Boating experiences

[Walter P]

Check out my last post under "E gads" regarding relating our HOF members' lifetime boating experiences for possible publishing. Responses here as a new thread.

Walt

 

[Walter P]

Sorry, I meant to refer to "Down goes Woodie" for my last post...

Walt

 

[REBrueckner]

Let me see if my pictures appear..location: Lloyds Harbor, NY, This September...baby seal hauled out for over an hour....was picked up by Riverhead seal rescue for health check...
one photo made it...in My Whaler

 

[Walter P]

Rob,

I think even things like your seal experience will be good. The idea is to present our boating life in a positive way so that folks can understand why we spend so much time and $ on our favorite activity. It should show things like social experiences, familys having fun together, adventures ranging from passages on the high seas (like across the Gulf of Mexico or Chesapeake Bay) to gunkholing and having a seal jumping into your tender. As I stated earlier, recollections from people like Jim Grove would be priceless and I believe would make interesting reading on a rainy weekend afternoon at some anchorage or in your living room with the snow falling outside. Don't stress trying to match experiences like the Perfect Storm, thankfully there are relatively few of them and they tend to turn people away rather then attract them to our lifestyle.

I will try to come up with some ideas/topics that some of you can relate to with personal experiences, so you can then write them. And again, please don't think you need to be able to write like Hemingway, we can get some professional writers to tweek the stories if necessary....

Walt

 

[DickB]

Walter:
I can tell you from practical experience, that, unless you have a publisher in your back pocket, finding one is nearly impossible. Magazines are different. They're always looking for filler. But for a publisher to fund the process, it's pretty difficult to get the material picked up.

I have two books out already, and a third due in the next couple of months. But to find a publisher for the book I'd really like to get into print--it's been a humbling experience being rejected so frequently. And all are about NW maritime history.
Dick

 

[Walter P]

Dick,

You may be right, but unless we try, we really don't know for sure, do we? My glass is never half empty, that's why in my 70+ years here I still feel optomistic about most things. If you believe in something hard enough and you're willing to work at selling your idea, someone will eventually listen. Failure is only failure if you don't try.

Please try to keep a half full glass.

Walt

 

[DickB]

Walter:
Thanks for the comments. Mine's more than half full. That's the only way I got three books out there in the first place. And it only took ten years! Perseverence certainly did pay off. While I would do it again, the process wasn't pretty! And I'm still in the process.
Dick