writing priorities
My blog is one way I think outloud. It helps me process.
I had a conversation with another publisher yesterday. One comment was really helpful. He recommended coming up with a five-year plan and prioritizing which book projects are most important to me.
I'm absolutely thrilled by the interest in my latest manuscript. It's humbling and exciting. I can't wait to see it in print in bookstores. But here's the challenge I'm facing. I want seven books in print yesterday! Part of that is my personality. I really want to turn Soulprint and The Physics of Faith and The Game of Life into books. But the book we're shopping now is part one of a trilogy. It'll take a year for it to hit the market and then we'll need to space each book. So we're probably looking at three years!
I really want to write for a broad audience. I think every author wants to impact as many people as they possibly can. But I also have two niche passions: twenty-somethings and pastors. I'd like to write a book for twenty-somethings. I already have a rough draft. And I've got invitations from a couple publishers to write a book for pastors. I really want to write those two books in the next two years. But I don't know how that fits with the trilogy.
Anywho.
I'm trying to put the jigsaw pieces of this writing puzzle together. I haven't quite figured out how they fit together yet :)
I had a conversation with another publisher yesterday. One comment was really helpful. He recommended coming up with a five-year plan and prioritizing which book projects are most important to me.
I'm absolutely thrilled by the interest in my latest manuscript. It's humbling and exciting. I can't wait to see it in print in bookstores. But here's the challenge I'm facing. I want seven books in print yesterday! Part of that is my personality. I really want to turn Soulprint and The Physics of Faith and The Game of Life into books. But the book we're shopping now is part one of a trilogy. It'll take a year for it to hit the market and then we'll need to space each book. So we're probably looking at three years!
I really want to write for a broad audience. I think every author wants to impact as many people as they possibly can. But I also have two niche passions: twenty-somethings and pastors. I'd like to write a book for twenty-somethings. I already have a rough draft. And I've got invitations from a couple publishers to write a book for pastors. I really want to write those two books in the next two years. But I don't know how that fits with the trilogy.
Anywho.
I'm trying to put the jigsaw pieces of this writing puzzle together. I haven't quite figured out how they fit together yet :)
4 Comments:
Hi Paster Mark
I read your first book while in DC...It was the last thing I did before going to sleep. My intent was to read one chapter each night, but found myself reading two or three, and sometimes falling asleep with the light on and wake up with the book still open.
I LOVED IT!
I am sure anything you write will be read by the twenty-somethings to the ninety somethings, and will be profitable to/for all. I am still in the seventy-somethings and will read anything you write, no matter what it is about or who it is intended for, or where it fits. Be encouraged......
thanks! glad you enjoyed ID :)
Dude, I just want to survive another Sunday. I can't imagine writing books and all. Keep it up the good work.
Funny :) Surviving Sunday. I know that feeling all too well :)
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