Don’t Look Now…

But I think I am going to write a book, which ought to be possible to complete over the next few months.  On business.  From firsthand experience.

On the side.  Obviously it’s not going to save us from being dead broke in a few weeks.  It has other purposes.  At best, to be one of those additional income stream thingies.  At worst, to be cathartic and an achievment of the “look what I did” variety and a few people will buy it online, self-published.  Hey, maybe that’ll be what running CotC is good for.

I’ve watched people write books on blogs, blog marketing, blogging for business, and thought, in charitable moments, “I could do that at least as well as they could.” I’ve watched people write books that are patently absurd ideas that can’t possibly sell, yet get traditional publishers on board.

Without getting bogged down in story and plot, or doing something that’s been done, even if it should have been done by me, what’s the best thing I could do?  Write what I know; my actual experiences as a cautionary tale.  And I don’t mean the part about marrying someone you meet online.  Which would be another possible story, but there doesn’t seem to me to be that much to it.

I’ve been making notes and it’s bringing back a lot of memories.  I could actually end it at the end of 1999 if I wanted, since by comparison everything since is footnote, and we lasted this long because I was stubborn.  Without being able to thrive given my standing reaction to what happened through 1999.  It’s a great tale of what not to do starting and running a small business.

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