As If I Knew
I'm lurching along with the manuscript editing, which is the relatively easy part, and really fumbling with how to simultaneously work on what comes next: finding reviewers and possibly a paid editor, deciding about book size, paper type, font and such; and beginning to decide about how to get this between covers. What I am secretly hoping is that one morning in a shaft of blinding light a giant hand will come down from heaven (you know the one--with the index finger benignly pointing my way in a beckoning fashion--and snatch up this black three-ring binder with the cover taped in three places and instantly hand me back the completed ouvre with a dazzling cover, published by Algonquin Press with glowing reviews. Then I wake up.
I don't know how much I'll put out in draft form. I do know this is lonely business and I've gotten used over the past three years to having company in my staggering passage through WriterSpace. I can't help but offer you a place in this reeling field trip that may someday become a book.
Since a few of you read the first installment (which I now know is not a foreword but more of a preface) I have converted the file format to pdf, and if you couldn't access the first part in Word format, I've changed it--as well as the first part of Chapter One uploaded just now--to Adobe pdf and you should be able to fetch it regardless of operating system.
Nothing Ordinary: Reflections from Nameless Creek--a book in gestation by Fred First
Comments
Fred,
The preface appears to be a dead link.
I like chapter 1 pretty well. I remain curious as to why WNC didn't work, though that may be because the "persistent currents" keep pulling me back there, even after all these decades away.
Good luck with the book.
Larry
Posted by: Larry Hunsucker | January 12, 2006 11:14 AM
i get 'not found' for this link:
http://fragmentsfromfloyd.com/fragments/NORNC/foreword_namelesscreek.pdf
Posted by: nancy | January 12, 2006 11:22 AM
I could definitely read more...keep going.
Displaced WV mountaineer.
Posted by: Sandra | January 12, 2006 12:19 PM
The Preface link did not work for me, but I read Chapter 1. I sent some comments directly to your email. Good luck with your endeavor.
Posted by: Jim | January 12, 2006 12:21 PM
Fred, as always you're a good read. We know all too well about the call of these SW Virginia mountains. By the way, Wanda's family came from Sylva and still have property there. I got the preface just fine and am thoroughly enjoying your book.
Posted by: Dave | January 12, 2006 2:57 PM
Enjoyed reading the beginnings of what seems like an interesting story.
Keep it up.
Posted by: Deb | January 12, 2006 7:52 PM
All I'm going ot say is you write well and I enjoyed what I read.
Posted by: cindy lee | January 12, 2006 10:48 PM
Wonderful words, Fred. You have such a flare for description.
Posted by: kenju | January 12, 2006 11:48 PM