This book has been a bear. So much is going on.
Writing, writing, writing…
by CJ | Jul 28, 2014 | Journal | 21 comments
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Neil Gaiman, on writing American Gods:
“It was a bit like wrestling a bear. Some days I was on top. Most days, the bear was on top.”
A problem shared is a problem halved. So just mail me everything you have so far 🙂
Lol.
And to complicate things, somebody wants a file of a story I don’t think I have a file of. Typing in is too long. I’m going to see if I can find it in archive. I’d read it in via Dragon, but since they messed with my computer on repair, I’m going to have to re-train Dragon, and that’s a week unto itself.
I take it this is a story that none of us might have in our collections… If I had it, I’d be happy to scan and OCR it into an rtf file. I can do a 250 page book in an hour … not counting the proof reading which I would insist on.
Can you not just photograph the pages?
As Apf said. Get the pages scanned into a .pdf format. (Staples or your local UPS store, or Mailboxes, etc. should be able to do this.) Later when it’s convenient or someone offers you free OCR software, you’ll have the much easier task of converting from .pdf to something usable.
I can do pdf. The question is can I get a pdf into a word processing file. My mind is mush right now. I’m solving an atevi problem and not thinking in computer.
Adobe Acrobat claims to be able to convert .pdf to Word and/or Excel files, but I’ve never tried it. I’m normally going the other way.
http://blogs.adobe.com/acrobat/acrobat_ocr_make_your_scanned/
Calibre can convert pdf to something more usable. Takes a while, though, and they don’t guarantee the results.
If you count from the middle, the little finger and thumb touching might mean A-OK. May all your dice come up fives!
I’m starting to think of my family tree files in atevi terms. Too damned many cross-connections, and it goes out to a lot of second cousins and a couple of generations each way from in-laws. (Fun: great-uncle of a friend married a cousin of my sister-in-law’s great-grandmother. Which brings in one character who married, joined the infantry in the Civil War, deserted, changed his name, and married at least once (I believe twice) more – and his first-and-legal wife survived him. The second life turned up because he put in for a pension on his service, with both names on it.
I’ve still got problems with the Shejidan site – now I am getting a blank screen -not even the nasty Commodo notice that the site is prohibited!!
pence, contact me at the hotmail email using my screen name ^
A bear? That’d be The Right to Arm Bears, or some such, by Gordon R. Dickson.
Sorry if the pun was unbearable. Oops…. ;D
I could claim Fuzzy-Wuzzy was a bear, but that’d be an H. Beam Piper reference.
Heheheh. Good luck on the current novel and on finding or scanning the other file.
pj, I know what you mean. My paternal branch is tangled enough, but my maternal-maternal is a tangle of people marrying cousins of the same last name, so you get Maria K Maxfield-Maxfield, and there are other such. When people first got off the boat, there was a limited marriage pool, but she had no excuse!
And pence, darn! Well, you’re sure welcome here!
Pence, We’ll try and get you back on to Shejidan.
Fished a couple by Chondrite and Ryan Rick out of the spam filter. That thing is too darn cheeky!
At least I get there eventually. For a while, it swore up and down I was a spammer, and nothing I posted got anywhere near CJ! 😀
I swear, I don’t know why! Some people can post several links and get through; others can post one and get snagged and unless it relates to the server not liking some servers I can’t figure it.