Every Day I Write The Book
Last week during lunch with my friend Heather I was complaining–as I always complain– that I never have time to think about this book I am trying to write.
“Maybe I should stop writing my blog,” I said flippantly.
“I think you should stop writing your blog,” she said, not at all flippantly.
I am going to stop writing this blog. I can’t write this blog and write a book. And for a while I could be the sort of writer who writes a blog and also tries to write a book but I can’t be her anymore. Now I need to be the sort of writer who writes a book. I have every intention of opening up shop here again in the near-ish future, although I don’t honestly know what sort of shop it will be. I hope you will stay tuned.
I don’t know how to begin to thank all of you for coming here to read what I have to say. Thank you. Thank you for giving up on any hope that I would post on a regular basis, thank you for reading long posts when I had too much to say and for looking at pictures of flowers when I had nothing to say at all. Thank you.
I know who some of you are, and I am grateful to you for letting me know you through your comments. The vast majority of you are strangers to me. Thank you for knowing me through my words.
I think this is the part where I am supposed to tell you to friend me on Facebook or follow me on Twitter if you want to keep up with my coming and goings, but I’m not on Facebook or Twitter. What I can tell you is that I will post here whenever I have big news to share. And now I am going to get all Secrety on you and tell you that someday I will finish a book and I will sell it, and then I will travel across the country and read from that book and when I do, will you please come and introduce yourself so I can give you a hug and you can show me pictures of your kids?
Until then, I send my love.
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*photo by Reboo
Good luck! I’ll surely stay tuned and I can’t wait to read your book!
You rock. I feel really, really lucky that I am someone who knows you “in real.” You give me hope that I can be the kind of writer who writes a book too. Good luck and let me know how I can help.
I’ve really enjoyed your blog, so I hope you come back. Good luck with the book, and I hope to read it some day soon!
I will miss this very much, but I am excited for you that you will be (trying) to find the time to do your other life’s work. You deserve that! I eagerly await what you come out with. Lucky us!
Oh man!! Congratulations, so bittersweet. You put into words what I often think. I was just thinking of how to express myself and my thanks after reading the piece about your church and the piece on skating with the girls. What a legacy you build for them each time you write about them. Your words are a gift, to us, and to Grace and June. So thank you. I will miss you! And when you come out to California, look forward to meeting you!
I will miss you dearly. But I am beyond excited by your someday book. I’ll spend the next several years trying to chose the perfect picture of my kid(s) to bring to you when I meet you.
Erin – you will be so dearly missed and so eagerly anticipated . . . the very best of luck to you!!
Well, I will certainly miss reading your writing but it is wonderful that you will have more time to work on your book. See you around!!!
Tosh and I both concur that your writing is worthy of publication in some of the biggies – like the back page of the NY Times magazine. We love your blog, but the next step must be taken. Writer is part of who you are and so is Mother. If the writer part needs to focus in another direction so be it. We have full confidence that you will craft a book every bit as well as you have crafted this blog. We too will miss the postings but we will survive in anticipation of the book. Our very best to you dear one.
I will miss reading this Erin, but I look forward to holding your book in my hands and also to visiting sometime and having you visit. Would love to talk over email about life and writing. I’ve come to rely on the blog as the way I stay connected to you and your beautiful writing and the life you are leading. We’ll have to find other ways of doing that.
At least we still get to read you at The Hen house. Good luck. I can’t wait for the book.
I know this struggle well. Good luck to you and I hope we can keep in touch.
I’ll miss reading you here, but I’ll wait for your book. Thank you for your comment on Mother Words today. Zoe is fine. I’m shaken, but fine, too.
Write, my friend. Write.
I’ll miss your insight and beautiful writing but I wish you the best of luck on your book and I hope you are able to create it now in just the way you wish to. Let us know when it is finished as you already have one presale to me!
Best wishes to you and your family.
Damn :*-(
Now I have to go to work that much earlier in the morning….
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I have been gone for quite some time, and have to admit my heart sunk when I realized all I’d missed. Some part of me always believes people’s lives are left on pause, like my DVR, when I’m away.
I wanted to thank you again, for the monitor you sent me so many months ago. Unfortunately, my journey to motherhood has required much more than I am capable of on my own. I still hold onto that monitor though, until my partner and I finally get what we’ve been desiring for such a long time. Then I’ll turn it over to the next lesbian in need, giving her the best of my wishes with it.
I’m back in my own skin as it were, at Speak V. I will check back regularly, waiting for the return of your wonderfully inspiring words (and the title of your Best Seller, of course).
Somehow I missed this post and thought, hmmm haven’t seen a new post in a while so I came to check in.
I hope you are making good progress on your book and I can’t wait to read it!!!
I got in too late! But now I have little treasures to unfold at my leisure. May your talented, creative energy support and sustain you!