About the Book

 What do you want to know about the book? Well. Do you want to know the why or the what Okay,  why  I'm  writing  the book. Well, to be honest, I did not want to write the book but, my mother has been on me for the better part of twenty years to write my book. I  don't  know  why  she  had  the  idea  that  I  should  write  my  book.  She  thought  I  should write my book about my life. I could not figure out why she thought I should write a book, especially about my own life. Her rationale was that my life was interesting.

About the Book: I'm no Author

Now, if  you're  going  to  write  about  your  own  life  for  crying  out  loud,  you  at  least  need  to  be  somebody  famous, right? I mean that's what I thought. She stayed home for a long time to write my book and I fought it for a  long time. I tried to write it several times but, then I find myself wadding it up and throwing it in the garbage. But, you know, I spent most of my life writing poems and songs. Two or three verses, of course, and a bridge - I can do  that easily. I could do that before this episode over. But, when it gets past three or four versus I get lost.

Talking About the Book With My Counselor

Aside from my mom, talking to me about it, I had a counselor at the VA that I'm talking to and I was complaining to her about my mom, trying to get me to write this book. Yeah, she was probably  the  wrong  person  to  complain  to  because apparently, she thought I need to write the book. And the way she said it, I really took that kind of seriously,  So anyway, I decided that I would try to write a book based on more of what my counselor told me to my mom, just  telling me to write the book and so I went in and started trying to write not knowing how I want to write it. I've been  trying to figure out how to write it.

Deciding on a Genre

 I considered writing it as an  autobiography.  That's going to take so much for research. Did you know you have to  research your own life? Yes. that's a lot of work, you know. Then, I looked at maybe doing it as a, what do they call it?  you know, it's not really nonfiction, not fiction, but based on actual events. But anyway, I was looking at different things about how to write a book. How do you decide what type of book it should be? You know, this is not my wheel house. I don't know anything about writing books at all. That's what Lynn Sheldon said when I interviewed him. He said he did not like writing. He said he was terrible at writing and now he's got to think eight or nine. I don't remember how many books he's written.

What to put in the Book

The hard part I'm having is now trying to figure out what I want to put it in. But, what is difficult? Because obviously about my life. And you know, I know everybody has a life but you know, there are some things that  I just don't want people to know because you know, I tell them that means I had to talk about it off and I like talking about a lot of I justassumed to be happy-go-lucky tell jokes you know have a good time. Make you laugh I'm good.  Who cares  what happened?

That's the way I looked at it off but what my counsel got onto me my VA counselor. When she got onto me it was because Apparently a lot of this stuff that he had heard me talking about but you should listen to me obviously. But a lot of the things that I talked about he actually said that would help a lot of people. Okay, now she's got my attention.

And there's my mom telling me my life was interesting. Didn't get my pension. Of the what for the Y. I guess the why is because people ask me to write my book and this counselor just happened to say my book my s...