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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Upper_Krust" data-source="post: 4982388" data-attributes="member: 326">Hey Ltheb mate! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> Too long amigo. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Not doing too bad thanks for asking, hope you have been keeping well yourself? My strategy for future books is for me to write say, 14 pages which will act as a sort of blueprint for the other writers. I'll give them 6 weeks to turn in their 14 pages. While they are writing I will do the interior art and commission the cover. I am working towards a quicker art style.So hopefully a turnover of about 2 months per 64 page pdf/book will be (theoretically) possible.The key is for me to have the work done first. I have a month off coming up in February (and again in May) so it should be fairly easy to keep ahead of the game.I recently upgraded to Adobe INDesign CS4. Considering I was using Pagemaker 6.5 previously thats a big step-up. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/glasses.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt="B-)" title="Glasses    B-)" data-shortname="B-)" /> Hopefully by writing my sections first I can 'compartmentalise' the work of the others, and give them enough ideas to act as a springboard for their own ideas.I have the mechanics ironed out. From my investigations you don't need to make a lot of changes above 30th. In fact I think I have only made two.I am very confident I have the Legendary Tier 'sussed'. I am however, worried about the Immortal Tier and (eventual) Sidereal Tiers. Should Dimensions replace Portfolios at the Immortal Tier or should they be saved for Sidereals only? Should Classes continue into the Sidereal Tiers or should something else replace those? etc.Well if we can all arrange (perhaps bi-weekly) meet dates on MSN Messenger I think we could iron out any problems.Of course individuals can always be contacted via email.I haven't even chosen the writers yet. I don't think a physical meet-up would be applicable.It would be nice if everyone was using a version of Adobe InDesign, but its not crucial. Copying and pasting (then tweaking) of about 14 pages won't take more than an hour at the most. So even if someone is sending in Word documents its not that much of an annoyance.The page counts won't be set in stone, but I'd need a good reason for breaking them.If we get everything done in 6 weeks then we can have 2 weeks for each of us to read over it and comment on possible problems or design flaws. I have so many ideas that its going to be a massive shame to waste them. Just for fun I worked out a schedule the other day and even assuming a book every 2 months I had enough ideas to take us up to 2020 or something like that. Obviously I don't see that happening, but it just gives you an glimpse into how many ideas there are waiting in the wings.As I always said, I don't consider myself anything more than a competent writer.Well I can throw you into the mix if you want. I won't be deciding who's in until probably December.Every Achilles has a heel.</blockquote>

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