“You want to write a book, okay. But what’s your concern?” I inquired.
“I want to write a book, but the thought scares me. I’ve never written anything longer than college and university papers, and I think trying to write anything more than 20 pages is beyond my ability.”
We discussed his interests, background, and vocation. When he told me he was a newspaper reporter, I asked him how long he’d been a journalist.
“Oh, about seven years.”
“How many reports have you written?”
“Oh, 2 or 3 a week; I don’t know, maybe over 800.”
“Okay, here’s an idea. As a journalist, you have to keep your word count down, but you know there’s more to each story. Why don’t you select 75-100 of those reports, rewrite each one, and fill out the story with some of the details you had to cut. That way, you don’t have to think about the daunting challenge of writing an entire book – just a series of very short stories. Putting them together will get you your book. What do you think about that?”
He was elated! He’s been working on it now for about seven months, and we’ll edit it, format it, and get it published several months from now.
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