Friday, October 19, 2007

I need to complain about this writer & book balony.



Seems odd that my "book" is blank? I seem to have it, the subject of my book, come up a lot? (notice that I am using a ? rather than a ! or a . after this last sentence) "My Book"........................... In some ways the events over the years seem to "shout out: Write it down". Today I read the first few pages of a book "about writing a book", not that I haven't done that a few times,read some book about this stuff, but this lady was well on her way to telling me the secret to getting my book done. She started out telling about her "tough day, that day", the day she wrote those pages. She said that she had taken the kids here and there and and bought groceries, stopped off to do her radio interview of authors show, (that last one was really true and probably could have more to do with her book that the simple formula by the way) and of course she had throughout the day made phone calls. The hubby was on the way home and they were off to some wonderful place for dinner and she just decided to write this all down so that the "revelation" could be made clear that indeed since she wrote down all that had happened that indeed the secret is clear as can be on how to find time to write. Apparently the secret is that you have to have a day so full of stuff to do that it would be a miracle to find 30 minutes and then when you do just force yourself to take 30 minutes and write even if it about the day then.............. Bingo, your a writer. I can clearly see where I have failed. I have had too much time on my hands...............................She did mention something about picking a subject. On the other hand her subject was "picking a subject" and so again she lost a little credibility with me. On the other hand I was reading about her subject in a bound book so looks like this lady wins round two, assuming I was keeping track. I on the other hand have not written a book about the thought patterns that go through my head about picking a subject because the "subject" that I would pick would probably lead to long term unemployment instead of "just the time being", hopefully. The "time being", is indeed an unknown to all right now but then I have not published anything that says in black and white that "working for the man" is a dead end and we ought to all be assigned jobs based on our brains and then we ought to just wear hats that have the words, "let it be", also known in some circles as "Amen" on our hats. This would simply the real issues. Folks would know that they are where they are because they were to stupid to do any better. Folks would not have to work hard and do their best or get lucky with who their relatives were because they would take a test and "bingo" they would be assigned to pounding widgets eternally.

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Some would design the widgets and others would sell them for a markup and others would demand payment based on the the morally right position found in being paid for the widget pounder's work, not theirs necessarily, but in the final analysis widget pounding would have no bearing on getting one into heaven.

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I think the "heaven pass" would be based on complaints. Someone up there would keep track of the complaints and both the smart and not so smart would have a pretty good chance of making it to that.................... Non Widget place in the sky.

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So I can't write the book, yet. The subject would be considered a Complaint.

1 comment:

Kathy said...

I guess I'd better be careful what kind of books I leave laying around. Great post!