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Writing

NRaleighLiberal

(60,014 posts) Mon Dec 12, 2011, 08:40 PM Dec 2011

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I am working on my first book...... [View all]

No formal contract - verbal offer to submit the proposal to Rodale. Going to be non-fiction, on the world wide, all volunteer tomato breeding project I've co led for the past 5 years.

I've got about 20K words down already, but am finding it tough in terms of discipline....

So I may have lots of questions for anyone here who has been through this, or is going through it. Glad to have found this group!

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I am working on my first book...... [View all] NRaleighLiberal Dec 2011 OP

The real secret? Pab Sungenis Dec 2011 #1

Thanks for the advice..... NRaleighLiberal Dec 2011 #2

Create a time and space to write in your routine and stick with it. Chan790 Dec 2011 #3

thanks so much. We actually listened to it on CD. Loved it. NRaleighLiberal Dec 2011 #4

Ballpark minimum is 50K words. The trick is to keep a steno pad by the bed with a good pen. HopeHoops Dec 2011 #5

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