Book Rules Posting
6/04/08 - 5th Day - Midday. Ok, this is the re-post of the rules for the book we are going to be writing here on the blog. The first chapter (actually the introduction) is scheduled to be posted later this afternoon, so please check back before 5pm for the first installment. This post is so I will have a link to post at the top of each installment so people can check out the rules... so here are the rules...
We are going to write a book, you and I.
I have decided to turn the Off-Grid Living series I did last year on this blog into a book tentatively entitled...
Real Survival: Living Off-Off-Grid
I hope to capitalize on the current "survival" interest and give people a completely different philosophy than they've ever read about real survival.
I am going to almost completely re-write the series and put it into book form. Re-writing means that I am going to add a lot of things I have learned in the last year or two, and add more information that really wasn't conducive to the blog series.
I intend to post each Chapter (maybe 1 every week) on A Process Driven Life, then I will ask you guys to comment, edit, and help out with improving the chapter. What I would like is comments (such as.. "you might say something about X"), edits ("Bunker, you idiot, you misspelled X"), and even suggested improvements. In fact, you can write or re-write whole paragraphs that you think would be a help for the reader, and if I like it I will plagiarize it and put it into the book.
Here are the rules:
1. You can't get mad if I do not use, or if I ignore or reject, your idea or suggestion. Some of you are very good writers, but I do have an overall impression and idea of what I am trying to accomplish and what the philosophy is. A very, very great idea, may still not make it into the book if I feel it won't be right. In fact, some ideas may be included already in unpublished parts I have already written but have never put online.
2. I really want some participation. I want your help and you are able to make any and all suggestions for changes, additions, subtractions, etc. Don't think I will be mad because you say "this part stinks" or "just delete this part". Again, I may not follow your suggestion, but I sincerely do want to read them.
3. You aren't going to get any credit, except a general "thanks to the blog folks" in the beginning. You also aren't going to get any money, since there will never be much, and what little there is will go to support my family.
4. Your suggestion may be included in the book in its entirety, and then again, it may not get posted on the blog at all much less be in the book. It depends, and I claim sole authority and discretion over how the project progresses.
5. I won't be posting all the articles online for participation. Some are going to be top secret, after all - there still has to be a reason for you to go buy 10 copies of the book to give to your friends and family.
Please participate and comment, even if it is just to say "I really like this" or "I really hate this", because if there is not an appropriate amount of participation, I will quit spending the massive amount of time this takes to do this online.
***Each chapter will be posted, then throughout the next week until the next chapter appears, changes will be made to the actual post text, so if you are participating, you must go back and read the chapter to see the changes as they are posted.***
So, let's get started, shall we?
Michael Bunker
We are going to write a book, you and I.
I have decided to turn the Off-Grid Living series I did last year on this blog into a book tentatively entitled...
Real Survival: Living Off-Off-Grid
I hope to capitalize on the current "survival" interest and give people a completely different philosophy than they've ever read about real survival.
I am going to almost completely re-write the series and put it into book form. Re-writing means that I am going to add a lot of things I have learned in the last year or two, and add more information that really wasn't conducive to the blog series.
I intend to post each Chapter (maybe 1 every week) on A Process Driven Life, then I will ask you guys to comment, edit, and help out with improving the chapter. What I would like is comments (such as.. "you might say something about X"), edits ("Bunker, you idiot, you misspelled X"), and even suggested improvements. In fact, you can write or re-write whole paragraphs that you think would be a help for the reader, and if I like it I will plagiarize it and put it into the book.
Here are the rules:
1. You can't get mad if I do not use, or if I ignore or reject, your idea or suggestion. Some of you are very good writers, but I do have an overall impression and idea of what I am trying to accomplish and what the philosophy is. A very, very great idea, may still not make it into the book if I feel it won't be right. In fact, some ideas may be included already in unpublished parts I have already written but have never put online.
2. I really want some participation. I want your help and you are able to make any and all suggestions for changes, additions, subtractions, etc. Don't think I will be mad because you say "this part stinks" or "just delete this part". Again, I may not follow your suggestion, but I sincerely do want to read them.
3. You aren't going to get any credit, except a general "thanks to the blog folks" in the beginning. You also aren't going to get any money, since there will never be much, and what little there is will go to support my family.
4. Your suggestion may be included in the book in its entirety, and then again, it may not get posted on the blog at all much less be in the book. It depends, and I claim sole authority and discretion over how the project progresses.
5. I won't be posting all the articles online for participation. Some are going to be top secret, after all - there still has to be a reason for you to go buy 10 copies of the book to give to your friends and family.
Please participate and comment, even if it is just to say "I really like this" or "I really hate this", because if there is not an appropriate amount of participation, I will quit spending the massive amount of time this takes to do this online.
***Each chapter will be posted, then throughout the next week until the next chapter appears, changes will be made to the actual post text, so if you are participating, you must go back and read the chapter to see the changes as they are posted.***
So, let's get started, shall we?
Michael Bunker
posted by Michael Bunker at 6/04/2009 11:36:00 AM
2 Comments:
Putting the Off the Grid series into a book is a mighty fine idea. I hope you make a kazillion dollars. Really. A few months back I requested that you put me on the list to receive a copy of a book you were going to write. Is this it? I don't remember. Antywho... looking forward to purchasing a copy. Reading the previous 13 off the grid series, I believe it would make a great addition to the family library. Sonya
I am very interested is living off grid.. back to the basics so to speak, my grandchildren probably never will seen anything as it used to be done,like washing clothes with a scrub board...I do hang my clothes out to dry.I think it would do them some good to have to live like we used to, we took baths in the creek by Grandmas house, toted in well water,by the way that was cold and good in the middle of the summer.
I would sit in the middle of her strawberry garden and pick and eat more than I put in the basket. I miss those days.. I really enjoy this site,and the wonderful way you praise Our Father by the way you live your life..
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