New book!

I've started writing my 3rd tiny book

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After publishing Tiny Book Author, the urge to work on another book project soon presented itself again.

What could my next tiny book be about? I thought.

In my head, I could only come up with “maybe” ideas.

Maybe I could write about death: how scared I am of it, what I believe we’ll find after it, how I handled the death of some of my friends and family members, and so on.

Hmm…lukewarm idea.

Okay, maybe I could write a collection of random stories from my life.

Nah, I didn’t like that either.

Then I thought, Maybe I could write about my two-year experience in Australia. I had the best time of my life there and learned so much, so I could write a tiny memoir.

I liked this one! But then I realised I don’t have enough experience with memoirs. I’ve only read a couple, and I’m not very familiar with the genre. That makes it an exciting project for the future, not right now.

Finally, I found my “HELL YEAH!” idea

As part of a task for the Tiny Book Writer’s Room, I asked the writers to introduce their tiny book ideas, and I introduced mine as well.

I posted:

[I can write] a tiny book about veganism. I went vegetarian in 2011 and then vegan in 2016, so this can easily be a collection of personal stories about my experience with a plant-based lifestyle.

I can include anecdotes about reasons for going vegan, mistakes, struggles, funny moments, weird things people said to me as a vegan, dishes, shopping, etc. I have lots to say!

Who would it be for?

Vegetarians, vegans, and people who want to go vegan.

Writing this book would be less challenging than writing the one about Australia. I'd use the same format (tiny, stand-alone chapters) as I did in my first two books.

Part of me is saying, "You're not leaving your comfort zone." Another part of me is telling me, "Non c'è 2 senza 3," an Italian idiom meaning "There's no 2 without 3."

I'm noticing my level of excitement right now. It's higher when I think about the book about veganism, so I'll be writing the intro and see where that takes me.

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Two days later, I started writing the introduction, and…hell yeah! Confirmed!

I have the stories. I have the experience. I have the right excitement. And I know who the book is for and what it is for. That’s it: all the elements to start writing are there.

I’m writing my third tiny book now. 🥦

Don’t have well-defined ideas yet? No worries. Keep thinking and exploring what your tiny project can focus on. Trust that this pre-writing phase will then end with a “hell yeah,” and you’ll be excited to start writing.