I've started working on my book, Tales of a Seeker, with Calla and LauRose, two friends of mine who also write. Once a week, we spend an hour or so working separately on our projects, then come together and read bits to each other for comment. Besides copy-editing and bringing a fresh, if befuddled, ear to their words, I'm not sure how I'm helping them.
But I do know what they are contributing to my project, and it's to recognize what's good in it and to demand my very best.
I've imagined the book as an anthology of my various spiritual writings, with a little introduction to put my travels in order and some interstitial bits to add context. My friends, however, want to see where my travels have brought me. What has stayed with me and how has it affected my life. Are there any themes running through the various pieces. What hangs together and what sticks out.
Questions like that.
If those are the questions that come to them on hearing some of my pieces, then similar questions will probably come to at least some other readers. In which case, I should make a stab at answering them.
So I've printed out the current version of the manuscript so I can spread out the pages and make notes in the margins, and see what comes of it.
Stay tuned.
Friday, April 1, 2016
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