Ep. 258: Sol Rébora and Cellphone-Size schedule

Bookbinder of the Week:

Sol Rébora

Ms Rébora is a bookbinder out of Buenos Aires, Argentina where bookbinders are few. She has some excellent work – French style, multi-leather, and fascinating designs – that can be seen on her website: Estudio Rebora. 

Here’s an interview with her at Herringbone Bindery which has two more interviews with her.

There’s an interview with Ms Rébora in the Pamela Train Leutz tome The Threads That Bind. She is also on Facebook here. 

Bookbinding

I worked on a cellphone-sized schedule that took me way too long; days and days of arranging, rearranging, and manipulating days, dates, and weeks to fit in the smaller size. I didn’t want to make the numbers so small they were invisible, but I didn’t have all that much room to work with either.

It was a challenge that came at a time when I either didn’t need a challenge or it was exactly what I needed. Last week I said a family member was taken to the hospital; they are still in the hospital so my area of concentration is not on bookbinding (or fiction). However, a distraction away from the medical might just be the medicine I require. 

In any case, it worked. I fudged yearly, monthly, and weekly calendars around until everything fit nicely. I eliminated some decorations and reduced the number of fonts to make it smoother and more elegant (?). I printed out five copies until I finally got a copy that was good. I cut them out of the B5 page they were printed on. I folded them up to make sure everything matched (they did). I checked them and, of course, found four copies had mistakes and had to be discarded.

Fiction

I didn't so much as write much as read and consider. I tweaked. I added to the outline. I thought about it some more. This has already been designated as My Long Novel but how slow should it develop? 

One thing I considered was the sun. I had an entire section where the three main characters are facing the sunrise. One minor problem: They were facing the wrong way. They are on surfboards and facing land. The sun comes up in the east in Japan and they were facing west. Oops. Decided to have them watch the sun’s rays hit the land instead of watch the sun rise.

By the way, this happened to me in real life, too. I sat at a train station to wait for the sun to rise up over the city I was facing only to have the sun rise up behind the station.