writing process
Feedback for “Continuing Action: Completing the Warrior’s Journey.”
Just before Thanksgiving I sent copies of the book I've been working on, Continuing Action: Completing the Warrior's Journey, to a few people for some "test reads." I'd gotten the manuscript to the point where I needed some fresh eyes to tell me if it made any sense. I kept the number of readers small but spread them out across several key demographics. While my target audience is centered on veterans and their families, I needed to get feedback from classical scholars, leaders of non-profits, mental-health professionals, and active-duty military personnel as well. This is because Continuing Action addresses shortcomings in the way modern [...]
Title Time
Of all the aspects of writing a book, selecting a title is the one I least enjoy. The pressure to try and encapsulate everything the book is, exclude everything it isn't, and make the title memorable with some little twist or play on words is exhausting. And annoying. But that doesn't mean I can get out of doing it. Even if I don't self-publish this second book, I need to select a working title to use while shopping it around to agents and publishers. Nobody will consider a proposal titled "Book 2", as it is currently labeled on my computer. [...]
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