Like you and every third person on earth, I want to write a book
I want to write a book. I want to write several books. I have started half a dozen books. One of them, the novel I wrote for NaNoWriMo last November, might even be halfway there. I’m hoping to work on it again this November.
But the rest of the year I lack motivation. So many projects just languishing on the giant hard drive of my G4.
I found a little motivation today while reading Jill Koenig’s post about writing a book at her goalblog. Click on the post titled “So You Want to Write a Book?” in the sidebar. Jill doesn’t seem to have permalinks working on her site.
While I’m proofreading warning labels today, I think I’ll listen to the podcast with book coach Diane Eble. Click on Jill’s link in her post if you want to listen. I can’t get it to translate to my post. Something with Blogger, I suspect.
Anyway, with my newfound career potentially in the crapper because a giant company bought our little company and downsizing looms ominously on the horizon, I’m going to make the time to work on my books. Unpacking, laundry, garden and make-up nookie with my mate be damned.
Kidding, honey.
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"In summer we live out of doors, and have only impulses and feelings, which are all for action, and must wait commonly for the stillness and longer nights of autumn and winter before any thought will subside; we are sensible that behind the rustling leaves, and the stacks of grain, and the bare clusters of the grape, there is the field of a wholly new life, which no man has lived; that even this earth was made for more mysterious and nobler inhabitants than men and women. In the hues of October sunsets, we see the portals to other mansions than those which we occupy."
~Henry David Thoreau
September 15th, 2006 at 9:54 am
Well, Kelly, if you’re unemployed by October 17th, you can jump onto Andy Wibbels’ “Shut Up and Write” day…
Either that, or you can participate while at your job - and become unemployed soon thereafter!!
September 15th, 2006 at 11:05 am
Hi Kelly,
Thank you for the mention, the podcasts will be available as a download shortly.
I can’t wait to see how your books take shape.
Live Your Dreams,
Jill
http://www.GoalBlog.com
September 15th, 2006 at 12:11 pm
Ooooh. A booook. I see there’s LOTS going on here, egads. Keep typing, baby. Keep typing.
September 15th, 2006 at 9:41 pm
. . . well, if you don’t get to keep your new job with the cubicle and the lights and the recycled air, maybe you’ll get severance!!!!!!!!!!!! Wouldn’t that be great??? But even better, I hope that you at least get to work there 6 months so that if severance doesn’t come thru, there’s unemployment! (that’s me, doing the pollyanna so you don’t have to!)
September 16th, 2006 at 9:49 am
WHAT?
jeez louise. talk about bait and switch.
when it comes time to try and sell the book, i have a blog to recommend to you.
September 18th, 2006 at 12:49 am
It can, in fact, be done in 15 minute increments throughout the day. Not ideal, but better than ZERO.