Just be sure if you’re thinking of ever getting published to get a marketing platform along the way. I think I mentioned this on my blog, probably in comments.

Literary Market Place states, in so many words, that you’re “wasting your time” submitting nonfiction book proposals unless you can virtually gurarantee book sales by having some measure of public standing. I hear it’s getting the same way with fiction.

I spent 25 years on a book that came out beyond my best expectations of what I could do; and have better qualifications academically and experientially than most people writing in the genre. But it will never be published. After reading the remark in LMP, I wasn’t going to NOT try, what with all that behind it.

I ended up with about half a dozen complimentary rejections and the rest basically never even glanced at my submission - returned in pristine condition with an unsigned form letter or signed by an intern.

“We are here; we are human beings; this is how we lived. Let it be known, the earth passed before us. Our details are important. Otherwise, if they are not, we can drop a a bomb and it doesn’t matter.”
from writer Natalie Goldberg

Wishing you more time in that slower, more attentive space.