The Year I Write My Book
Jan. 2nd, 2008 09:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
qosI realized this morning as I drove to work that I have a second resolution: I'm writing a book this year.
My oldest consistent dream (since I was five years old or so) has been to write and publish a book. When I was young I assumed it would be a novel, but as I've gotten older I've realized that I could write non-fiction as well.
For the past month or two I've been thinking about writing an article about Ereshkigal and her role in The Descent. This morning I acknowledged that my Masters degree work on Inanna has given me the background to write a book about the two goddesses together and their joint -- but differently expressed -- mysteries of death, sex, sovereignty, and transformation. I intend the book to be grounded in sound academic research, but be personal and spiritual enough to have relevance to the lives of those who resonate with these themes and figures.
Contributing to my sense of momentum: I've already had an established, respected Pagan author volunteer to make introductions for me to one or more publishers while we're at Pantheacon.
This is it.
This is the year.
My oldest consistent dream (since I was five years old or so) has been to write and publish a book. When I was young I assumed it would be a novel, but as I've gotten older I've realized that I could write non-fiction as well.
For the past month or two I've been thinking about writing an article about Ereshkigal and her role in The Descent. This morning I acknowledged that my Masters degree work on Inanna has given me the background to write a book about the two goddesses together and their joint -- but differently expressed -- mysteries of death, sex, sovereignty, and transformation. I intend the book to be grounded in sound academic research, but be personal and spiritual enough to have relevance to the lives of those who resonate with these themes and figures.
Contributing to my sense of momentum: I've already had an established, respected Pagan author volunteer to make introductions for me to one or more publishers while we're at Pantheacon.
This is it.
This is the year.
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Date: 2008-01-03 06:22 am (UTC)You'll sign it, right?
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Date: 2008-01-03 06:32 am (UTC)That's my other dream!
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Date: 2008-01-03 07:17 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-01-03 12:14 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-01-03 02:33 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-01-03 03:30 pm (UTC)How exciting!!!
(Have I said recently, YOU ROCK.)
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Date: 2008-01-03 07:08 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-01-03 09:17 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-01-04 01:02 pm (UTC)