Your mon has an intersting profession as musician. I bet she has tons of stories. I started to outline the book that I'm going to start working on this year. I've been a short story writer so this is a large step for me. I'm reading, "This Year You Write Your Novel" by Walter Mosely. The toughest thing about writing is writing or getting yourself to do it everyday-or often. Good luck with it biographies are alwys a great read.

get into it!

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That sounds like a really great project! And, it will be tough, but if you keep organized you'll pull it off easily! That I'm totally sure of! It also sounds like a wonderful way to really get to know your mom and all the things that - we as the kids - never end up hearing about. You could start interviewing everyone she sang with and the club owners of past and present. Even the fans who've come out to see her through the years. It really sounds wonderful and I wish you well! Let me know if I can help out in any way. I'm pretty good at giving "editor's" notes. LOL

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I will definitely call upon your expertise for this I am sure. There is probably quite a lot that I don't know about because we were so little when she started doing gigs on a regular basis. The sad thing for me is there is a little guilt involved when it comes to the fact that I didn't make more of an effort to go and see her play as much as I wanted to. Having kids at 20, 21, and 23 I was really tied down to them. I don't drink, so I have never really been a bar kind of person. I also lived in Kansas and she has always been in Missouri(Kansas City). I am ready to get started though, so onward march!

this is a big step but i am so proud of you for deciding to take it! i know we are all here backing you and ready to buy an autographed copy of your book when it's done! :-D

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you have a goal in mind, and I hope you can get there. As for advice, I'm going to recommend that, when you're ready to go, purchase some voice recognition software to help you along. I used it when I wrote my first book. It doesn't work so easily when you're doing dialogue, and of course there will be mistakes, but just getting it all down to begin with is really the most important step, since you'd be reading and editing it on the back end anyway. At the time I used Via Voice, but now I have Dragon.

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I love the way you write on your blog and I think you'll do a fabulous job with this biography. My one piece of advice, write naturally - don't go trying to put together a different 'voice' for your book. Then, have an experienced editor make all the punctuation and grammar fixes. That will, first of all, make the writing much easier and will also make it a much better read. I can't remember the name of the guy who said this but some very well respected, very largely published author once said, "I can't spell for shit but my editor can."