Okay, so far I’ve got the introduction and first chapter written for my upcoming book, “Travelings With Marty.”
The last two weeks have been kind of a bust because I’ve got things going on that have kept me pretty busy. I’m probably going to take a week off in October and just to devote myself to writing the book.
Here’s the section of the Introduction that details the exact moment I decided to become a writer in my life. The book I’m referring to in the snippet is a joke cookbook that my friend, Greg Owens and I published called, Gone With The Burp, that we put out the year after we did our Idiot Trivia game that landed us on The Today Show.
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After the book came out I was hanging out at Jimmy’s Bar here in Peoria and flirting with a very drunken, boozed-up and bosomy woman. I was 27-years-old at the time and she was probably in her mid 30’s. I showed her a copy of the Burp book in what I thought was probably a feeble attempt to try and impress her.
Even though she was seven and a half sheets to the wind, she still was able to look through it and she asked me who wrote it.
“I did,” I told her while cocking my right eyebrow upwards.
Her red, glassy and somewhat swollen eyes opened wide and she drunkenly swooned, “Oooh…so you’re a writer?”
The next morning, after waking up in her broken down trailer I realized that intoxicated trailer park bimbos would have drunken sex with you if you’re a writer. It was quite an eye-opening revelation for me.
A writer was something I never had the foggiest notion of being and now the thought of it greatly intrigued me.
I quickly threw my clothes on and crept out of her trailer while she was still sleeping.
Driving home I thought to myself, “Fuck it, I think I’ll be a writer.”
And so that’s exactly what I did.
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I’m Currently Reading…
Right now I’m on page 163 and they’ve just been signed to Def Jam Records and things are starting to happen for them. I’ll write my own synopsis when I’m done with the book. In the meantime, here’s some reviews and articles about the book.
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Okay, back to working on Chapter Two of my book. See you all tomorrow for my final grilling post of the season!
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Related Posts: Last Week’s Month of the Book Club.