I never realized until recently how sick writers really are. It's a disease that isn't controllable. Not only do I have one book that is being published and needs to be marketed, I have another at several publishers, waiting for one to pick it up. That's not enough though. The marketing plan on the first one is a challenge that is time consuming and requires a great deal of contact with other persons either by phone or online. Then I have Spokes, which I am writing, and if that isn't enough to keep me going, I went and fired up yet another book project with a person in Australia. This one is a joint project, like no other that I have ever written. We are doing it 'in the cloud', and it is proving to be quite challenging and fun. I think it will work out pretty well for the both of us. I can critique her work on the book and she can do the same to my work. Yes, we probably will occasionally fight but since she is on another continent, the violence level will only be vocal through my cell phone or written through emails. Of course, we chat through Google talk but since she is 17 hours ahead of me, that is a different challenge all in itself. No rest for the writer! Leave a comment below if you would like to provide some input, it's always welcome and I don't bite.
Until tomorrow,
Robert Detroit
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