I have a post up at the Mad Genius Club this morning. The First Reader will have a post up here later today.
And I'm not talking about describing the gory bits in gruesome detail. No, I had planned to do a walk-through tutorial today about creating a logo for your writing business. I hadn't anticipated two things. One, to do a proper logo you need to create a vector file rather than image or illustration. I'll get into what that means when I do the post - for today it matters because a week ago I ended my subscription to the full Adobe Creative Cloud, dropping back to Photoshop and Lightroom, and that means I don't have Adobe Illustrator for showing how to do a logo. Which isn't a bad thing, because most of you don't have that, either, or you wouldn't be asking me to show you how to do this. I did a little research, and downloaded Inkscape, the cousin of my favorite freeware graphic program, Gimp. Then I ran into the second thing I hadn't planned on. You see, I'm getting married next week. I'm also traveling for several days attendant to that. I am afraid I ran out of time this week to teach myself Inkscape and create a tutorial. So! I put together some odds and ends of graphic design projects that can be useful to you all, and one that I was specifically asked for. I will be around to chat in comments, so feel free to ask questions. Oh, and Amanda wanted me to point out that things I discuss in this post, like guides and flattening layers, are pertinent to those of you working on print covers. So pay attention!