Odds and Ends
When three God things come together for me at about the same time, I pay close attention.
You may recall I mentioned a few weeks back that I was starting a new book. Imagine my surprise then when, a few short days later, a totally different book project fell into place for me. I came up with a good working title for a book on a topic I've long wanted to write on. The title is Marriage Is Not a Civil Right and Other Modern Misconceptions. The theme idea for the book is: What kind of world does our next generation of children need to grow up in in order to have emotionally healthy and happy lives? My concern is that the children's needs have been hidden in this "me-first" recent thought-world.
Before long I got on a roll and came up with over a dozen ideas that would make good chapters for a book on that topic. Then it occurred to me that I probably have in my master files enough supportive material to fill out most of what I will need to make up a completed outline for the book. And the third God thing is, I just discovered last week that I have a slot already paid for in my favorite online Christian Manuscript Submission service (by mistake from an earlier submission). Is that a hint, or what?
All I need now to complete a proposal ready for the marketplace is some large unbroken chunks of time to write up and polish the outline and a couple of sample chapters and to write up the cover material for a prospective publisher. At the same time, it's been nearly a year since I launched this blog. So some free time at this point would also give me a chance to tweak my focus and evaluate with some wisdom-enhancing distance whether it is doing the job I intended. I could use some help from you out there in this last direction. If you have any suggestions or comments, please let me know.
With both of these projects in mind, I've decided to take a few weeks off from my blog-writing ministry. I will update you, my dear readers, on Tuesdays each week to let you know how things are going. I'm thinking you might enjoy watching a book go through the whole development process--from initial idea up to market-ready.
Your highly excited can't-wait-to-get-started writing friend,
Margaret
P.S. In response to my recent request, one of my faithful readers suggested this devotion book as one she finds spiritually edifying: From Faith to Faith--a Daily Guide to Victory by Kenneth and Gloria Copeland.
You may recall I mentioned a few weeks back that I was starting a new book. Imagine my surprise then when, a few short days later, a totally different book project fell into place for me. I came up with a good working title for a book on a topic I've long wanted to write on. The title is Marriage Is Not a Civil Right and Other Modern Misconceptions. The theme idea for the book is: What kind of world does our next generation of children need to grow up in in order to have emotionally healthy and happy lives? My concern is that the children's needs have been hidden in this "me-first" recent thought-world.
Before long I got on a roll and came up with over a dozen ideas that would make good chapters for a book on that topic. Then it occurred to me that I probably have in my master files enough supportive material to fill out most of what I will need to make up a completed outline for the book. And the third God thing is, I just discovered last week that I have a slot already paid for in my favorite online Christian Manuscript Submission service (by mistake from an earlier submission). Is that a hint, or what?
All I need now to complete a proposal ready for the marketplace is some large unbroken chunks of time to write up and polish the outline and a couple of sample chapters and to write up the cover material for a prospective publisher. At the same time, it's been nearly a year since I launched this blog. So some free time at this point would also give me a chance to tweak my focus and evaluate with some wisdom-enhancing distance whether it is doing the job I intended. I could use some help from you out there in this last direction. If you have any suggestions or comments, please let me know.
With both of these projects in mind, I've decided to take a few weeks off from my blog-writing ministry. I will update you, my dear readers, on Tuesdays each week to let you know how things are going. I'm thinking you might enjoy watching a book go through the whole development process--from initial idea up to market-ready.
Your highly excited can't-wait-to-get-started writing friend,
Margaret
P.S. In response to my recent request, one of my faithful readers suggested this devotion book as one she finds spiritually edifying: From Faith to Faith--a Daily Guide to Victory by Kenneth and Gloria Copeland.
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