It all started as a joke, someone saw me writing
and ask if I was writing a book, and the funny thing is that he was being
serious. I had never pictured myself writing an entire book, but after that
moment the idea started to linger in my head. I had just recently gone back to
my writing, I was bored to death and I
had to sit 8 hours a day in front of a computer with little to do so I figure I
could give it a shot. For years I had been hoarding these plots on my mind, so
why not try to do something with them.
Very unlike everything I do, I didn’t put much
thought in it, I didn’t plan ahead, I just started to put in paper what was
coming out of my head, really just letting it flow. I started it on the 9th of
September and 22 days later it was done. I never thought it could be so
addictive but all I could think about, day and night, was that book and all
that I wanted to put in it. It was all very clear in my head, it was just a
matter of typing it and hoping it would make sense.
While I was writing the book, another friend
told me I should publish it, which was something that would have never crossed
my mind and that I had mixed feelings about, so I decided not to think about it
until it was done. Oddly enough, once I finished, I was quite pleased with the
final result and felt almost… proud for what I had done (which is very
unusual). I was glad I had done it but I was yet to figure out that the biggest
challenge wasn’t putting one of my stories on paper but to actually share them
with other people. Therefore, I put my little project in a drawer, where it
stayed for a few months… Luckily the few
people that knew that I had wrote the book didn’t let me forget about it. They
kept pushing me, asking me about it, trying to allure me to let them read it.
There were moments I would convince myself to
do it, but then I would change my mind, I needed a bigger reason, something
that wouldn’t allow me to get cold feet, and that’s when the idea of making
this a part of the Operation: Let's Build a House came up. I have been trying to
raise money for this family in Mozambique and I figured I could use this book
to try to get some contributions too. This decision forced me to publish it,
because now not doing it, didn’t just mean I was losing an opportunity for
myself, it meant that I might be wasting a chance to help someone that needed
it. I also decided to translate the book to Portuguese in order to be able to
reach more public and hopefully get more help to the family from Mozambique.
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