My Book, Update

I'm writing a book on deer hunting for new deer hunters.

Time in the Tree is the working title.  This title idea was inspired by the title of the book Time on the Water by Bill Gardner.

At one time I thought that my book might read like his, as a journal of the days.  But I am a terrible journal writer and I did not take very good notes through the last hunting season.  The few thoughts that I did record may be included, but they will not be a large part of the book.

It has been day after day of no writing followed by writing several thousand words in one sitting.  I relate this point because authors are often asked about when and how they write.

As of this post I have around 14,400 words written, in MS Word, through sixteen chapter ideas.  And I have not really gotten to the actual hunting part yet.

Before writing I looked up how many words should be in a book.  The result that I got was 60,000 words.  That is my goal, sort of.  My book may be 40,000 words or 100,000.  I would like it to cover all of the necessary parts with a little bit of background information.

I realize that many books get around 1/3 of their content trimmed before being published.  This is a good idea even if my book will be self published, not published by a professional publisher.  Trim the fat.

Fully, or partially, written chapters so far:

1. Who? What? Why? When? Where? How?  
2. About the whitetail deer
3. Antlers, not horns
4. Where, generally, to hunt for deer
5. Alternatives to hunting your own private land
6. Improving your hunting property, the not so fun part
7. Improving your hunting property, the fun part
8. Food plots
9. How to make your food plots
10. Methods of hunting whitetail deer (should me moved to after "Where, generally...")
11. Stand locating
12. Trail, or game, cameras
13. Types of deer stands
14. The ideal stand
15. Treestand recommendations
16. How to place your treestand  

These are the working titles for the chapters that have been roughly written or outlined so far.

This post was written with the idea that the process of writing a book c might be interesting itself.

If you have any suggestions, or comments, for my first book, then I will be happy to hear them.

My book is about learning to hunt deer.  Perhaps this blog will include learning how to write and self publish a book. 

(The book will be better proofread than the posts here.) 

Happy hunting.