[stylist] Last night's gathering

[Robert Jaquiss]

Hello:

     If you want to get a picture into a computer, draw it and use a scanner 
to scan the image. You could try using colored ballpoint pens on a raised 
line drawing board,and scanning the plastic sheet. You will need a very 
white piece of paper behind the plastic and you MUST! use a flatbed scanner. 
Hope this helps.

Regards,

Robert

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Judith Bron" <jbron at optonline.net>
To: "Writer's Division Mailing List" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, May 24, 2010 3:39 PM
Subject: Re: [stylist] Last night's gathering


> Carry, Since I'm technologically challenged, I have no idea how you would 
> transfer a sketch or drawing to the computer.  Did you ever think of using 
> already drawn pictures that are already done as graphics?  Just a thought, 
> Judith
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Kerry Thompson" <uinen at earthlink.net>
> To: <stylist at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Monday, May 24, 2010 3:53 PM
> Subject: [stylist] Last night's gathering
>
>
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I enjoyed the phone call last night.
>>
>> The reception of my work was very encouraging. Everyone laughed in the 
>> right places and no one laughed in the wrong places, which is even more 
>> important. Thank you all for listening. As I said at the time, hearing 
>> Jim read it was a real treat for me. I almost never hear my work read by 
>> a real live human. It's a great comfort to find that the rhythms and 
>> cadences I hear in my mind are more or less right.
>>
>> It was very enjoyable to hear everyone elses work. Marilyn's poem is 
>> poignant. She paints a clear picture of a lonely woman at loose ends. I 
>> agree that it needs some more polishing, but overall, I found the poem 
>> effecting.
>>
>> Myrna's poem is sweet and whistful, quite lovely. The feeling, the mood 
>> of it lingers in my mind. The only complaint I have is that Myrna kept 
>> apologizing for its being so short. There's no need to apologize. A poem 
>> is the length and shape and form it needs to be. In this case, any longer 
>> and the delicacy of the moment the poem describes would have been ruined. 
>> A poem is what it is. Never force it and never apologize for or attempt 
>> to justify it.
>>
>> Of course, because of my own proclivities, I particularly enjoyed Sean's 
>> story and Lori's fragment. I really do want more, Lori. Maybe you could 
>> post further sections to Stylist?
>>
>> On a different subject: I've talked to Robert and, well, I'll have to 
>> talk to our treasurer as well  but it appears that there's a good 
>> possibility we can offer payment to anthology contributors. 
>> Unfortunately, the treasurer is going abroad with Robert for several 
>> weeks, so the details can't be worked out at once. But, I very much hope 
>> that, a little later in the Summer, checks can start going out to our 
>> contributors.
>>
>> This means a lot to me. I'd been troubled for some time about our 
>> inability to pay. I feel a whole lot better about the project now.
>>
>> Also, Robert has agreed to let me create the CDROM of the anthology. I'm 
>> so excited! I love creating web sites and, after all, a CDROM is a web 
>> site on a disc.
>>
>> That reminds me... Can anyone contribute, or tell me where I might find, 
>> simple pen and ink drawings to illustrate each of the four holiday 
>> categories? Not only are my hands crippled but, more importantly, I never 
>> had any artistic ability. Maybe there's someone on this list with some 
>> vision and some talent for drawing?
>>
>> I'm thinking large or medium sized versions of the drawings would be used 
>> in the print book at the beginning of each section, and small versions 
>> used for the same purpose on the CDROM. Just an idea, but I figured I'd 
>> ask here before looking anywhere else.
>>
>> Solidarity and Peace,
>> Kerry
>>
>>
>>
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