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OMFG I had to get Tori Spelling off the front page! I couldn’t look at her or her funny boobs and necklace anymore. I’m so sorry I put you all through that for so long.
I am almost finished with my book!
I have also learned a whole lot about writing a book:
You might be able to put links in ebooks but they don’t work so well in a regular book, you have to actually explain the reference or leave it out.
My house has never been so clean as it has been while writing this book.
While writing a book, especially for first time authors who don’t have an agent, don’t start trying to figure that part out until after you have written the last page. I went into panic mode last week when I Googled editors and agents. A big thank you to JD from I Do Things and Marie at Nourish for explaining a lot about the process and what is really needed when it comes to editing.
Evidently it is helpful to play a lot of solitaire while writing.
Keep a notebook or use your voice recording option on your phone for ideas when you can’t get to your computer, sometimes you won’t remember that great idea five minutes later.
The best ideas come to me when I am no where near my computer.
I miss blogging, a lot.
Tori Spelling is no excuse for ignoring your blog.
Writing is hard.
My house is really clean.
Congrats and good luck!
Tori Spelling is no excuse for ANYTHING. Get that straight.
Gotcha!
This is the first time I have just heard of “Tori Spelling” – I read your first paragraph about five times and I thought it was the way the Conservative Party Spells.
I had to Google “Tori Spelling” and apparently now I’ll have to go to your home-page now to find out she is and why she pisses you off…
Congratulations on completing your book – Good Luck !
Good for you!!!
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Congratulations and way to go!
Thank you for holding down the fort while I finish this project. I’ve decided there will by hyperlinks in my acknowledgment page.
Now when you have us over for the book-signing party, you won’t have to be embarrassed about the house. We’ll be able to eat off the floors, David Hasselhoff style.
Eww and that made me laugh. I haven’t eaten off the floor David Hasselhoff style, though there is something to his carefree, devil may care attitude that is almost appealing, or at least cringe worthy.
Congratulations! I am going to venture down the book writing road. Jayne Martin told me I’d never write a book if my starting goal was to be published. I have a lot of writing to do for myself.
Congrats again, and I will put positive energy out in the world for you.
My goal was not to be published but I will be. Writing it has been cathartic and much more cost effective than therapy. I’ve released a lot of ghosts writing this book. I have felt incredible especially now that I have pushed my way through most of the hard parts. I recommend it highly.
Congratulations! I’d like to reserve my signed copy now, please 🙂 And thank you for getting rid of Tori Spelling!
You’re welcome. I won’t do another Tori Spelling for at least another year.
Thanks for this post. I’m playing a lot of Solitaire myself. I get so frustrated with the process…I think I’ve written gold one day and the next it looks just sad. Congratualtions!!
Yes, me too, gold one day and coal the next. My solitaire score is pretty good, tho.
Congrats on the book! I can’t wait to read it. Writing is hard and anyone who tells you any differently is lying (or doesn’t do it). I am jealous that your house is so clean.
It won’t last for too long, the clean house that is. You all will be the first to know when I find out about publishing. If I haven’t found someone to publish in three months I’m going to self publish.
Wow! Good for you – on both counts! As Jaffer says I have no idea who Tori Spelling is. I’d better check it out too.
Don’t, if you don’t know who she is then by all means stay that way, you will thank me.
I was thinking about your situation with the editing and publishing and I thin you should just put it out there on FB. Start a PUBLISH MY DAMN BOOK, NOW page and we’ll all like it. If people can adopt babies on FB then surely someone as witty as yourself could get a book published.
Maybe I should write a book. Not that I have anything interesting to write about, I just need a good house cleaning:)
I can so relate to the “clean house” obsession. I’d find myself hand-picking cat hair off the floor. Anything to avoid the keyboard. I’m proud of you, my friend.
OMG I was doing that today!
Thank you for all your wonderful advice, I have taken heed of it, and the book is better for it. You rock. When it’s time to think about the movie you can write the script.
“The best ideas come to me when I am no where near my computer.”
Same thing happens to me.
I’m soooo exited you are almost FINISHED writing your book! As much as I have missed your blog posts – I am so proud of you for staying focused. You may have inspired me to do the same.
Sounds like you’re doing a great job. It’s always good to have another set of eyes look over your manuscript when you are done. Someone who knows something about writing, maybe an editor or friend who is a writer. Any input before then might be counterproductive unless you’ve hit a wall. But even then, you could put the book down for a day or two and see what percolates. As you said, many ideas happen when you are not writing. I used to think about scenes and characters while I was driving.
Oh! Don’t know if you’re still having a problem with the narrative. I suggested another idea to the person in my writer’s group who is writing a memoir – take a paragraph or two from a chapter, maybe memorize them, and just start talking about them to a friend or into a tape recorder or camera. It helped her find her voice. She also said it was therapeutic.