In Real Life - 2002
I was scared to do it, but I have a shelf where I store the books that I’m going to read next, and somehow, one of my own...
...In Real Life was there.
It was the first book I wrote as a married man, and that was monumental because I was deathly afraid that having a wife and kids and dogs and work was going to stop me.
It was around then when I came up with the new formula.
One chapter at a time...
...think about it all week...
...write it on Saturday.
It worked.
As I picked up the book, I contemplated reading it again.
Was scared.
I’ve grown as a writer.
Was ‘In Real Life’ trash?
Well, it isn’t!
I have definitely learned some tricks since 2002, but ‘In Real Life’...
...is good!
I don’t have to shy away!
Yet, it’s funny.
There are sentences I don’t remember writing at all, but there are also sentences that I actually recall crafting.
It’s a book about a man who’s imagined life is better than what is actually happening to him.
Fiction and reality meet somewhere in the middle.
If you haven’t read it in awhile...
...do it!
I give it two thumbs up!
Weird Henry was a character who’s name I lifted from a Mellencamp song. I recall that he had just one scene. My editor insisted that I expand his role. I was so disillusioned by that request...
...she was right!
Damn editors!
They usually are.
...In Real Life was there.
It was the first book I wrote as a married man, and that was monumental because I was deathly afraid that having a wife and kids and dogs and work was going to stop me.
It was around then when I came up with the new formula.
One chapter at a time...
...think about it all week...
...write it on Saturday.
It worked.
As I picked up the book, I contemplated reading it again.
Was scared.
I’ve grown as a writer.
Was ‘In Real Life’ trash?
Well, it isn’t!
I have definitely learned some tricks since 2002, but ‘In Real Life’...
...is good!
I don’t have to shy away!
Yet, it’s funny.
There are sentences I don’t remember writing at all, but there are also sentences that I actually recall crafting.
It’s a book about a man who’s imagined life is better than what is actually happening to him.
Fiction and reality meet somewhere in the middle.
If you haven’t read it in awhile...
...do it!
I give it two thumbs up!
Weird Henry was a character who’s name I lifted from a Mellencamp song. I recall that he had just one scene. My editor insisted that I expand his role. I was so disillusioned by that request...
...she was right!
Damn editors!
They usually are.
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