SUNDAY 9-24-23 The Book Report

This date may never happen again.

You guys know I try to write every day.

I try to write in this blog daily, but my stuff is more stream-of-consciousness than planned out. And sometimes, I feel I can do better with the discipline of having a few departments to fill, than starting over each day.

That way it looks like the back mailman’s view of an apartment mailbox. There are small squares with items in them. Different items usually, but refilled with a different item when emptied.

So Sunday will have a book report- not like the ones you had to do in school, but more a report on my books and how they are progressing.

Today’s inaugural book report is about “The Ten-Minute Book.”

I am trying to make it available by time for Christmas shopping. Thanks for asking!

I hate editing & proofreading!

I would not be so bold as to speak for all writers and authors, but I’m gonna stick my neck out, and say none of us like editing.

But I am in that process with my latest book- trying to finish my first draft.

Devices and programs can help. I do use Grammarly and Google Docs and I try to listen to their advice along with my own corrections, unless I disagree with them substantially. I am the one always correcting your grammar and pointing out that apostrophes are not needed in the plural forms of most words. I have been known to slap people who split infinites.

I’m not even that crazy about writing, either.

I type with one hand ( although lefty is starting to come back some ) and it’s very slow at times. Of course, it’s not as slow as handwriting. I love it when a piece of writing is finished, and the imposter syndrome in me tells me it’s not very good, I keep on keeping on.

Therefore, I am anxious to share with you my newest work. My address is don@donmartinbooks.com I will happily trade you a pdf copy of it in return for your reading it and telling me what you think about it, for me to put on my website.

I need to say here that it won’t be ready to send to you until mid-October

Also, I must ask of you to comment on anything here. I would, of course, love it if you would share it with your friends.

Thanks for reading!