I made a call to a local radio station a few months back inquiring about some opportunities for new authors to discuss their work and I learned about Word on the Hills. It is a show by Felicity Sidnell Redi and Gwynn Scheltema focussing on writers and books in my neck of the woods. It’s a clever tittle as this hilly area is called Northumberland and writers write words.
I booked today months ago and we periodically chatted via email preparing for the show. Life is funny. I can’t believe that I blinked and today at one o’clock I will conduct my interview. I’m a little nervous and a hell of a lot excited and its just like the entry I wrote a few days ago, the best way to your dreams is to get at the work as much or as little as possible.
Yesterday, knowing I was being interviewed today, I stopped by a local book store, Let’s Talk About Books, and I set up a meet the author night for Wednesday, October 9th. That date seems so far away, in this beautiful warm heat of July, but it will be here before I can blink too.
That’s how things get done. You say yes to one thing and it leads you to another. You do something here, and you notice that you should also be doing something over there.
Everything is connected. Every single little thing is connected by invisible string to another thing and when you pull on one great thing, you bring another one closer to yourself.
I will post the interview when it airs.
I am very excited to have a conversation about something that I do every single day with nobody watching. Totally hidden and isolated. Writing is a lonely and pesky task. Much easier once I discovered thanks to Seth Godin that there is no writer’s block. You simply choose to do something or not to do something. How well you do that something, should not be the motivating force to do it in the first place.
I’m not thinking of doing a little mini book tour. I am going to contact the local library next and call any other surrounding bookstores. I am not sure where all of this is leading me, but as Robert Frost so beautifully put it – I took the less travelled road and it is making all the difference.
I made a call to a local radio station a few months back inquiring about some opportunities for new authors to discuss their work and I learned about Word on the Hills. It is a show by Felicity Sidnell Redi and Gwynn Scheltema focussing on writers and books in my neck of the woods. It’s a clever tittle as this hilly area is called Northumberland and writers write words.
I booked today months ago and we periodically chatted via email preparing for the show. Life is funny. I can’t believe that I blinked and today at one o’clock I will conduct my interview. I’m a little nervous and a hell of a lot excited and its just like the entry I wrote a few days ago, the best way to your dreams is to get at the work as much or as little as possible.
Yesterday, knowing I was being interviewed today, I stopped by a local book store, Let’s Talk About Books, and I set up a meet the author night for Wednesday, October 9th. That date seems so far away, in this beautiful warm heat of July, but it will be here before I can blink too.
That’s how things get done. You say yes to one thing and it leads you to another. You do something here, and you notice that you should also be doing something over there.
Everything is connected. Every single little thing is connected by invisible string to another thing and when you pull on one great thing, you bring another one closer to yourself.
I will post the interview when it airs.
I am very excited to have a conversation about something that I do every single day with nobody watching. Totally hidden and isolated. Writing is a lonely and pesky task. Much easier once I discovered thanks to Seth Godin that there is no writer’s block. You simply choose to do something or not to do something. How well you do that something, should not be the motivating force to do it in the first place.
I’m not thinking of doing a little mini book tour. I am going to contact the local library next and call any other surrounding bookstores. I am not sure where all of this is leading me, but as Robert Frost so beautifully put it – I took the less travelled road and it is making all the difference.
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