At the time of this writing, there are 40 quotations by YOU in the book. YOU means Wilsonia cabin owners.
Who knew that getting other people to do my writing would be so very difficult?? Look at this list:
- Ask for quotes
- Ask again, because not enough people responded.
- Ask again, because people didn’t understand that I am not looking for history but for details about cabin life. Details, stories, thoughts, stuff about cabin life today.
- Edit, because people submit paragraphs and pages in response to a request for “a few lines“. (Editing is fun – if I had a career do-over, I might choose to be an editor.)
- Email the edited quotes, because I need people’s permission to rearrange their words if I plan to put their names on it.
- Put the quotes in the book, mess with 2 different typestyles and 2 different formats, then scoot and resize and rearrange the page to accommodate the quotes. (This is not fun – if I had a career do-over, I would not choose computer operator.)
- Decide if there are too many or if the subject matter is too redundant or if I am putting a dumb quote in because I really enjoyed listening to the person tell me about his life at the cabin or because I really like that person.
- Toughen up a little inside so that when someone gets upset with me at not including his quote after the book is published, then I won’t be crushed by their disappointment.
- Wonder if I should take all the quotes received that don’t fit and make an extra page at the end of the book. Or the middle. Or the beginning. Or on a hand-out sheet.
- Decide that #9 is a poor idea, especially the handout sheet.