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Their Manuskript--from idea to finished

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Your manuscript--from idea to done

Joannie Stangeland 5 Apr 2011 3:30 PM Comments 0

How do you generate ideas? And how do you go from those first ideas through the editing and the polishing to a completed project?

April is National Poetry Month in the U.S. and National Poetry Writing Month, or NaPoWriMo, so I'm seeing lots of prompts and ideas fountaining onto pages and into pixels. But what do you do with all of those scintillating glimmers?

These videos walk you through different ways to get from start of an idea to a finished work. They're a mix of Office 2007 and Office 2010, but the processes work in both.

Doug Thomas tackles idea-generation in his new Office Casual video. And in this video, I show how I capture my poetry ideas anywhere.

Yes, it's in OneNote, but I tend to work a lot in OneNote and Word--my dynamic duo of writing tools.

Those ideas are just the beginning. Next comes the refinement. Again, I use OneNote for my many, many drafts, and then I put the final version in a Word document.

I prefer to work on book-length projects, so at some point I need to pull them all together into a manuscript.

Then I add the finishing touches--page numbers, a table of contents, and cover pages.

Now to get it out into the world. I track where I'm sending my manuscript so that I don't miss an opportunity and I don't spend time and postage sending to the same place.

(I can also use Outlook and OneNote to make sure I don't miss a deadline.)

You can submit your own helpful how-to Office videos to Office.com, and help others go from start to success.

-- Joannie Stangeland