished my chapter on Agriculture. I now have one and half more chapters before I complete all of my content for the text. I continue to take my online design for publishing course and that is going pretty well. I love learning…

Comic Panels

My online design course is asking that I create one new piece of SOMETHING every single day for one month. Today I worked on some comic panel ideas for my pages. Right now, I am only in my writing phase, though I can start to see the light at the end of the tunnel. It…

Interview with Colin Wright-Creator of Exile Lifestyle

It is easy to fall in love with Colin Wright’s lifestyle choice. Just from reading his emails and blog, anyone can see that he is a highly driven, immaterial, and creative individual living a seemingly vagabond lifestyle in which I have become extremely jealous. He is the instructor of my 4-week online course on design…

INTRO TO DESIGN FOR PUBLISHING

I just signed up for an online course on design for publishing. I found it through a self-publisher whose blog I follow, named Colin Wright. This guy is amazing and I encourage you to go to his website and get inspired, I know that I do! As I continue to write my textbook, I am…

Setbacks

We can tell ourselves all that we want that there are 1,000,000,000 reasons that we could not find time to sit down and get something done. In my case, writing this book is throwing me every opportunity to procrastinate. Though there are times when life just has its way with you and you have to…

Inspiration: Latino USA – A Cartoon History

For about ten years I have had Latino USA: A Cartoon History on my bookshelf in the back of my classroom. I think that it is difficult for anyone in the genre of non-fiction and graphic/comics to give a title to the genre, but I think it safely falls into the “graphic non-fiction” section. I…

Chapter 3 on Culture Finally Finished!

Holy Cow! Here I am three weeks later than I hoped, but I finally finished my chapter on culture. I should have known that this chapter was going to take longer since I realized that it was really included five subtopics: Gender, Ethnicity, Cultural DIffusion, Language, and Religion. The chapter is massive. School starts in…

A Rabbi, an Imam, and a Pastor all Walk into a Juice Bar

Words can not even begin to describe how difficult this past unit has been to write. This unit consists of language and religion components. The language section flew by and then I began to teach three weeks of summer school which really put a hit on my dedication to writing this thing. Now that I…

Chapter 2 of 7 Completed!

I am excited to say that I am officially done laying down the text for my chapter on political geography.  It took me about a week longer than I hoped, but I it is one of the longer units to cover.  I am going to set the chapter aside for now and start organizing my…

One Tough Chapter to Write: Revising Revisionism for Revisionists

My unit on political geography is proving to be more difficult to write than I thought. I was hoping to finish it earlier this week, but double checking my facts on history have slowed me up.  I am doing my absolute best to make sure that any time I reference history, I am very careful…