I’m dedicating this week to being creative. I’ve written two low-content books and a low-content journal. Lisa Twining (busy as she is at all times) has undertaken to create covers for them and to make them ready for uploading to KDP. She’s working at near warp speed. (“When you need something done, ask a busy person!” – Carolyn Kelley) When the covers are ready, I’ll display them here.
I’d like to have the books available for purchase in early May, perhaps sooner. But we’ll see how that goes. I’m doing these mini projects between helping my writing clients reach their goals, so my time is not exclusively my own. Plus, I had to take Patches to the vet this morning for her annual bloodwork. Tomorrow I have a finger poke to check my warfarin level, and Friday I drive to Seattle to have the temporary crown on my front tooth placed. So, as you can see, I’m multi-tasking in several different directions in order to produce these little gems!
INTRODUCING MY/OUR NEWEST LITERARY CREATIONS
The first one I tackled was Memoir Writing 101. It’s a low-content guide book (perhaps 4000 words) with lots of lined space for its users to outline any memoir they’ve been thinking about writing.
The second one is Autobiography Writing 101. It has fewer than 3000 words. Although writing an autobiography is harder (IMO) than writing a memoir, there are fewer steps to writing one, so this one is shorter (word count wise) than the one above. It, too, is a brief guide.
The third one — and the one I’ve had the most fun with — is De Perfect Journal for DeForest Kelley Fans. Its subtitle (presently) is DE-LIGHTFUL QUOTES, DE-FINING GOALS, and DE-LICIOUS MEMORIES. It has in the neighborhood of thirty quotes from De (and a few from Carolyn), writing prompts, and here and there a few suggestions for action steps based in the journalist’s answers (whatever they turn out to be). It also has at least 10 images scattered throughout of De, De and Carolyn, and De and Carolyn and me. That’s because I want the owners to feel a sense of communion. That’s what people felt when they were with De — an almost immediate sense of feeling intimately and deeply seen and loved.
I’m using the same image on the De Perfect Journal (but much smaller) that is on DeForest Kelley Up Close and Personal but without the writing that appears across his t-shirt. That’s because I have been given the rights to this image.
Every so often my creativity DEMANDS expression. This is one of those weeks. So, creative I am being!
