tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post4838998150147915705..comments2023-10-11T09:22:33.136-04:00Comments on Paperback Writer: RW: Book MakingUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger54125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-2804005355707876752007-08-31T22:46:00.000-04:002007-08-31T22:46:00.000-04:00I would take a story I wrote for my best friend (a...I would take a story I wrote for my best friend (a graduation present when we were still in high school), and give her a much better copy than the one she did have. It's been over 10 years, I think she deserves and upgrade!witchofbreithlahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12376853333742588353noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-22464418527383103292007-08-31T10:20:00.000-04:002007-08-31T10:20:00.000-04:00I'd love to make a scrapbook of the best and funni...I'd love to make a scrapbook of the best and funniest emails I've gotten from friends over the years, and of the poems I used to write them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-7462920278268014442007-08-30T20:00:00.000-04:002007-08-30T20:00:00.000-04:00I would write and illustrate a children's book ide...I would write and illustrate a children's book idea I've been working on.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-41844687810374291752007-08-30T19:55:00.000-04:002007-08-30T19:55:00.000-04:00I would love to make a book of proverbs from all t...I would love to make a book of proverbs from all the different schools of thought.Reneehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10661396654827059313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-5474473448330350492007-08-30T03:08:00.000-04:002007-08-30T03:08:00.000-04:00I would make a book for myself. Not motivated by s...I would make a book for myself. Not motivated by selfishness, but by remembering - I would make a book to rememember who I was later in life.Konekohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00389949936144111585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-15970138686269944682007-08-29T22:54:00.000-04:002007-08-29T22:54:00.000-04:00I think if I were going to put together a book mys...I think if I were going to put together a book myself it would be a book of all the letters my boyfriend and I wrote to each other when we were...courting each other, I guess. We had a period of time before we got together when we were best friends, but I was still with my, now, ex-boyfriend. I kept trying to end it and he kept threatening to kill himself. In that period of time my, now, boyfriend and I started writing each other letters. They would be nice to have collected in a book. Perhaps as a wedding gift to him.Katherine Hazenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01501757978596809805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-67051838948519637612007-08-29T22:18:00.000-04:002007-08-29T22:18:00.000-04:00What a wonderful hobby and a lovely offer on your ...What a wonderful hobby and a lovely offer on your part. Since I'm single and my dogs are my children, I'd fill it with all things related to my girls - past and present. Then it would be filled with love.The Anti-Wifehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02027321787352577548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-49899429883714264022007-08-29T20:39:00.000-04:002007-08-29T20:39:00.000-04:00I've made some books for friends before as gifts.....I've made some books for friends before as gifts...much less elaborate though! I'd basically print them out and then make a nice cover. If I were to make a handmade book for something, though, I think it would be a book of my poetry, either for myself or to give to my boyfriend (hopelessly romantic, I know). Or to use as a personal journal. Great idea =)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02311818209680555201noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-60706619661042647482007-08-29T20:07:00.001-04:002007-08-29T20:07:00.001-04:00I'd make books of family favourite recipes to shar...I'd make books of family favourite recipes to share and a knitting journal for me.<BR/><BR/>I've made some little books before, but I wasn't entirely happy with how the bindings turned out. I keep thinking that one of these days I should figure out how to do it properly.ikkinlalahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04832919596884346022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-83135774417160323762007-08-29T20:07:00.000-04:002007-08-29T20:07:00.000-04:00I'd make a book for my poetry, journals for my mom...I'd make a book for my poetry, journals for my mom, my sisters and my niece, and small reading journals for friends. This is a cool idea. Thanks Lynn.Annhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17968479919482739686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-41927931941051921242007-08-29T19:21:00.000-04:002007-08-29T19:21:00.000-04:00I'd make a book, a happy book, of all the things I...I'd make a book, a happy book, of all the things I've lost -- in moves, through carelessness, by theft or breakage. I'd include photos and drawings. And there I'd have the quilt my mother made me when I was six; my great-grandmother's blue vase; a pocketwatch; the coin purse my grandma bought me; the ring my sister and I both wore.Ann Paihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00724130614932607020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-52916511129229757152007-08-29T19:08:00.000-04:002007-08-29T19:08:00.000-04:00My sixth grade teacher had us write a short story,...My sixth grade teacher had us write a short story, illustrate it, laminate it, and bind it for our "grammar" credit. My mom still has it.<BR/><BR/>Ironically, even then I had a sarcastic sense of humor. The princess and dragon in the story don't fall in love but snark at each other.<BR/><BR/>Now, I sometimes write things down just to get them out of my head. A particularly funny conversation I had with a friend. A conversation I wish I'd had with a stranger. A chance and imaginary meeting with a celebrity or a literary character or a cartoon character or whatever. Thoughts on politics that I wouldn't share with anyone. Snippets of particularly vivid dreams. Even sketches and doodles that catch my fancy after I'm done with them. Names. Interesting twists of phrase.<BR/><BR/>I don't keep a diary, but if I did, it would be these little snippets of my disorganized and always moving mind, and it would probably be handbound. Because I'm odd like that.GutterBallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17943760313844692975noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-33751252857972115352007-08-29T18:50:00.000-04:002007-08-29T18:50:00.000-04:00I do scrapbooking but to make the covers for one w...I do scrapbooking but to make the covers for one would be awesome. We've made a family recipe book on my Mom's side and a family history book on my Dad's side and they would be nice to make covers for.<BR/>Please enter me. I love journals and will look into making one.<BR/><BR/>robynlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-56094972567718577312007-08-29T16:26:00.000-04:002007-08-29T16:26:00.000-04:00Haiku. About slugs.Haiku. About slugs.Heatherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07535976976779865138noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-10638108615728356212007-08-29T14:51:00.000-04:002007-08-29T14:51:00.000-04:00I would make a cover incorporating some of my moth...I would make a cover incorporating some of my <A HREF="http://papershew.com" REL="nofollow">mother's paper art</A> (hope you don't mind the family promotion) and the use it for those ideas that strike at random moments. I would put in pictures and pages torn from magazines that trigger a plot point or bring on inspiration.Etoilinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02348484666219343927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-22607268119407150802007-08-29T14:17:00.001-04:002007-08-29T14:17:00.001-04:00I have a bunch of papers my kids wrote when they w...I have a bunch of papers my kids wrote when they were little. I might incorporate them with stories of funny things they did or that happened at different points in their lives.Maureenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16392692656456938856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-52739699185523850842007-08-29T14:17:00.000-04:002007-08-29T14:17:00.000-04:00My cousin and I were thinking of writing children'...My cousin and I were thinking of writing children's books dedicated to her son--well, she'd write them and I'd illustrate. Other than that, I'd probably use them for sketching purposes. Making books/doing the binding yourself sounds a lot more creative than just buying those spirals like I do. Awesome idea, Lynn!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08063570295376485293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-5837387978893026342007-08-29T13:25:00.000-04:002007-08-29T13:25:00.000-04:00All the military history in our family. Both my an...All the military history in our family. Both my and my husband's parents/uncles/grandparents/etc. served in the armed forces -- both reserves and active duty, peacetime and wartime, and my kids need to know all that. The newspaper clippings, the handwritten letters, everything. I want it all in one place.<BR/><BR/>...Whether or not you draw my name out of the hat this time, I think I'm going to start that project. Thanks for this post. =)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-11423841388233185592007-08-29T13:06:00.000-04:002007-08-29T13:06:00.000-04:00If I were making my own book right now I would put...If I were making my own book right now I would put down school memories. I am about to finish my Masters in nursing at 52 and going back to school has been both a challenge and the best time! I've made wonderful memories and met some people who, even at this old age, will affect the shape of me for years to come :)<BR/>I have made books in the past and you are so right... it is worth doing. I came to it through a calligraphy class... we made a class book: everyone made a page in calligraphy and we copied them, then everyone made them into a book... they were lovely and the writing was too:) At the end of that, I was inspired, so when a good friend graduated from nursing school, I made her a book. I embossed the word nurse, one letter on each page, then wrote in a poem I found that I felt pretty well summed up nursing.I was surprised at how well it turned out, and even more surprised by how touched she was to get it. I've made an occasional book since then but those are my favorites.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-49728233793243400652007-08-29T13:03:00.000-04:002007-08-29T13:03:00.000-04:00Maybe I'll create a photo book. Since pictures ar...Maybe I'll create a photo book. Since pictures are easily printed with the new printers, I may put together a book of pictures.<BR/><BR/>IT would be a cool thing to put on the coffee table so others can flip through it.BJ Steeveshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17298555740070972092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-22091642609367890422007-08-29T12:28:00.000-04:002007-08-29T12:28:00.000-04:00For my 40th birthday, I didn't want gifts, but I d...For my 40th birthday, I didn't want gifts, but I did want to create something that would mark the event. I asked my friends to come with something in writing--a poem, a letter, a wish, a saying. Something that had meaning for that particular person and their relationship with me. During the party, I had an alcove set up with scrapbooking materials and by the end, I had a wonderful book. People who weren't able to attend, sent their pages by email and snail mail, so I have this amazing keepsake.<BR/><BR/>The book I would love to make is out of a story I wrote for my youngest son in his toddler years. It is the only children's story I've ever written, or probably ever will write and I'd love to bind it for him as a gift. (He's 11 now.)<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the links, Lynn!Lisa Cohenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07530826748768737972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-8783938005074700892007-08-29T12:27:00.000-04:002007-08-29T12:27:00.000-04:00My husband and I just moved from the city out to o...My husband and I just moved from the city out to our lake cabin, the place where I spent my childhood summers, my teenage weekends, my young-parent vacations with babies, my writing retreats, and now finally my full-time home. Over the next couple of years, we're going to tear down the old cabin (before it falls down on our heads) and build a house.<BR/><BR/>What I'd put in my journal is memories of the old cabin, photos, family stories (my dad learned to walk holding on to the porch railing), important dates (when the ice goes out, when the hummingbirds come back, when the first irises bloom). I can't keep the old place, much as I love it, but I can keep its memory.Jenahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02133037809772078659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-62089864141490164302007-08-29T12:26:00.000-04:002007-08-29T12:26:00.000-04:00Either poetry or a children's book for me.Either poetry or a children's book for me.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02853980637566992330noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-44817312436218272142007-08-29T12:21:00.000-04:002007-08-29T12:21:00.000-04:00I am currently working on a book of our trip to Ch...I am currently working on a book of our trip to Chile a couple years ago. I'm using <A HREF="http://blurb.com" REL="nofollow">Blurb</A>, and it will be very pretty with lots of photos. Kind of like a scrapbook, only without having to scrapbook.Hannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18416332641505948246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-12842364752014059632007-08-29T12:20:00.000-04:002007-08-29T12:20:00.000-04:00I do photography as a hobby so I would make a book...I do photography as a hobby so I would make a book of my favorite photos from over the years.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com