Book thoughts.

I’m not sure if I’ve mentioned it here before (probably not, though I talked about it for awhile in real life) but coming up on four years of blogging, I have imagined that there might be a book of personal essays somewhere amongst all these posts. You know, take the favourites, rewrite, edit and then self-publish – perhaps including some of my photographs as well.

I thought about this quite seriously last summer, but come fall got busy and pretty much dropped the idea for lack of time and focus. While in Victoria over the weekend, my friend Anna was encouraging me on this subject again (which I appreciate greatly because if it wasn’t for supportive nudging I’d never have any confidence about this). Her suggestion was to choose 30 posts to work with and then go from there.

So rather than talk myself out of it I’m going to start with her suggestion, plus send some additional stuff to my friend Mel who is an editor for a living. But I’m wondering – for those of you who read this – which would you include? Any favourites that stand out for you? I’m curious if there is any opinion on this.