I'm not going to go into all the reasons that I stopped blogging. But now I've decided to resume. If you were a former subscriber or if you are new to my blog, you now have the option of receiving new postings by email. You'll find the subscription box at the top of the page. So please sign up!
What have I been up to since I last blogged? Proposal writing, of course -- sprinkled in between with a few other things like proposal reviews and criitiques, editing and the like. For the past few weeks, I've been revamping a major manual for one of my clients. This has been a rather interesting but frustrating experience. I've written a lot of manuals from scratch, but this client wanted an updated version of an existing manual that is about 250 pages long.
The first step in the process involved gathering the info that they wanted updated. Sounds easy, no? Well, it started off being easy. I was given some written materials to start with. What the client wanted me to do was to take this 250 page document and lay it out so that when you opened it, the proposed changes were on the left page and the original version was on the right-hand facing page, so that it looked like this:
Hahaha. Just try doing something like this in Word with a 250-page document. Some of the comments and proposed changes were so long that they went on for 2-3 pages. When this happened, everything shifted so that the orginal pages or parts of them sometimes ended up on the left side instead of the right side and vice versa. Never, never, never try to do anything like this.
More to come on this exciting task.
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