Okay, time for the weekly update on how I’m doing with the writing of my forthcoming book, “Confessions Of A Spiteful Writer.”
I got Chapter Nine completed and I’ve started on Chapter Ten. My goal for this week is to finish up Chapter Ten and maybe Chapter Eleven and then I’m just about halfway done with the writing stage of the book.
Once the book is written I have to deal with the cover and putting it together to post it on Lulu. But I’m not even going to think about that till it’s closer to being written.
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I posted my weekly YouTube video which is a little bit of a companion to the book and if you want to see this week’s video, just click here or on the picture below to see this episode which is the second part of me talking about my favorite issue of fishwrap, the magazine I published for six years when I lived in New York City. This issue featured an oral history of the early days of Rolling Stone magazine.
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Chapter Four: 1990: Goodbye To A Girlfriend and Hello To a New Chapter In My Life
The next day she called and asked me to come over to her place and once I was there she gave me an ultimatum. She said I either had to forget about the magazine and my writing and concentrate on work and our relationship or it was all over between the two of us. She said she couldn’t live in both worlds anymore.
I told her I had to do the magazine, she started crying and after a few more tense words, I left. We stayed in touch, but that was the end of Marty and Lily and the start of People of Peoria magazine. A new chapter in my life was about to start unfolding. This was in the beginning of February, 1990.
I went home and promptly called my brother Jim. I explained my magazine concept to him and told him I had broken up with Lily. I also told him about my meeting with the Peoria Journal Star editor. He loved the fact that I called her a cunt in the lobby of the newspaper and we both had a good laugh over that moment in time!
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We’ll have a new MBIP Sunday Links blog here on this coming Sunday, August 25, so I’ll see you all then!
Now I have to get back to writing Chapter Ten and hopefully eleven! See you all, Sunday and on social media tomorrow and Saturday!
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Related Posts: Confessions Of A Spiteful Writer: Part Part One, Two, Three and Four.