I was going to write a book but don't know if I'll have time

[Gimlis Ghost]

If you write your book using your PC back up every chapter on disc or print it out as hard copy, as you go.
I had just started a screenplay when a lightning storm burnt out my PC of the time. Luckily I had not gotten far into it so actual work lost was trinial, but I never got back to that project.

[Marc St Louis]

Several people have suggested I write a book.  Even my wife has encouraged me to do so.  Not interested

[Hawkdancer]

Many good ides have not been put down, and are now forgotten - at least as many more shouldn't have been!   But to quote Tom Paxton, "Are you going away with nonword of farewell, will there be not a trace left behind".  At least post here so your thoughts can be seen.
Hawkdancer
PS: my book is still in ye olde thought process !

[Deerhunter21]

i hope your doing ok sleek! im interested in seeing your thoughts and what you write! (whether in post or in book form)

[Hamish]

"Several people have suggested I write a book.  Even my wife has encouraged me to do so.  Not interested"

Marc, I can understand not wanting to write a book, you have to feel motivated to do it justice.  You have written plenty of articles for PA, and made huge contributions with your bowmaking and heat treating.  I would buy a copy of a book containing your distilled knowledge, if you did decide to publish one day.
I'm sure glad the guys around a 100 years ago wrote the books they did. They give us a perspective of the times, designs, methods and materials involved with making bows. You especially have  built on what those older guys taught us, so you wouldn't be wasting your time if you changed your mind. Imagine some young fella, a hundred years from now picking up a book written by you. Your work and name would live on in the minds of burgeoning bowyers.

[RyanY]

Sounds like it’s time for a traditional bowyers bible volume 5. 

[bradsmith2010]

just do a little at a time, it will get done,, 

[WhistlingBadger]

Sounds like it’s time for a traditional bowyers bible volume 5. 

 

[Hawkdancer]

I'll throw up another for volume 5!
Hawkdancer

[sleek]

Id be happy to have another volume as well. We could use it to correct the errors in the first 4, and add further knowledge discovered since then. My focus on my notes has been the short bow, specific to the recurve. If I can prove my theories at the salt flats this year, and if I'm asked, maybe I could do a chapter on the hows and whys on short bows.

[Hamish]

I would really like to hear more about short bows, Sleek.

[RyanY]

Id be happy to have another volume as well. We could use it to correct the errors in the first 4, and add further knowledge discovered since then. My focus on my notes has been the short bow, specific to the recurve. If I can prove my theories at the salt flats this year, and if I'm asked, maybe I could do a chapter on the hows and whys on short bows.

I too would be very interested in hearing your thoughts.

[sleek]

I have considered doing a mini series to be published in PA magazine, one chapter an issue for a complete year. They said they would like me to write for them but I'm not certain they understand the quantity of info I'm wanting to put out, and if they would give me enough pages. But that was a route I was considering that didn't involve a book.

[Hamish]

Serialized articles, (in Trad Bowhunter?)from memory , I think that's how Dean Torges wrote Hunting the Osage Bow, and then eventually published it as a book.

[sleek]

Good to know there is a model to show it has worked in the past then.