The book making process

I am going to talk to you about making books.

First, our entire class had to create plots for our stories. We had to think of characters and the title. Then, when our composition teacher okayed it, we went on the computer and worked on a first draft. We had a deadline so it had to be done before Christmas Break. We were under pressure. After our first draft, we peer evaluated each others for mistakes. It showed me other ways to put my story, context wise.

We then typed another copy with all the corrections made and showed it to our teacher, who made more corrections. We then got it back and more corrections. This goes on until the story is perfect. When our stories are perfect, we write them one last time and then use the Cute PDF writer and save each page separetly.

We then put all the pages onto the network along with our illustrations and let the teacher ok them and then we are done with the process. All we have to do is wait for the network to publish our books.*

After about 2 weeks, we got our books back. They were nice and looked professional. I was satisfied with how they turned out and everyone else did too. Soon it was time for the Young Author's Fair. It was a success in my eyes. There was a cafe and the fellowship hall was set up like a book store. We had a great Friday night and with my description, you got the inside scoop on Young Authors!


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