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Wish me luck, in 2 minutes I'm resuming a project I halted 2 years ago. Status report, 2/19.

RonBurgundyRonBurgundy Posts: 5,491 ✭✭✭
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It's not a card project, but rather a personal writing project I worked on consistently from Sept. 2007 to June 2008, then in typical ADD fashion, I stopped.

I'm starting up again. The goal is to finish by September 19, 2010.

Encouragement would be welcomed!
Ron Burgundy

Buying Vintage, all sports.
Buying Woody Hayes, Les Horvath, Vic Janowicz, and Jesse Owens autographed items

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  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 31,843 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Ron just put as much effort into it as you scouring for sweet looking raw cards and you will do just fine! image


    Best of luck.
  • Downtown1974Downtown1974 Posts: 7,002 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Congrats Ron and good luck! What is the topic of your material?
  • DrJDrJ Posts: 2,213
    Novel or Biography?
  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,487 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Good luck!

    mike
    Mike
  • billwaltonsbeardbillwaltonsbeard Posts: 3,748 ✭✭✭✭
    Smelly Pirate Hooker Tales?
    My cards on COMC
  • stormsurgestormsurge Posts: 858 ✭✭
    If it is a book, good luck to you! I have been working on a fiction book for years, there are tough to write and even tougher to write well!
  • RonBurgundyRonBurgundy Posts: 5,491 ✭✭✭
    It is a book, or is at least intended to be. It is fictional. I don't want to reveal the topic or details just yet - probably not until it's finished - but the idea came to me in the middle of the night 2 1/2 years ago, and it's time to finish it.

    Odd thing is, when I stopped in 2008 I had knocked out the hard parts - the rest of it I already know where I'm going, it's all outlined and is the half I originally conceived. I just need to flesh it out onto paper.

    I don't care if it is ever published, I really don't even care if a single person reads it. I just want to be able to say I finished it.
    Ron Burgundy

    Buying Vintage, all sports.
    Buying Woody Hayes, Les Horvath, Vic Janowicz, and Jesse Owens autographed items
  • DboneesqDboneesq Posts: 18,219 ✭✭
    GOOD LUCK WITH THE BOOK. Keep focused and you WILL finish it!

    Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives. ANTHONY ROBBINS
    STAY HEALTHY!

    Doug

    Liquidating my collection for the 3rd and final time. Time for others to enjoy what I have enjoyed over the last several decades. Money could be put to better use.
  • vladguerrerovladguerrero Posts: 4,077 ✭✭✭
    Best of luck, just think of the sense of accomplishment when you finish!
  • SOMSOM Posts: 1,555 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I don't care if it is ever published, I really don't even care if a single person reads it. I just want to be able to say I finished it. >>


    Precisely my own motivations for the novel I wrote!

    And guess what?

    It didn't get published (I did it myself), no one read it (other than friends and family) but - the best part was -

    I could say I finished it!

    And I have proof. Sitting in my bookcase, right next to a Jack London novel.

    Do it, Ron!
  • BrickBrick Posts: 5,001 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Now that you've announced your plans we will ask for updates on your progress. That could be a good thing to help you stay motivated. Good Luck. image
    Collecting 1960 Topps Baseball in PSA 8
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    Ralph

  • stownstown Posts: 11,321 ✭✭✭
    I'm sorry this happened to you?
    So basically my kid won't be able to go to college, but at least I'll have a set where the three most expensive cards are of a player I despise ~ CDsNuts
  • captainthreeputtcaptainthreeputt Posts: 1,235 ✭✭
    Hi Ron,

    I do not know you yet, and I joined the message board only a few short weeks ago. That being said, I have read many of your posts and watched how you conduct yourself. I have no doubt in my mind that you will commit to this project and be very successful.

    Good luck, we are rooting for you. Keep us posted on your progress.
    1911 C55 hockey
    1935 National Chicle
    1961 Golden Press
    1962 Bell Brand Dodgers
    Top 200 cards in the hobby
    Top 250 cards in the hobby
    All time lakers
    All time Dodgers
    1957 Disney Characters
    1965 Donruss Disneyland
    1966 Get Smart
    Brian
  • RonBurgundyRonBurgundy Posts: 5,491 ✭✭✭
    Thanks to all and keep up the encouragement, it makes all the difference in the world.

    I dragged the work to date back out a few weeks ago and reviewed it last night. I am my own worst critic when it comes to my work. But when I read through it, I thought it wasn't half bad. image That told me I need to finish it.
    Ron Burgundy

    Buying Vintage, all sports.
    Buying Woody Hayes, Les Horvath, Vic Janowicz, and Jesse Owens autographed items
  • Bosox1976Bosox1976 Posts: 8,567 ✭✭✭✭✭
    An old girlfriend of mine got her first novel published (to some acclaim too - Tethered is the title) last year -- it can be done! Go get 'em!
    Mike
    Bosox1976
  • daddymcdaddymc Posts: 3,080 ✭✭✭
    Ron good luck on the book and stay focused. I'm sure you get it done. image
    Currently working on: Kurt Warner PSA 9 or 10

  • JHS5120JHS5120 Posts: 1,968 ✭✭✭
    Don't look at it as a task. Look at it as a wonderful hobby that you enjoy and you will be finished in no time! Good Luck!
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    "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." Dr. Seuss
  • RAPTORSRULE04RAPTORSRULE04 Posts: 194 ✭✭✭
    It is always fun to do something you want to do no matter how much work. I hope you enjoy it.
  • leadoff4leadoff4 Posts: 2,392 ✭
    From news anchor to author... only in America. Good luck! (P.S. we still need some older cards on the BST board from you)
  • SidePocketSidePocket Posts: 2,901 ✭✭✭
    We'll read it so you can count on a couple dozen copies being purchased. Give us a sniff.

    "Molon Labe"

  • lbcoach20lbcoach20 Posts: 883 ✭✭✭
    I'm a fourth grade teacher and the thing I preach to my students is finish what you started. When they do their sense of accomplishment becomes a reality. Get it done and don't shortchange yourself no matter what. We are all behind you!!!
  • MrGMrG Posts: 623 ✭✭✭
    Best of Luck!

    MrG
    Michael Gaytan (MrG)
    TGF Collection
    TGF Sports
  • gumbyfangumbyfan Posts: 5,168 ✭✭✭
    Best of luck achieving your goal!

    As someone with many incomplete projects on my plate, I haven't decided if it's ADD that's stopping my progress on them or just a general lack of discipline.

    Oooh...shiny things....
  • richtreerichtree Posts: 1,501 ✭✭✭
    good luck
    Buying:
    Topps White Out (silver) letters Alex Gordon
    80 Topps Greg Pryor “No Name"
    90 ProSet Dexter Manley error
    90 Topps Jeff King Yellow back
    1958 Topps Pancho Herrera (no“a”)
    81 Topps Art Howe (black smear above hat)
    91 D A. Hawkins BC-12 “Pitcher”
  • RonBurgundyRonBurgundy Posts: 5,491 ✭✭✭
    2 consecutive days of working on this now. I am on a streak!
    Ron Burgundy

    Buying Vintage, all sports.
    Buying Woody Hayes, Les Horvath, Vic Janowicz, and Jesse Owens autographed items
  • DaddyRichDaddyRich Posts: 241 ✭✭
    Good stuff. I send mu best wishes and encouragement. Chalk up another pre-sale over here.
    Just glad to be here with everyone.
  • RonBurgundyRonBurgundy Posts: 5,491 ✭✭✭
    Status report, one month later. Another chapter has been finished and another one was started today. I'm estimating 6-10 more chapters and about 70-100K words will finish this sucker. I just have to get there. Once it's all out on paper, I will actually enjoy the edit/re-write process.

    Target date to complete: September 19, 2010. Seven months from today.
    Ron Burgundy

    Buying Vintage, all sports.
    Buying Woody Hayes, Les Horvath, Vic Janowicz, and Jesse Owens autographed items
  • stownstown Posts: 11,321 ✭✭✭
    What's the title? I wanna know so can register the website and then extort money from you.

    kthanxbi

    image
    So basically my kid won't be able to go to college, but at least I'll have a set where the three most expensive cards are of a player I despise ~ CDsNuts
  • RonBurgundyRonBurgundy Posts: 5,491 ✭✭✭
    Cards for Dummies. image
    Ron Burgundy

    Buying Vintage, all sports.
    Buying Woody Hayes, Les Horvath, Vic Janowicz, and Jesse Owens autographed items
  • YogiBerraFanYogiBerraFan Posts: 2,390 ✭✭


    << <i>Status report, one month later. Another chapter has been finished and another one was started today. I'm estimating 6-10 more chapters and about 70-100K words will finish this sucker. I just have to get there. Once it's all out on paper, I will actually enjoy the edit/re-write process.

    Target date to complete: September 19, 2010. Seven months from today. >>



    Sounds like a great project. Good luck and thanks again for the great card you sold me.
  • 72skywalker72skywalker Posts: 1,554 ✭✭✭
    Congrats, I just finished my first book a few years ago...now I am going to read another one.
    Collecting Yankees and vintage Star Wars
  • SidePocketSidePocket Posts: 2,901 ✭✭✭
    Congrats, I just finished my first book a few years ago...now I am going to read another one.

    Good one

    "Molon Labe"

  • Bosox1976Bosox1976 Posts: 8,567 ✭✭✭✭✭
    From Steve Martin:

    Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol. Sure, a writer can get stuck for a while, but when that happens to a real author -- say, a Socrates or a Rodman -- he goes out and gets an "as told to." The alternative is to hire yourself out as an "as heard from," thus taking all the credit. The other trick I use when I have a momentary stoppage is virtually foolproof, and I'm happy to pass it along. Go to an already published novel and find a sentence that you absolutely adore. Copy it down in your manuscript. Usually, that sentence will lead you to another sentence, and pretty soon your own ideas will start to flow. If they don't, copy down the next sentence in the novel. You can safely use up to three sentences of someone else's work -- unless you're friends, then two. The odds of being found out are very slim, and even if you are there's usually no jail time.
    Mike
    Bosox1976
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