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pantryslutI have a confession to make.
I'm being attacked by a book proposal, and I feel ambivalent about it.
I outlined the basic chapter progression, very roughly, last night during an idle moment in my copy editing class. It looks good. I think it could work. I'd still need to refine the concept a little bit, get it into focus a little more, but it could work.
I think I could have fun writing it. I think it's a book that needs to be written, and I'm as qualified as anyone else to do so. I think it might sell -- not super blockbuster-o-rama, but respectably in some circles.
It would eat my life.
I am staring into the maw, folks. Do I want to get swallowed whole, or do I want to walk away?
I'll go answer a question now while we all ponder this dilemma. (If you want to know what the book might be about, drop me a line or something; I'll happily talk about it, but maybe not anymore in public here until I make a decision. 'K?)
I'm being attacked by a book proposal, and I feel ambivalent about it.
I outlined the basic chapter progression, very roughly, last night during an idle moment in my copy editing class. It looks good. I think it could work. I'd still need to refine the concept a little bit, get it into focus a little more, but it could work.
I think I could have fun writing it. I think it's a book that needs to be written, and I'm as qualified as anyone else to do so. I think it might sell -- not super blockbuster-o-rama, but respectably in some circles.
It would eat my life.
I am staring into the maw, folks. Do I want to get swallowed whole, or do I want to walk away?
I'll go answer a question now while we all ponder this dilemma. (If you want to know what the book might be about, drop me a line or something; I'll happily talk about it, but maybe not anymore in public here until I make a decision. 'K?)
