Book Postmortem Day 2

My project start date was pushed back again, so now I'm at home and unsure of what to do. Maybe it's time to get back to my roots and start blogging and bring this thing back to it's glory days. 

When was that?

78 posts in 2007 makes it my most prolific year. The greatest moment of this blog was probably early 2007 when Juice set the blog as his browser homepage.

I want to wait a week and get some feedback before taking a second look at my book. My only goal was to finish it. I figured if I completed a first draft and got the feeling it was worth reading, things would work themselves out. I suppose that working out is slowly beginning with the feedback I'll get from you.

What to do if I get some decent feedback and get motivated to try to polish and publish it, but it doesn't work out.

The thought of real lawyering makes me laugh. I can't tell whether I'd be good at it. I've hardly tried it. I remembered this story from a few years ago, i'll rewrite it now:

...


I got on the elevator going down and my co-worker Rick hustled on after me.

I noticed his suit and asked, “Court?”

“Yeah, traffic court for a friend. You?”

“Family law.”

He laughed. “Oh man, is it ugly?”

I thought about the case and shook my head. “They’re fighting over $10,000 in assets, and our client has already spent over $6,000 in legal fees.”

Rick laughed. “Classic.”

“I mean, if you’re fighting over $10,000, and a lawyer tells you he needs a $2,000 retainer just to get started... It’s truly ridiculous.”

As we approached the ground floor, the man standing behind us said, “Yeah, I know it sounds crazy, but I got divorced last year, and I’ll tell you what, I’d rather give all my money to the lawyer than let my ex-wife have a single penny of it.”