{"id":4911,"date":"2017-12-03T08:37:39","date_gmt":"2017-12-03T07:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kerstinpur.de\/?p=4911"},"modified":"2025-02-04T10:25:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T09:25:49","slug":"i-am-writing-a-book-and-it-will-be-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/en\/ich-schreibe-ein-buch-und-es-wird-quadratisch\/","title":{"rendered":"I'm writing a book - it will be square"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It's no secret: I love squares.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-4913\" src=\"https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_1472-e1511800525367-241x300.jpg\" width=\"172\" height=\"214\" \/>Maybe that's because my sister, who was 10 years younger, always drew her artwork - here you can see the king, queen and giraffe - on the square pieces of paper that were available in abundance as promotional gifts in our house. Good art is square - I learnt that early on.<\/p>\n<p>I collected the pictures for her and stuck them in a book for her 18th birthday.<\/p>\n<p>But apart from my family history, I find squares very aesthetically pleasing and like to choose them as the format for my publications.<\/p>\n<p>When I decided to summarise the 50+ most important sentences that I have formulated and collected over the course of my life, it was clear that it would be a square.<\/p>\n<h3>Format<\/h3>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-4961\" src=\"https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/DGL_aufgeschlagen_a-300x200.jpg\" width=\"308\" height=\"205\" \/>Now the only question to be answered was: How big should <a href=\"https:\/\/www.down-to-earth.de\/detail\/index\/sArticle\/3670\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">The good life<\/a> become?<\/p>\n<p>In this case, I actually had to try out what worked well to accommodate the text and images. I first cut out the possible formats on pieces of paper, but it wasn't quite right yet. Then the print shop kindly sent me a sample - a dummy. At first, my graphic designer and I thought of 18 x 18 centimetres - but when I held it in my hands, it became clear that the small format would be far too compact for the many pages.<\/p>\n<p>The white pattern book has now found a place on my sofa. There I collect texts and impulses - sorted according to the 8 categories of Swing - that inspire me to pray and live a good life.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Autorin und Verlegerin liebt Quadrate &#8211; auch als Form f\u00fcr B\u00fccher. 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