Queen of Squish

[mamadeb]

So. Gatewaygirl finished her opus "Blood Magic" and I read the first 25 or so chapters anyway, and it's been rec'd here, there and everywhere.

And I do have a three day holiday coming up.

I spent spare moments today cutting and pasting 83 chapters into a word file.

Before I did any reformating, it was 941 pages.

I got it down to 91 pages.

Yes, it's still readable with the naked eye.

I'm set for the weekend, even if I didn't just get the latest Terry Pratchett. Which I did.

Comments

[ataniell93.livejournal.com]

Hee hee hee! I've done that. I still do that when I beta. It's a lot easier to catch errors on the printed page than onscreen.

What did you do? I've never had one shrink to 10% before, though by eliminating huge margins and double-spacing, adding first line indents and removing the extra line between paragraphs, and shrinking the font from 12 to 8 or 9 points, I've got it down to 25% before...

[mamadeb.livejournal.com]

Go here. (http://www.livejournal.com/users/mamadeb/139525.html)

Actually, I've been using Ariel Narrow 8pt, although I used 7pt today.

Triple columns really make a difference.