On writing a book: Writing a book is a weird and highly individual thing. People still argue about how to go about it. Here is what a book is, in one man’s opinion:
1) Writing a book is, or might be, what happened when you stumbled in drunk and decided you had a really good idea and started writing at 3:23am without really knowing where you were going, and what you were going to do either. This book, that you started at precisely 3:23am is different to the book that would have eventually transpired had you been to a different pub and drunk a different alcohol with different friends and started writing at 3:25am. That’s not to say that alcohol is essential when writing a book – although some authors would prove you wrong there – but that a book is, quite simply, the result of what happened when you sat down and let your brain unspool at a series of very precise times. This is why your book is a one-off: something that can never be repeated, even by you, even if you try. Great, eh?
2) Writing a book is great, until you say to hell with it one day, don’t back your work up, and decide to leave it on your Desktop, then return to it the following day – better if you are sober – and turn your computer on, only to be greeted by the BSOD (blue screen of death). This means that all that hard work you did – all of it, without exception, if this is a particularly grim day – is, in fact, not so much lost, as cruelly LOCKED inside your computer saying “ha! I dare you to try and retrieve me!” And it can be retrieved, of course…If you are willing to spend some money doing so searching for it support london… 3) Writing a book, despite being one of the most frustrating things you might ever fail or achieve to do – aside from failing or achieving to open a very, very stubborn jar of jam – is a great thing. If you decide to do it, just make sure you do BACK UP.