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Formatting Dynamic Thought
Yeah, I've been quiet for a while. I took a break to focus on sewing clothes, as my work clothes have started to fall apart. I think I am up to tossing a handful of underwear, one pair of work jeans, with another hanging on by its last threads, and a good week's worth of old T-shirts. At least four of those T shirts were old enough to get a driver's license! Shirts I've bought within the last five years just don't last beyond two or three years. The crapification of things continues ...
Now that I have a few new things to wear, I am back to working on Dynamic Thought, or the Law of Vibrant Energy. What I am up to now, along with re-listening to the audio and reading along in the text, is the copy-and-paste the text into a Wordpad document. The scanned book I downloaded was/is a library copy from University of California, and after over a century it has picked up smudges and stray marks that copy funny. Due to the nature of book printing back then, it also has narrow margins and a lot of hyphenated words, which is an annoyance for me. I am up to chapter two today.
When I get done copying it into rich text format documents (one per chapter) I plan to print it out and literally take the red pen to it. Yeah, I am planning to basically revise and in places rewrite it. Since William Walker Atkinson self-published most of his books, he missed out on the benefits of a tough-as-nails editor forcing him to improve. (Not that having an editor is a guarantee of that - Stephen King comes to mind. I've said since the first book I've read of his way back thirty years ago that he has all the style and grace of a sixth grader. I was in tenth grade the first time I said that.) Not only to trim off excess verbiage, but to excise a bit of seriously outdated biases that I've mentioned previously.
I'm not sure if anyone is still reading here, but if anyone is, and wants the raw files, or is interested in my rewrite, plunk a comment down here.
Now that I have a few new things to wear, I am back to working on Dynamic Thought, or the Law of Vibrant Energy. What I am up to now, along with re-listening to the audio and reading along in the text, is the copy-and-paste the text into a Wordpad document. The scanned book I downloaded was/is a library copy from University of California, and after over a century it has picked up smudges and stray marks that copy funny. Due to the nature of book printing back then, it also has narrow margins and a lot of hyphenated words, which is an annoyance for me. I am up to chapter two today.
When I get done copying it into rich text format documents (one per chapter) I plan to print it out and literally take the red pen to it. Yeah, I am planning to basically revise and in places rewrite it. Since William Walker Atkinson self-published most of his books, he missed out on the benefits of a tough-as-nails editor forcing him to improve. (Not that having an editor is a guarantee of that - Stephen King comes to mind. I've said since the first book I've read of his way back thirty years ago that he has all the style and grace of a sixth grader. I was in tenth grade the first time I said that.) Not only to trim off excess verbiage, but to excise a bit of seriously outdated biases that I've mentioned previously.
I'm not sure if anyone is still reading here, but if anyone is, and wants the raw files, or is interested in my rewrite, plunk a comment down here.
Where did you get the original scans from?
Where did you get your scans from?
Did you scan the book yourself, or were they on a site somewhere?
Re: Where did you get the original scans from?
(Hmm, talk about good timing - I just decided to take a break after formatting chapter 4 to check here, and apparently you had just posted literally one minute prior.)