Working on a Book
6/27/07
Many people have written books and many people are writing books. To write a good book takes a great amount of directed thought and painstaking research. If a writer is lucky enough or successful enough he or she can afford to higher a researcher and editor . When a writer can’t afford a staff like most writers can’t afford one, then dedication, commitment and inspiration and all technical and business aspects are left up to the individual writer. A writer can only hope he has enough energy and stamina to complete the book, and enough belief in his or her work to get their work published. .
The first step to writing a book is to come up with an idea. The second step is to decide if you have enough interesting information to write about, then the third step is to sit down infront of a blank piece of paper or computer screen and actually write the book. The last step is the most difficult. I have written several books of fiction, but I put down my pen twenty five years ago out of frustration. Twenty five years ago was prior to user friendly computers or emails, and a fax machine cost as much as a computer costs today. All writing was done on paper with pen, pencil, or manual or electric typewriters with carbon paper copies. (This is how c.c became famous at the bottom of business letters. A carbon copy was always sent to someone.) Only businesses could afford a Xerox machine then. Everyone makes photocopies now, but c.c has still kept it’s place in a business letter.
I have been working on a book for a year. I will not announce it’s title yet, because I think the title is a really good one and I don’t want anyone lifting it. I will say that the book is about my four and a half years on radio as a radical talk show host. It involves many of my interviews and discussions with national and internationally known authors, activists, politicians, artists and musicians. I have used my own archives of thousands of news articles I have read on my programs, and over two hundred and twenty recorded interviews. It is an odd trip back through time and into the future, with people and events that have been at the forefront of national and world changing events.
The book is a historical record of one of the most volitile periods in American and world history. It discusses the most important issues facing the world during 2003 from the beginning of the Iraq war to the present, based on the experiences of a radical radio talk show host. It discusses left and right wing politics, the early and later periods of the Iraqis invasion, the 2004 and 2006 national elections. It gives a unique perspective of the massive sea change of the American Society from G.W’s 75 percent approval rating to his most recent approval rating of 24 %. The book is as honest, fast moving , informative, and designed for a sequel.
I believe the information in the book is worthy of many readers. Ralph Waldo Emerson once stated in his famous essay “The Oversoul” “Oh, Believe that every word that was meant for thine ear to hear will come to thee…”. I believe that I just hope a lot of people are meant to hear, what this book has to say.
L.A. STEEL
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