John, Personally, I think the best way (and less work involved for all of us) is for me to just collect the stories and edit as necessary. Then compile each into it's own chapter. I'd say a good length for each "author's" chapter would be about 5-6 pages. *Thanks, ~Annie* email: lsandrsn@gmail.com On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 5:28 AM, John Jensen <bluesbug@verizon.net> wrote: > One thing we might want to think about is whether we (you) will just > collect the stories and put them together more or less as given, with just > editing for grammar, spelling and simple errors in logic; or if we (you) > might want to take another approach and create a narrative which contains > the elements of various peoples stories. A possible example of the latter: > In California there were seventeen young men who bought splittie VW's and > most of them were in decent running condition. Of these seventeen, two > actually assembled their Westies from parts from the junk yard. > I suppose the answers to these sorts of questions will become evident when > the submissions start rolling in. I'm mulling over some possibilities > myself. > Annie, what sort of Vanagon are you mixed up with? > > John Jensen > johnjensen@johnjensenartist.**com <johnjensen@johnjensenartist.com> > http://www.johnjensenartist.**com <http://www.johnjensenartist.com> > bluesbug@verizon.net > > > > |
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