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Offline hammerdrill376

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Re: I'm seriously thinking about.....
« Reply #15 on: January 24, 2010, 10:56:18 AM »
You know Mike, there are a ton of books out there to help women face personal and family issues but far too few for men. Society all to often brands men to be the stereotypical macho, football lovin, beer drinking, strong man who goes out kills the animal and brings it home to skin it, grill it and cook it so to speak. Truth is where our families are concerned we face allot of fears, especially where something like what you have gone through is concerned. But men in general don't know how to deal with it and feel emotionally like an island to them self.

The lessons, the "survival skills" and even the trust in a power higher than yourself were given to you for a reason greater than just your own personal needs. I have a feeling there are allot of men married with families or even single that need to hear and read what you have to say. It's hard to imagine on a deeper level but the pain, difficulties, trials and tragedies we suffer are either a gift full of lessons to strengthen us and teach others or something that will immobilize us and slowly destroy us from the inside out. Seems to me which one it becomes is ours for the choosing. You have chosen the gift. So just go for it. Let those lessons flow from your being into book form.  And as you know already you have allot of support out here.
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Re: I'm seriously thinking about.....
« Reply #16 on: January 24, 2010, 11:47:12 AM »
Hi Mike as a fellow author and as a father who struggles with so many things on a daily basis (especially lately) - having a resource like that would be priceless for so many men.   You're right -- a lot of the self help books out there are focused on relationships and women.  There is another 50% of the population that also face immense struggles and we often feel like we're supposed to know what to do, that we're the strong ones, that we can handle it - when the reality is that we're all just people.

As a fellow author -- my suggestion is to draft up the outline of the book and to float that outline to a few of the book publishers who publish that genre of books.   They'll have all the resources you will need to facilitate the process.   I'm currently putting the last few pages of the last chapter together for a book that will be published in early April.  Its a great sense of accomplishment. 

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Re: I'm seriously thinking about.....
« Reply #17 on: January 24, 2010, 12:02:06 PM »
Guys-

Thanks for all the support and positive comments. I mentioned this to my wife on Friday evening and her reaction kind of surprised me. She didn't get it and I'm not sure why. I explained my reasons for wanting to do it but she doesn't really understand.

I don't have any illusions of getting rich off of a book or showing up on Oprah's reading list. What I envision is helping just one man or family to get through something similar to what we have been through.
I know when my son was diagnosed I became an internet junky looking for information and support. I read many stroies from Mom's but not one, not even ONE, from a Dad's point of view. Papa Don and Hammer both touched on how I felt at the time. The man of the house failing my Family.

I have already started organinzing my thoughts for an outline. I'm obviously not an author and I think that will work to my advantage for a project like this...... because it will probably be a little unpolished so that regular Dad's will be able to relate.

My wife made the comment that you really don't have that much to put in a book. I quickly reminded her of some very simple little things that have happened over the years that were huge triumphs for our son or just brought us a simple laugh to break up a bad day. Things that many parents wouldn't even appreciate. I detected the slightest change in her attitude about the project.... for the better.
I will need her help at times to fill in details and dates so I'm hoping she'll get on board as I go along and she sees what it means to me. She knows better than anyone how the whole thing affected me personally and how it changed me. I think she s worried that remembering so many bad things will take it's toll on me again.

But the time is right for me to do this now. I have a lot of thoughts, stories and even advice to offer. I would never forgive myself if I didn't do this.

I may post occasionally about my progress but I will NOT beat up this Forum with continual stories of how it's proceeding.

Thanks again for the support guys..........
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Re: I'm seriously thinking about.....
« Reply #18 on: January 24, 2010, 12:19:16 PM »
I think it is a wonderful idea to write a book with the trials and tribulations and all the good things and thoughts and experiences you have had  in the upbringing  of  your  child  - - - -It will be an outlet for you to write this and it will help many, many people in the future     - - -My grandfather wrote a book about bringing up his four children without a mother(my grandmother was killed in a car accident)   and in turn my mother wrote a book also about bringing up her son (me) without a father (my father died of polio when I was four years old)  It was more of an outlet for them to get their thoughts on paper   as I am sure it will be for you - - - -All the best -Richard  - - -

 



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