L'aura del Campo

What books will I write?"

"We are all come to Writing.com as writers, what books will you write?" a prompt at: "30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS" 

I've written chapbooks of poems but I'd like to write a book.

5. Work like hell to promote the finished product.
4. Publish: choose between self-publishing or finding a publisher who likes it.
3. Arrange poems by theme or style. Is this one book (with or without sections) or better as two or three books/chapbooks?
2. Take 50 poems and have friends help me decide which ones are best for a book.
1. Write 200 poems to have 50 good ones.

You see... the first step is writing. Still a book doesn't exist until it has a cover.

I'm better at starting new endeavors (even decent at planning them). It's the execution that's my weakness. Getting across the goal line without tripping first (or even stumbling)? Priceless.

I would like to finish my "Blood of the Garlic" stories. The paper copies are in Montana. I'm not. So... edit those that are on-line? Put as much on WdC when I get back to Montana? It won't get done otherwise.

In the end I could always pull an Emily (as in Emily dickinson): edit to my personal satisfaction, choose what I put in notebooks, let my heirs publish. It means I could spend the rest of my life focused on writing and re-writing and not worry about publication.*sigh*

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