Thrive Titbit 3

Well, I’ve done it: I’ve just pressed the ’send’ button on the email with the finished manuscript for ‘Thrive: the Bah! Guide to Wellness after cancer’ attached. (Most of the sentences in the book make more sense than that last one. I hope. I think I may have exhausted the writing part of my brain, for a bit. You might want to bring strong coffee and stronger painkillers to the blog for the next few days.)

Although Hay House saw the completed manuscript before making an offer, when I sat down to go through it, and put my editor’s excellent suggestions into practice – I found there was quite a lot I wanted to change. There was the odd lazy paragraph and there were places where I was letting the blog do too much of the work. And then there’s the fact that, in the nine months since the first version went out, I’ve got some new perspectives on thriving.

So the book that I’m sending feels fresh and new. It’s shorter than Bah! but I’m a great believer in books being the length that they need to be, and I’ve always seen Thrive as a slender volume of quiet support, easy to carry with you, sitting neatly with the notebook that you’ll need to go with it. It’s small, but it’s powerful.

I’m proud of Thrive. I feel a little nervous about it being out there, but I’m happy with it, and I feel excited and glad and as though I am being useful in writing it.

Next, I’ll get feedback from my editor about any other changes she’d like to see. I’ll let you know what she thinks.

And I will be relieved that the book is done, for a couple of days, and then feel a little bit bereft and start getting ready to scratch the itch of the next one.