How to Write Your Book

By E. R. Mason

This free publication is intended to be an informal aid to writers who have been planning, but have not yet engaged their project. It is simply a compilation of suggestions submitted for consideration by each potential author. Choosing to use any of these suggestions is completely up to the individual. Please consider this booklet to be a casual discussion between writers. If you are already published the information within will already be known to you. If you’ve been meaning to start a work for a long time, this booklet may be helpful to you.

• Language: English
• Publisher: E. R. Mason
• Release date: Dec 3, 2021
• ISBN: 9781732869790

E. R. Mason

This is the place where many people write their profile in the third person so it sounds like someone else is writing about them. I'm just not comfortable with that. Instead, let's assume that you are the literary authority, (which you are) and I your applicant. Here are my qualifications; As far back as childhood, my passion for space travel, and flight was so strong it was nearly painful. In contrast, I grew up on a horse ranch in Connecticut. It was a rough and ready place. We participated in horse shows and rodeos. My friend Bill Larson rode with us. Somewhere around sixth grade, Bill discovered rock and roll, and dragged me into it, thereby ruining my life forever. We began developing bands around grade six, an addiction that remains strong to this day. Bill is presently lead guitarist for the rock band Road Work, based in Connecticut. http://theroadworkband.com/fr_intro.cfm Bill also introduced me to an even wider range of adventures such as swinging out over a cliff on a knotted rope, climbing Mt. Washington in the freezing rain, and sailing a small boat in the tail end of a hurricane. Two of those did not end well. We attended The Norwich Free Academy High School which is larger than many college campuses, and still reminds me of Hogwarts. There I became completely enamored with a gifted English teacher named Janice MacIntyre. She will always be a part of my inspiration. Somewhere along the way, I found the works of John D. MacDonald. He has remained my favorite author ever since. There I also began writing screen plays and fiction. I began my study of the martial arts at NFA and that continued for many, many years until I finally became a black belt student instructor at a Merritt Island, Florida Taekwondo Center under Masters Walter Simpson, Michael Raney, and half a dozen other gifted instructors. When I was nineteen, I finally got a chance to fly a Piper Cherokee, and have been flying ever since. Because SCUBA diving is much like an EVA, I also became a certified diver and have done quite a bit of salt water, fresh water, and cave diving. The currents of life, which we only think we control, eventually carried me to the Kennedy Space Center. I worked there as a Coordinator for twenty-five years, mostly on the Eastern Range side. I have innumerable rocket stories. I struggled to find the time to write The Empty Door and The Virtual Dead in that period. There I also met bassist-extraordinaire, Stormi ...

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Foreword

This free publication is intended to be an informal aid to writers who have been planning, but have not yet engaged their project. It is simply a compilation of suggestions submitted for consideration by each potential author. Choosing to use any of these suggestions is completely up to the individual. Please consider this booklet to be a casual discussion between writers. If you are already published the information within will already be known to you. If you’ve been meaning to start a work for a long time, this booklet may be helpful. I hope you give your inspiration a go.

At the time of this writing there were 7.7 billion people in the world. When you self publish your work it will be distributed all around the world. So, there can never be too many authors, including you.

Copyright 2021

E.R. Mason

All rights reserved

ISBN: 978-1-7328697-9-0

SET UP YOUR WORK STATION

Have you ever read or heard it said that you should find an out of the way place where you won’t be interrupted and you can have the privacy and quiet you need to concentrate on your writing?

Big mistake. (Just my opinion)

Here’s why that’s probably a mistake; If you set up in an out of the way room, you are going to come up with a thousand reasons not to visit there. Just about any thought that