{"id":2266,"date":"2020-07-01T23:19:47","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T06:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shescribe.com\/?p=2266"},"modified":"2020-07-01T23:19:50","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T06:19:50","slug":"i-think-i-want-to-get-back-to-writing-my-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shirscribe.com\/index.php\/2020\/07\/01\/i-think-i-want-to-get-back-to-writing-my-book\/","title":{"rendered":"I Think I Want to Get Back to Writing My Book"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I\u2019m writing a book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Actually, I\u2019m writing two books: one fiction, one non-fiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fiction one I actually got the idea for when I was 16. I started writing it when I was 20. I was a senior in college, listening to Kirk Franklin in my dorm room, writing longhand even though I had access to a computer.  I think I was around 29 or 30 when I last added anything to it. Then that computer crashed, and I\u2019ve been trying to figure out how to get the data off of it. I did the research to show me how, and maybe 7 or 8 years ago I tried with no success. But I don\u2019t think I followed the directions correctly, so I\u2019m going to try again. I\u2019m really interested in reading what I wrote. I still know the story. I could still probably write it, but I don\u2019t know. I hope that I can get it out of me one of these days\u2026one day sooner than later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The nonfiction book I started writing about four years ago. Funny I don\u2019t recall where I was when I started writing it like I could with my fiction draft. Maybe that\u2019s because from the beginning I typed this one. I guess you can call  it a memoir. It\u2019s definitely the type of book I like to read \u2013 true stories told in literary language. I still have access to this draft, but I haven\u2019t touched it in about two years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then today I was reading this article in the New York Times<\/a> about Black women in publishing, and it just got me thinking that the publishing world needs this Black woman\u2019s voice in the mix.\u00a0 I think Black writers\u2019 voices are so diverse, but it seems to me that the books that get published are not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don\u2019t be too quick to listen to what I have to say about books, however. I\u2019m more of a TV watcher than an avid reader, I like non-fiction better than I like fiction, and I can\u2019t remember most of the books I\u2019ve read because the majority of them came from the library, and they are so few and far between.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think one of the biggest differences in the books I\u2019m writing is that they don\u2019t focus so much on race, all though they definitely don\u2019t ignore it. A lot of the stuff I\u2019ve read by Black people is either all about race or not at all. I tend to focus more on the human experience and weave in how race plays a role.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, I think I want to get back to writing books\u2026and I\u2019ll do that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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