WHAT I’M WORKING ON NOW

# THE BOOK

18 months before Pullman sales date, I panicked. How am I going to make it accessible to thousands of people? I know thousands. I’ve lived in four states and 12 cities. I’ve worked for two universities and huge retail stores. I worked in a factory, city, and county government offices. I was active in several churches and was a youth counselor. I have beaucoup relatives. I wanted to reach all of them. Hashtags!

The thought crystalized in my mind and so I wrote. I wrote for two months and completed a 73,000 word manuscript. I had an index of more than 3,000 hash tags. It was so boring, even I didn’t want to read it. Even though I didn’t write anything derogatory about anyone, would these people want the world to know where they were at certain times of their lives? Would I?

So I edited, then I rewrote. Then I saw something different. I began another rewrite. I was not having any fun. I prefer creating to renovating. I used to sew and mostly refused to do alterations. Fortunately, my mother offered to rip and repair and liked doing it. I have no one to make alterations in my writing.

BUT, every time I stopped completely, an inner voice insisted that I continue, then one day I wrote something and saw - IT’S NOT ALWAYS ABOUT ME! So, I’m working diligently to complete a new unnamed masterpiece that I still refer to as # The Book.