Lulu

Received in the mail today: four printed copies of my first draft from lulu.com. Why would I have a 6"x9" perfect-bound book made out of my first draft? I guess because I'm proud of having finished my story within the month of November, and this is the first time I've written this much on a story before, and this is the first time I've won NaNoWriMo (in addition to it being my first attempt). What can I say? I was excited.

The front cover uses a canned image of clouds and lightning, and the title shows up nicely there. My name at the bottom in white looks weird to me. In my opinion, it's too big. Then again, when I feel insecure about stuff, I want it to be as close to invisible as possible.

The spine looks alright. I selected a beige-ish color, and it goes well with the cover.

The back cover has a picture of me, but my face is all blotchy in the print. Maybe my face is normally like that, but I'd rather that printed pictures of me be touched up a bit, I guess.

On the inside, we jump STRAIGHT INTO THE STORY. Oops! I totally spaced that you might want little things like title page, table of contents, things of that nature. The print itself is a little bigger than I would normally like. It's almost an easy-reading edition! That's why it reached 150 pages.

All in all, I'm happy with how it turned out. I bought four copies: one to put on the shelf for posterity (and future embarassment), one for my friend who wants to know how the story ends, one for my girlfriend who had to put up with me writing all month, and one for me to totally make notes in and treat like the first draft little bitch that it is.