Grey Mess

I Don't Know What My Book is About

"What is your book about?"

I am positively terrified of this question. As a matter of fact, this exact question is why I commonly keep my writing to myself...because I don't know how to answer it.

Of course, I know what my book is about but I simply cannot distill it into a few sentences. Every time I've tried to rehearse an answer, it comes out as "It's...there's a guy...a few guys...well so there are three guys and so much swearing and they have problems," and that's really it.

I wrote the whole story, all 100K+ words of it, and I cannot sum it up into a short description.

So...that's what I'm working on today. I'm going to sit down with my book and come up with a short description and/or die trying.