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Re: Andrew Peterson – Helping Bono Find What He’s Looking For

Robert Treskillard — Thu, 05 May 2016 18:58:44 -0000

As an example of honesty in Andrew's own music, take his heart-wrenching and soul-baring song, "The Rain Keeps Falling". https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Re: Andrew Peterson – Helping Bono Find What He’s Looking For

Robert Treskillard — Thu, 05 May 2016 18:47:35 -0000

You agree with Bono, but what you say seems to agree with Andrew as well. He says the same thing about the music on the radio that you do and he also points us to Jon Foreman as a good example. Excellent link, btw.

Re: Billy Boyd dreams of a cameo role in The Hobbit

Robert Treskillard — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 08:51:46 -0000

That would be really fun to see Pippin in a cameo shot or two. But if they didn't need him as a hobbit, (although that would be great fun) ... he could be one of the men of Laketown or something. But never an orc. No, I wouldn't like to see him as an orc.

Re: Production of The Hobbit to begin tomorrow

Robert Treskillard — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 18:35:22 -0000

Awesome news! I can hardly wait!

Re: James Nesbitt finds Hobbit relocation a struggle

Robert Treskillard — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 13:51:01 -0000

Thanks for the update ... hopefully Peter Jackson will be back on his feet soon and feeling better.

Re: Four Reasons Why the Sales Growth of e-Books Will Be Slower Than Industry Executives Think

Robert Treskillard — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 20:28:17 -0000

Michael,

I wonder, though, if the 50% statistic indicates a predicted amount of growth in the market rather than cannibalizing traditional-book sales. Certainly the younger generation will be more likely to read, and therefore purchase an electronic book if they can read it on their techno-devices.

I also wonder how much of the MP3 sales percentage is also affected by generation gaps. My in-laws have an MP3 player, but they purchase CDs and then rip them because CDs are what they are used to.

Part of that might have to do with not trusting digital content due to the possibility of losing it to a hard drive crash. With the "Amazon Cloud" guaranteeing that you can't lose a book, that might encourage the older generation to jump on board the digital book bandwagon.

If both the younger and the older have these barriers taken down, isn't it possible that books could move faster into digital than audio? I'm not saying that 50% by 2014 makes sense, but could it catch up to digital music sales?

After all ... people have already been broken in to the concept ... digital music is smoothing the way.

Just my thoughts. I'd appreciate your feedback, Michael.

-Robert

Re: The Fiddler's Gun: Outbound! | Publishing | The Fiddler's Gun

Robert Treskillard — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:19:28 -0000

CONGRATS! I'll be waiting at my mailbox for my pre-order! (Although it's a Christmas gift, so I guess I'll have to hide it. Ahhhggg!!!)

Re: Poem – The Price of Renewal

Robert Treskillard — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:53:02 -0000

As always, you have great stuff here, Marcus! I need to stop by more often.

How's your book coming?

Re: Typesetting | Publishing | The Fiddler's Gun

Robert Treskillard — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:23:13 -0000

So is InDesign the new name for Pagemaker?

I taught people how to use Pagemaker on the Macintosh back in 1988 ... wow, I bet its changed a lot since then.

-Robert

Re: Typesetting | Publishing | The Fiddler's Gun

Robert Treskillard — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:38:46 -0000

PDF: looks great.
Writing: fantastic.

I wasn't aware of InDesign's existence, so this is good to know about. Too bad a properly book formatted Word doc can't be converted, but I suppose there is a lot more involved than Word can do.

Re: Pressing Matters | Publishing | The Fiddler's Gun

Robert Treskillard — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 08:34:19 -0000

You're making great progress, Pete! It's a lot to learn, but the second time through should be easier. My daughter is planning to "independently publish" her novel (I like that), so I'm following you with keen eyes because I'll be helping her through the same process soon.

Re: Developing the Cover | Artwork, Design | The Fiddler's Gun

Robert Treskillard — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:44:42 -0000

Sounds great, Pete. The cover is an exciting step!

Re: Why Independent? | Writing, Publishing, Marketing | The Fiddler's Gun

Robert Treskillard — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:02:45 -0000

You've given a good analysis of the current publishing climate, Pete.

Thanks for taking a stand.

Re: Working Toward Ten Thousand Hours | Writing | The Fiddler's Gun

Robert Treskillard — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:25:54 -0000

Way to go, Pete!

And what you create with that master's skill will stick around blessing people for a long, long time.

-Robert

Re: An Example of Editing | Editing | The Fiddler's Gun

Robert Treskillard — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:21:26 -0000

Pete,

I thought about the "split infinitive" advice I gave above, and not being *that* strongly steeped in grammar (my wife is), I wondered how really important that issue is, so I read the wikipedia article on it at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

And you know what, I don't think its that big of a deal, and splitting infinitives can actually make the text clearer. I didn't even know I was giving controversial advice!

Hey, on self-publishing, you might want to email Scott Appleton over at "The Flaming Pen", since he used his own printer just like you're planning on doing. He might have some advice. http://www.flamingpen.blogs...

God's blessings on your writing!

-Robert

Re: An Example of Editing | Editing | The Fiddler's Gun

Robert Treskillard — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:05:43 -0000

Oh, I just noticed that both the 3rd and 4th paragraphs (my breaking) duplicates the words "so large". I had not seen it before, so maybe its "nae a worry".

Editing is tough! I struggle mightily with it myself...

Re: An Example of Editing | Editing | The Fiddler's Gun

Robert Treskillard — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:04:28 -0000

One comment. In the text, you wrote:

Fin thought she’d have to spend half of hers to even lift the sack

I'm not sure if that's a split infinitive or not? what do you think of:

Fin thought she’d have to spend half of hers even to lift the sack

Also, here's an idea on how to paragraph it based on Randy Ingermanson's MRU's, where you show impartially something in one paragraph, and then start a new paragraph when you get into your characters head, going back and forth through the story:

When they moored in Philadelphia again, two weeks after the Whistle, they had a hold full of imports from Britain to unload. For two days they wheeled ‘round the capstan to lift up the ill-gotten fare and wheeled it ‘round again to lower the crates to the wharf.

Fin, too small to offer significant help at the capstan, fetched wagons and delivered their take to warehouses up and down the waterfront.

After Creache paid the Congress its share, the take was so large that he easily made good on his claim of riches by paying each sailor his due in bags of coin.

Fin's was so large that she thought she’d have to spend half of hers to even lift the sack. She bought some well-fitted boots, new trousers, a cedar sailor’s trunk, and a leather vest that better concealed the secrets beneath her shirt. She ate well and drank well and spent money, for which she had little use, on frivolous things. And she took time to write, to tell Peter she was safe and sure.

Just an idea, Pete, you've got a great story here!

-Robert