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Folks,
After musing about it for at least a few years, and talking to one or two of you about it at various GTGs, and after being thoroughly inspired by the creative genius amongst us by the name of Zing, I have finally decided to write my book.
While it is early going at this point, I can tell you that it will be a collection of short stories and tales, some somewhat tall, based largely on my life, travels, and adventures.
This should come as no surprise given my proclivity for story telling.
Stories (and musings / observations etc.) will run anywhere from one to a few pages long.
An example, for those who have heard it, will be "Super Mike."
My timeline (again tentative - but I need to have some goals in mind) is as follows:
I will be collecting story ideas until August 30th (I started last week). My goal is to have at least 100 usable ones in hand by then. As of this posting I have 76.
I plan to start writing on September 1st and be done writing by Xmas. I plan to dedicate at least 2 hours per day, Monday - Friday, during that period. I expect that the act of writing each story will jog memories that will lead to more story ideas, but regardless, writing will cease by Xmas.
Over the Xmas holiday I plan to arrange the stories into what I think is a good order and then hand it off to a friend, who is a great copy editor, for a first edit. That could take a month or so. I will then likely hire another professional editor to go through the whole thing again.
During that time I'll then start to get serious about looking into publishing, but my goal, even if I have to self-publish a first edition, is to have actual hard copies ready by June 2015.
I am under no illusions of what I am embarking on here. This may amount to nothing more than a "vanity" publication. If I manage to stage several local book signings and sell a hundred copies in total, I'll be more than happy. What I am most interested in doing, to be completely honest, is in being able to hand copies of the book to my kids and grandkid(s), so that years after I'm long gone, they can crack the pages and get a good laugh from some of the things that amused me so.
I'm starting this thread largely as a "now you can't quit" reminder to myself.
Wish me luck!
Jeff
ps. I guarantee that some of you will probably see your (first) name in a story or two!
After musing about it for at least a few years, and talking to one or two of you about it at various GTGs, and after being thoroughly inspired by the creative genius amongst us by the name of Zing, I have finally decided to write my book.
While it is early going at this point, I can tell you that it will be a collection of short stories and tales, some somewhat tall, based largely on my life, travels, and adventures.
This should come as no surprise given my proclivity for story telling.
Stories (and musings / observations etc.) will run anywhere from one to a few pages long.
An example, for those who have heard it, will be "Super Mike."
My timeline (again tentative - but I need to have some goals in mind) is as follows:
I will be collecting story ideas until August 30th (I started last week). My goal is to have at least 100 usable ones in hand by then. As of this posting I have 76.
I plan to start writing on September 1st and be done writing by Xmas. I plan to dedicate at least 2 hours per day, Monday - Friday, during that period. I expect that the act of writing each story will jog memories that will lead to more story ideas, but regardless, writing will cease by Xmas.
Over the Xmas holiday I plan to arrange the stories into what I think is a good order and then hand it off to a friend, who is a great copy editor, for a first edit. That could take a month or so. I will then likely hire another professional editor to go through the whole thing again.
During that time I'll then start to get serious about looking into publishing, but my goal, even if I have to self-publish a first edition, is to have actual hard copies ready by June 2015.
I am under no illusions of what I am embarking on here. This may amount to nothing more than a "vanity" publication. If I manage to stage several local book signings and sell a hundred copies in total, I'll be more than happy. What I am most interested in doing, to be completely honest, is in being able to hand copies of the book to my kids and grandkid(s), so that years after I'm long gone, they can crack the pages and get a good laugh from some of the things that amused me so.
I'm starting this thread largely as a "now you can't quit" reminder to myself.
Wish me luck!
Jeff
ps. I guarantee that some of you will probably see your (first) name in a story or two!
