Anyway, a while back, she asked a question of me that I didn't know how to answer. She told me that she enjoys reading from time to time, and that she wonders if I would ever consider turning my musings into a book. I laughed at the time, but it's come up again. Not that I would seriously consider this at this point in my life (I now have a job, I have nearly three hundred posts and some are LONG, and I don't like where the story would end right now) but it got me thinking. I started this blog as a sort of online journal and I love going back and reading old posts. It's going to sound weird, but I don't always remember writing every post. A good number of them I do, but some of them I sit there and wonder… "Did I really write that?" Sometimes it's a good thing, sometimes not so much! :-)
Anyway, I started hunting around on Google and I found a few cool sites that let you turn your blog into a book. It's expensive, but it just turns the blog into print form. Not a big deal. I'm actually thinking about doing this at the end of the year. I started blogging in January, and I think it might be nice to have all the blog postings from the year in a nice bound book. I think it pulls all the comments too. And one of the sites lets you edit it. So I can do some minor editing if I want and make it look pretty. And take out the random posts that I do when I can't think of anything to write.
So I think I'm going to start working on this. Like I said, it's a huge project. But I'm taking some time off at the end of the year, so it might be the perfect time to sit back, watch a movie with my laptop, and slowly start to do my editing. Happy New Year present to me!
This got me thinking though. So I made an adoption book for myself. And I keep adding to it. I'm still working on a major update. But now I'm wondering if it might be nice to have that printed and bound too. So rather than just a binder with pages in it, I'd have everything in a nicely bound book. It's something to think about. The hard part would be where to break it off. I have over two hundred pages worth of emails and they keep coming every week. I think I'd just do it for a year. Like "Jenn and SinginInTheRain Emails Year 1 2010-2011". And then maybe next year or something I could do another book if it's still a lot of emails. We'll see.
It's just something I've been thinking about. But it did occur to me that I'm going to have a mini-library if I really go for it. I could see one book (big book) with the first year of my blog posts. Another book with my adoption background information and NeverTooLate's emails. And a third with the first year of my emails with SinginInTheRain. And oh, btw, these all cost nearly $100. I don't really have all that money saved up right now, but maybe I could start a fund aka "Jenn would really like cash for her birthday and Christmas!". I don't know, I'll figure something out!
Like I said, I'm thinking about it. We'll see!
I think it would be a great idea - something forever. I don't remember some of my posts or why I wrote them and what triggered the post - that's the fun of going back. It's also good to see what your thoughts were then compared to now.
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