Today I put final touches on a book I am writing with my partner, Joe. It’s about professional marketing for accountants.
(The challenge of writing as co-authors is certainly worth a blog post at some point. Actually, it’s probably worth a whole book. I wonder what category it would fall into. Humor? Horror? Action & Adventure? We’ve been together for more than 35 years, so maybe the category should be History & Criticism? Whatever. . .!)
Anyway, I thought that today, in honor of having reached the half-way point of our summer writing challenge, I’d write in answer to the question,
“Why do you keep writing about Emergency Preparedness?”
- I do it because I can. I have access to a computer, to the internet, and time. I love words. Not everyone has these luxuries.
- I do it because I like feeling that I’m helping others. Nice people keep writing to thank me for helping . . . and, of course, that keeps me going!
- I do it because I made the commitment a long time ago to write at least a weekly Advisory (post) about a new topic associated with emergency preparedness. (My daughter tells me I am indiscriminately curious.) After well over 400 Advisories I’ve learned a whole lot about a whole lot of stuff!
- I like knowing I’m a “published author.” There’s still some cachet to that – in certain circles, at least!
- I see other people writing and that reminds me, “I can do that, too!”
Perhaps one day I’ll branch out into yet another field. In the meanwhile,
I have five books on Emergency Preparedness on Amazon.
The first 3 books were for people wanting to get more of their neighbors involved in being prepared. (These books got finished at the same time. The picture shows me on the day samples arrived!) The 4th book extended that to helping small businesses be ready for emergencies. The 5th book was the collection of meeting ideas for all those groups being formed . . . and happily, that’s the book that’s sold the most copies!
You can see all of them at my Author Page at Amazon. Here’s the link: amazon.com/author/virginiasnicols I hope to have at least two more emergency preparedness titles appearing there this year!
Have you written a book? Several? Why do YOU write? Interested readers would like to know! We are, after all, a special category.
Virginia
Your Emergency Plan Guide team
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Why do you write? Because you’re good at it. Signed up for your regular reminders. Good luck on the book you are writing with Joe.
That’s what I was hoping for, Doug! Please share to people you care about! One life at a time . ..!
My books cover medicine, engineering, water, religion, taxes, and politics. Just like my blog. (And, I’m old enough that a bunch of them are out of print!)
Hm. I agree with you about out of print. (I have just one in that category.) Heck, maybe some of the topics you list may themselves be out of date!
I’m a writer too, on Amazon.
I write because I must be some kind of narcissist who thinks that people might be interested in the characters I create and the worlds I put them into. Besides these people are driving me nuts rambling around in my brain and they insist on being let out.
When they are already in your brain, that means you are a REAL writer!