Editing Isn’t Enough to Satisfy Me

I’ve been doing  a lot of editing for clients recently,  but very little writing from scratch and no extreme makeovers, so I’m getting a little bored.

The editing has been minor, so it doesn’t stretch me much. I’m looking forward to finding something I can really sink my teeth into…

I’ve finished editing the second edition of The Enduring Legacy of DeForest Kelley: Actor, Healer Friend, but I won’t be able to tell if I got all the chapters on the right pages until the cover is ready to upload to KDP. KDP won’t let me proof the galley until the cover is uploaded, too, so I’m waiting on that…

I’ll start on the editing for the second through fourth volumes of  Kelley Phone Tag in the next few weeks; I’m pretty well finished with editing Volume One.

I’d like to have Enduring Legacy and Volume I of Kelley Phone Tag ready in time for  the Forks Convention in June, so I can take a few copies of those along, too.

I’ve ordered 40 copies of DeForest Kelley Up Close and Personal to take to Forks, and I’ll have some of the audio book of that title there, too.  One of my pickle ball pals, Teresa Barnes, bought a soft cover copy from me today. She’s a real Trekker. Her boat is christened TREKKER. Here’s a photo of it:

 

 

So, there is a lot of editing in my future. I just wish there was some more “writing from scratch” on my plate… I’m getting antsy.

Maybe it’s time to write another book. Maybe fiction this time, if I still have the bandwidth for that. I’ve been writing nonfiction for so many decades that I’m woefully out of practice. Not that I think it will be hard to get back into it because it’s so much fun to write.

I always shake my head when people talk about how hard it is to write. They talk about getting writer’s block, and about all kinds of stuff that  I’ve never experienced as a writer. There’s a quote about writers that has to do with opening veins and bleeding out.

Red Smith: “Writing is easy. You just open a vein and bleed.”

In 1946, sportswriter Paul Gallico wrote, “It is only when you open your veins and bleed onto the page a little that you establish contact with your reader.”

Oh, there have been brief times when I’ve had to “go there” and express how I was feeling during various trials, and I’ve cried writing about them, and when reading excerpts about those times, but they’re few and far between.

To hear other writers tell it, it’s all that hard. I just don’t get it. If it was that hard for me,  I probably wouldn’t have stuck with it all these years. I enjoy writing. I love it. It’s a form of meditation for me…

I don’t write stuff that is going to make readers bleed much. My goal is to have them experience happier emotions.

There’s enough bleeding that takes place in our lives every day. I like to offer relief from that–especially these days!