Victory!
The first draft of my first E-Book is done! Now I know where some of the negative feelings were coming from. As I told my mom in an IM conversation earlier this evening “I think part of it is fear, the other part is fear, and the rest of it is probably fear.”
It’s not bad, this E-Book. Though I need to put it away and gain my distance before cutting and editing, I did print it out and flip through it. I’m proud of it. Is it okay to say that? I’ll say it anyway. I spent eight days writing this thing that now has physical form in my hands, and I am proud of my work.
I’ve always finished writing I did for work. My fiction has never had great endings or were finished because I hit the wall and didn’t know how to work past it. Of course, the final book I reviewed was “Writing from Both Sides of the Brain,” and her chapter on the wall hit just where I needed it to, lol.
I am sleeping tonight on a positive note. I CAN write on demand. I can keep it consistent. I can write on assignment as well. I’m not “just” an essayist (and there’s nothing wrong with being one). I had to remind myself of all those things and did so when the printer burped out the last page of my E-Book tonight.
You wrote an e-book in EIGHT DAYS? How many words?
KJ
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It’s titled “Where Do I Begin? A Review of Eight Essental Books for Beginning Writers.” 28 pages, 4895 words, so not as bad as it sounds, but it’s my first and I had a learning curve, lol. About 2.5 pages, 1.5 spaced for each book. My second ebook (on journaling) stands at about 25 pages after 5 days, but it’s been stewing in my mind for a very long time and my notes are good.
B J Keltz