If Only
... I could find the time! Damn!
Okay, so I have this GREAT idea for a book. I've had it in my hat of ideas for a long time A sorta coffee table book. Nice pictures. Short stories (1000 - 2000 words)-- around one theme. AND I even found a small independent publisher that would be perfect. I mean, it is more a coffee table book than the writing. And I just know it is good. It is one of those food-for-thought sorta books.
Why am I upset?
I have two working projects right now and to add another? Well, that means something else has to slip and I (insert whine here) don't wanna! See me: crying spouts of tears fountaning from my eyes.
What is a mommy/writer/worker to do?
All right. The book can be in proposal form since it isn't exactly fiction (really, these short stories are based on real *overhead* conversations (insert evil grin/laugh here). And maybe I can do a mock-up of a page layout. And yes, I can write a hook/query. I don't think the book needs to be finished. Maybe it does (off to investigate the publisher guidelines). Nope. I can submit without it complete. But I do need to complete at least three of the short stories (really- it will illustrate the book really, really well).
Sigh. Too little time.
Ready for my pep talk? Chant with me folks. Chant with me:
I can do this. I can do this. I can do this.
(Looking skyward) Just give me an extra four hours tonight, k?
Ha! There will be some poor mom out there with a sickly kiddo in her arms wondering why the night is dragging on an extra four hours when all she wants is daylight and the morning hours so she can get some help. All right. She deserves morning more than I need a few hours... I'll have to manage to get this together on borrowed time.
Okay, so I have this GREAT idea for a book. I've had it in my hat of ideas for a long time A sorta coffee table book. Nice pictures. Short stories (1000 - 2000 words)-- around one theme. AND I even found a small independent publisher that would be perfect. I mean, it is more a coffee table book than the writing. And I just know it is good. It is one of those food-for-thought sorta books.
Why am I upset?
I have two working projects right now and to add another? Well, that means something else has to slip and I (insert whine here) don't wanna! See me: crying spouts of tears fountaning from my eyes.
What is a mommy/writer/worker to do?
All right. The book can be in proposal form since it isn't exactly fiction (really, these short stories are based on real *overhead* conversations (insert evil grin/laugh here). And maybe I can do a mock-up of a page layout. And yes, I can write a hook/query. I don't think the book needs to be finished. Maybe it does (off to investigate the publisher guidelines). Nope. I can submit without it complete. But I do need to complete at least three of the short stories (really- it will illustrate the book really, really well).
Sigh. Too little time.
Ready for my pep talk? Chant with me folks. Chant with me:
I can do this. I can do this. I can do this.
(Looking skyward) Just give me an extra four hours tonight, k?
Ha! There will be some poor mom out there with a sickly kiddo in her arms wondering why the night is dragging on an extra four hours when all she wants is daylight and the morning hours so she can get some help. All right. She deserves morning more than I need a few hours... I'll have to manage to get this together on borrowed time.
