Why I’m writing this book

One of these days I’m going to write a book.. One of these days I ‘m going to write a book about my life. How many times have you said those words and how many books have you written so far?

When I was a young lad we used to play a game called hide and seek. I can remember I would stand in a corner with my eyes closed and my friends would run away and hide. After a few minutes I would yell out in a big loud voice “coming ready or not”

Then I would go looking for my friends. Later in life I was reading a book called “Do it Now”where the author encouraged me to do it now whether I was ready or not. Up until now I have been making excuses why I could not write a book. I’m not ready, it will take too long, how will I market it, who will want to buy it. These were all negative excuses procrastination and yet I still found time to write letters to newspapers about all the unimportant things that got up my nose.

One day I wrote a letter to the Editor of a newspaper and in it I quoted a world famous poem called “Don’t Quit” The Editor wrote in his newspaper REB Unsuitable. I was angry that he had rejected a such a positive piece of literature.

This caused me to look back though my files of letters and I found that I had written over 250 articles on various subjects in the last few years. If I put all those articles together I would have a very big book and yet not one newspaper had ever paid me a cent to write them.

I reasoned that if I’m going to write articles for nothing then why don’t I write a book online and when it’s finished I will have something to sell.

My next decision was what to write about? I wanted to write about a person so I chose a person I know better than anyone else in the world and that is myself. They say that life is not a destination it’s a journey. It has a beginning and an end. We know what our journey of life has been so far but we do not know when it will end. Before my end arrives I’ve decided to write about my journey so far by writing a little bit each day whether I’m ready or not.

I will be writing my life’s journey in chapters and publishing them on this website. I can assure you that my journey through life will reveal to you some interesting experiences I’ve had. The good the bad and the ugly its all there behind me now and I do hope you will join me as I relive my journey.

Visit the section in the left hand menu called ‘Topics’ and Click the “This is my Journey” link to read all the chapters in my book.