Writing a UFO book, your thoughts...

[mojo]

Hi all,
It's going on 21 months of contact and over a hundred UFO video clips on my channel. The story is not over. The sightings are still happening and have evolved. I would like to write a book about this experience. I might be able to shoot video but I have never looked at myself as a good writer. I would like to ask anyone their thoughts on how I should proceed and go about writing a good book at low cost. Thanks...

[Maia Gabrial]

Hey Mojo,
It's a great idea. Hope you're very successful and reach many readers!
I have a weird suggestion for a different angle. Why not write it in the form of a How-to-handle-your-ufo-sightings and encounters book?You could still use all of your photographs.... It could be a way to prepare people for what's about to come soon....
Like I said, it's just a suggestion.... :o
Maia

[king anthony]

I would like to ask anyone their thoughts on how I should proceed and go about writing a good book at low cost.

List your "topics", point form your material and know it - open a word document (for each section) and start with the first letter on the page. Once that is, then reread, revise and reread - eventually something will take form - it is called a book.


...prepare people for what's about to come soon....

I say, these things have been, are now and will be - the time to come, the harvest to the great forgetting will be once again.

[shadowstalker]

Writing a book can be simple.

Write in your own language and keep it honest. And TAKE YOUR TIME,
Do not make yourself feel that you are on a time schedule because your not , unless your want a timed schedule.
lulu.com is self publishing it's free.
But advertising can be hard, as you would have to do your own advertising.

When you finally publish your book plz contact me as I have a site that I put self publishers on

[karelia]

Hi all,
It's going on 21 months of contact and over a hundred UFO video clips on my channel. The story is not over. The sightings are still happening and have evolved. I would like to write a book about this experience. I might be able to shoot video but I have never looked at myself as a good writer. I would like to ask anyone their thoughts on how I should proceed and go about writing a good book at low cost. Thanks...

Writing a book is one thing. Finding a market for it is an entirely different story. If you're happy to simply write an account of your experiences, in any chosen format, you will probably find the process liberating and amazing, and you won't think about publishing for a long time or perhaps not at all.

But if you're going to write it with a view to publishing it, you may find it impossibly hard to do. Sure, lulu.com is cheap (it is NOT free) and probably the only reputable self-publishing house out there (stay away from vanity publishers; they're out to get your money, and you will never sell more than a handful of books, if that). The problem with self-publishing is that you have to promote the book in order for the world to know it's there and to have an interest in buying it. It works for some, but it's a definite minority. On the other hand, if you're prepared to contact agents/publishers, you may find yourself getting one rejection after another, which can be a great downer.

If you just want to write because you have a story you want to share, then I would say definitely go for it. There are online fiction archives where you can post your story, receive feedback, etc. It all very much depends on your motives for writing. Good luck with it!

[mojo]

Dear Friends,
Thank you so much for the feedback! You have given me alot to think about and it will be very helpful in determining which way to proceed. I have shared a good majority of information in the many posts here and I consider Avalon my family. I have tried to reach out to many other researchers and contactee's in the past with little luck. None I knew were having similar contact. The information and observations I collected might help others and the story is quite different, so I think it would make a good read at the very least. If anyone is interested in helping perhaps we could share in the adventure together and that would be awesome. I would like to find someone that could help proof read and/or have other skills in book writing helping to make this dream possible and of course sharing in the credit and perhaps sharing a sighting event as unbiased witness could be part of the prize. Thanks again....mojo

[Decibellistics]

Holy **** Mojo. I have never seen your page. Absolutely amazing. I tend to create a giant outline or skeleton, and form the skeleton with a flow within it depending on what the point is trying to be made towards the end. That's the best I can say. You can go topic by topic or make it a long narrative depending on your style choice. You could also shoot a documentary if you felt more comfortable with the video editing and sound process. Meh.......I too have never felt great about writing. You could try recording yourself speaking or talking about it and attempt to transcribe it too with a more literary take than just a straight transcription I suppose.

Regardless, I would say do it either way. You have some killer material sir!

[mojo]

Hi Decibellistics...excellent pointers which I will keep in mind...thank you also for the nice comments.