This Has me Completely Rattled

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I am writing a book. It’s part memoir, part self-help. When people ask me what the book is about, that is what I say.

And people like to ask that a lot. As soon as I tell them “I am writing a book”. Their next question is “What is the book about?”

In all its honesty I don’t know what the book will become. I know what I am writing this moment. That is all. Like I know right now I am writing about how this one part of the book has me completely rattled. I haven’t gotten to that part yet in this writing. I am setting the scene.

But I don’t know what will be left on that page at the end of my writing. When I enter the last period and give out a big sigh, which to me indicates that I am done!

It tells me: that I am done writing. This piece is over. There are no more words that will come out without me forcing them. And if you write, you know you cannot force the words. 

Similarly for the book, the truthful answer is “I don’t know”. But that is not a sentence we are comfortable with as a society. We need to know everything! So that’s the answer I give. 

“I am writing a Memoir which is also a self-help book plus it has mythological stories from Female Goddesses and Archetypes from around the world.”