Contemplating writing an "E" book.

iana · Guru

Contemplating writing an "E" book.

gollymolly · Senior Member

Go for it,a great challenge and worth the effort

Bruce and Bev · Guru

I haven't written a book, although keep thinking about doing one (Im an ex-cop of 15 years and have a lot of interesting stories to tell). My problem is I don't know how to start it (or am I just being lazy). I don't necessarily even want to get it printed - maybe I would do it for my own benefit as I still suffer a little from PTSD from being shot and a few other nasty things that people did to others - especially little children.

But I think you should just write it for the pleasure you will get out of it and hopefully show how strong these guys were back then and their life wasn't the easy street we have now - risk and death was taken for granted then

03_Troopy · Guru

Bruce and Bev wrote:
I haven't written a book, although keep thinking about doing one (Im an ex-cop of 15 years and have a lot of interesting stories to tell). My problem is I don't know how to start it (or am I just being lazy). I don't necessarily even want to get it printed - maybe I would do it for my own benefit as I still suffer a little from PTSD from being shot and a few other nasty things that people did to others - especially little children.

But I think you should just write it for the pleasure you will get out of it and hopefully show how strong these guys were back then and their life wasn't the easy street we have now - risk and death was taken for granted then

And you should take your own advice Bruce. Especially in these days of computers. Just start writing and if you want to add something you may have forgotten about, it's easy to just insert whatever you want in the right place. Like you said, you may not want to publish it, but you may have family that would find it very interesting to read at a later date.

Dunmowin · Guru

iana, why does it have to be an eBook. Why not just write and see what happens. I write up a monthly blog, and also freelance write for a major caravanning magazine. The comments I receive from the recipients of my blog all say I should write a book. At the moment, I am way to busy travelling and writing, but one day, when I settle down (again), at least I have all my blogs to write from. Just go for it

By the way, one of my fellow writers has recently written a book for Kindle on travel photography. I don't know what is involved in publishing through this media.

iana · Guru

Apparently an E book is very easy to publish just send the electronic copy in the correct format to Amazon and if the book sells you reap the royalty. What I have read so far about this is that its much easier to write a biography than it is to write fiction. That is providing you have kept diaries, have records, blogs, police records (Bruce & Bev), that you can refer to. People and families exist, situations are real etc.
But with fiction one has to invent the characters, their families and lives. All the situations have to be invented, or modified from memory. I see much work in this.
My wife says I should write a biography, but I kept no records, have forgotten the names and so can't do it.
It was mainly an idea that would keep me occupied during our proposed journeys, and maybe provide a little income as well.
The idea is fading, as, apart from all the work involved, I've hit a stumbling block with the theme, in as much I have no experience with liquid cooled aero engines, and that was what we used mainly during the early part of the war.