Memoirs & Other Tall Tales, Peggy Cole
Coming soon to Amazon on eBook and in Paperback
It's been a long, hot summer and my muse has been mostly on vacation until this week. My recent desire to work on my latest book is a welcome change to previous neglect. I find that posting about my progress (or lack of it) makes me work harder either out of guilt or shame. Who knows?
I've passed the halfway point of putting together this collection of stories, some old, some new, some familiar to those who know me from other writing sites. I hope that these stories have been improved by all the time I've spent editing stuff that's already written. That has to be the worst part of writing a book, but a necessary part.
Years of gathering information from family members, friends, even adversaries, indicates that everybody has a story to tell. The hard part is making the effort to write it down. And then, properly changing the names of the guilty (fictional characters) before publishing.
So I'm off to my battered keyboard which bears signs of my abuse. My ballpein-hammer style of typing is a gift learned during the old manual typewriter days of my youth.
This prototype cover, designed and created by Michael Friedman, is printed out and tacked to the wall in clear view of my laptop in hopes it will inspire or guilt me into working on my story. Over and out for this post and back to work.
Happy writing to all aspiring and actual writers. All hands on deck, fellow authors!
Thursday's word count: 38,047 at 207 pages 8/25/2022
Saturday's word count: 42,056 at 225 pages 8/27/2022
Tuesday's word count: 48,020 at 240 pages 8/30/2022
Friday's word count: 50,957 9/8/2022
