Who gets their inspiration for their book from Pokemon?

How I built a pipeline that makes a "We are so Pro - Blue" and "We are so Pro - Red" possible

• I promise this isn't a political statement
• This might sound boring, but it excites me so much
• This is where my nerdy side comes out, be aware

What Does the Pipeline Do?

The way I put together this book is as follows.

• I have each chapter broken out in a separate file
• I work on one chapter at a time, and make edits
• Make edits until I'm happy
• Then I put the chapters together when I think my book is ready

So I created a python script that glues the chapters together, this allows me to remain focused on a single chapter on my editing rounds.

Knowing the "final" round is never actually the final round, I could simply edit the individual chapters instead of making the copy changes in the full manuscript.

Okay, so what?

This actually worked out so much more useful than I expected because it allowed me to:

• Readjust the order of the chapters at ease
• I could anonymize my characters and places simply by changing the script
• Still worked with original names because this helped stay connected to the emotions
• This is the coolest part. I merged characters simply by making them have the same name
• Now I can run the script once to create the public copy, and run the script again create a copy with the real names

Why LibreOffice?

Google Docs did not let me make the appropriate page size setups, so I didn't know how many pages my book was.

I still needed professional formatting and spellcheck.

LibreOffice is free.

Enough Talk, show me the real deal

If you are interested in using a similar pipeline, check out the Github page with instructions

Feel free to fork and share!