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Posted by: Unpublished Guy on 7/4/2009 | 2 Comments

The fourth of July and four days into July Novel Writing Month. Four days of staring at a blank page wondering what font I should be using to write my novel. I settled on Verdana. I prefer sans serif, but it's not as overused as Arial.

Now that I have font selection settled, I have to figure out what the novel should be about. I suppose I could brainstorm, but I've decided to dredge up one of my older short stories and repurpose it as a novel length story. The particular story I had in mind was originally intended to be a multi-layered tome of symbolism like Moby Dick, except the source of my ambition was the epic poem, Jerusalem, by William Blake.

Posted by: Unpublished Guy on 5/4/2009 | 0 Comments
One of the most important things, as any unpublished writer knows, is what font to select as their default font while they write their fiction. Some writers don’t even use a word processor. They use a text editor, so they aren’t distracted from their writing with such trivial decisions as font selection. I say, “Nonsense. If you are going to invest all the time and effort into writing a short story, shouldn’t it be typeset in a font worthy of your creative genius.” Before I begin writing a short story, I spend one to two hours vacillating between various exciting font possibilities.
 


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