What’s Reality Got To Do With it?

Katherine and I just had one of our friendship book (FB) project meetings.  

We’ve fallen in the habit of meeting right after our weekly book club meeting.  A small group of us have been reading The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, by Stephen Covey.  The book is an oldie but goody.  We’d read a chapter a week and get together to discuss the concepts within the chapter and how it applies to our daily activities and our relationships. 

It’s after these meetings that Katherine and I meet to go over the progress of our FB project. 

We’re having a lot of fun with both meetings.  Some nights, these meetings aren’t as productive as they could be, but they are always highly effective in boosting our morale and keeping us connected with each other.

Tonight’s FB meeting was a productive one.  We updated the blog and added a couple of features to it; we created a list with the next lucky winners (a/k/a/ possible publishers) to receive our manuscript; we reviewed the couple of leads we were given; we went over the responses we received from our various writing groups regarding whether we should go the traditional publishing route or the self-publishing route. There is lots of advice and debate spewing forth from that one question. 

The basic question:  Are the two mutually exclusive? 

The reason that particular question comes up is that we want Katherine to be able to offer workshops and presentation on the material in the book, but it’s hard to do that when the “book” doesn’t exist yet.   It’s a bit of a Catch-22 for us.

Plus, it’s easier to send Ellen DeGeneres a copy of our book, if there’s a book to send her…

Oh!  Ellen!  No, she hasn’t contacted us, yet — but that doesn’t faze us.   She’s just really busy.

Yeah, why live in the real world, when it’s so much more fun to live in the reality that we’ve created for ourselves?


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