March 14, 2006

• Topic: Repitition

  
  

  What is repitition?  My next book idea.  For starters.  What’s it about, what am i thinking about.  I’m thinking about the idea I once heard that everything important to be said has been said.  The problem is, things have these words have not been effective in creating change, therefore, they must be repeated but said in a different way. 

  
  

  If you’re banging your head against a wall, over and over, there’s only one thing to do.  Stop.  Yet sometimes, we need to repeat even the most fruitless tasks.  We need to keep knocking on doors, picking up phones, and writing.  There is no telling how much time and effort will be requried for someone to answer, but, if the desire is still there, than the call for repitition continues.

  
  

  I am a self-published author.  I have distributed about 150 books.  It is likely that more than 200 people have read at least part of my book.  It’s a good start.  It’s a start.

  
  

  I am daunted by the idea of writing a book the traditional way.  Finding a professional editor, agent, and publisher.  That process is daunting, and the odds are extremely low.  The traditional way of book publishing requires a certain form of writing to be accepted by the gatekeepers of the publishing industry.  In order to succeed one must be able to write in the limited ways of the industry, and have an understanding of the keys to the publishers gates.

  
  

  For my next book, I will not do this, just as I did not for my first.  I won’t because it will take tremendous effort to write in the accepted style.  A part of me still feels like an F student, a bad writer, unable to meet the formal criteria that good writing calls for.  But, I now know that writing is about meeting the criteria of your readers, and that I know I am capable of doing.

  
  

  I know I can self-publish a book anytime I want, and I know what it takes.  I know that without a traditional publisher, my book will not be sold in stores, but that it can still be sold.  I know that with the right advertising, I can sell 150,000 books, just as I sold 150.  The question is, how can this be done?

  
  

  Repitition. Do it again, but do it better this time. 

  
  

  I am not quite sure what I want to write about this time.  When I think about writing, I think about people like myself.  I think about the things that people are told and not told on a daily basis.  The things we don’t think about, but we would be better off, I think, if we did.

  
  

  I guess the book I aim to write is a bit of a self-help book. It’s also a book that attempts to explain the way things are, so it’s a bit of a sociology book.  It’s a book that will touch on culture, the media, and politics.  It will be a book that will give advice for parents, so it will be a bit of a parenting book.  It will also talk about high school and college aged students and life after school, so it will be a bit of a career book, and an education book.  It will incorporate my experiences thinking about and writing this book, which will hopefully involve me travelling, so it will likely also be a travel book.  It’ll also be a book about writing itself, and self-publishing.

  
  

  3-5 years.

  
  

  Thousands of books. 

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