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  • Book Project: #21 Title Revisited

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    The evolution of the book’s narrative has got to a point where I can settle on a title: 4 Generations and a Migration.  While the globalization-cultural theme remains, my preference is to leave that a little more under the covers. An interpretation for the reader to draw; developed after some reflection (if they get there). On…

  • Book Project: #20 Transferring to the Page

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    Book Project: #20 Transferring to the Page

    It is now at the point where all the pieces need to come together — the images; text; pacing — to form the physical artifact.   From the outset, I have imagined the book as a series of chapters: an introduction, followed by chapters for each generation, etc.  My initial thought was to structure these…

  • Book Project: #19 Adding Text

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    It’s now come time to add the textual component.  While the images themselves convey a narrative, text can be used to fill in gaps or give more context to the reader to allow them to form more questions; to be left with more ambiguity.   I need the text to do a few things: Text…

  • Book Project: #18 Elements of Pace and Rhythm

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    Pace is the rate at which one delivers the content; the exposition of the narrative. A book always has pace; the question is whether it is planned or not.  To make a book interesting, the pace should vary  throughout the book.  The rhythm of a book is a reflection of the pace as it ebbs and…

  • Book Project: #17 Tuning the Narrative

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    Book Project: #17 Tuning the Narrative

    As I concluded in the previous post, the wedding pictures formed the spine of the main narrative. I positioned them as chapter headings to be followed by further details within. 1922 1952 2016 Within each chapter I wanted to include some images that conveyed the notion of family.  The ones selected came down to what…