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Costs of Living Anthology Updates, Early July 2024

I had a good chunk of time on the airplane to Amsterdam yesterday, and I used a few hours to work on the text pour for Costs of Living.

I’ve sent editorial notes to 25 of 35 contributing authors (the other ten are in the hopper for the coming days), and I’ve gotten most of those stories lined up for pouring.

FNG note: The text pour stage of development is the phase in which I take the edited stories and dump the text into a piece of software (in this case, Vellum, which goes on discount once per year or so) where I’ll do my layout work.

I also poured the contributing author bios into the software, and all told, about 38k words (out of about 80k total words) are in the program and have gotten their first once-over.

The mission now is to get all the texts back from authors in the next few weeks so I can have all our words into Vellum for interior design and layout work.

Note: the featured image for this post does not represent the final (or even tentative) arrangement of stories. I just dumped them all into the program as I came across them.

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