{"id":2450,"date":"2012-06-18T21:49:29","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T04:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=2450"},"modified":"2012-06-18T21:49:29","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T04:49:29","slug":"ex-writer-wants-to-ditch-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2012\/ex-writer-wants-to-ditch-x\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Writer Wants to Ditch X"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, a retired writer isn&#8217;t wanting to dump a former wife, husband, girlfriend, or boyfriend.<\/p>\n<p>How could anyone do that? Seems like an impossibility to me.<\/p>\n<p>Nope, this post is about something far more exciting. <span class=\"graystrike\">To me, anyway.<\/span> <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>If you go by the audio version of the title, you would understand that a certain former writer wants to resume his writing career.<\/p>\n<p>But if you go by the visual version of the title, you could conclude that the former writer wants to restart his authoring career as an e-writer.<\/p>\n<p>In the case of&#8230;well&#8230;me, both are true.<\/p>\n<p>You read what I wrote right: <b>I want to resume writing with the intent of self-publishing digitally.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>But what ever would I write? Or who would be my target audience?<\/p>\n<p>Well, you might be one of the few thousand people who know that for over a decade I wrote Sunday School material for Christian Light Publications. The majority of those years, I wrote each youth lesson&#8217;s fourth page, known as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anabaptists.org\/clp\/youth\/1-492.html\" title=\"One of Mark Roth's early youth pages\">&#8220;Applications for Youth&#8221;<\/a> (and eventually christened &#8220;The Youth Page,&#8221; at least informally). Toward the end of my time with CLP, I was writing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anabaptists.org\/clp\/youth\/2-405.html\" title=\"a sample of Mark Roth's Sunday School teacher helps\">the teacher&#8217;s portion<\/a> of each youth lesson.<\/p>\n<p>So right now (well, as of 8:01 or so this evening) I envision writing teacher helps and\/or devotional commentary for Sunday School lessons.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top:-1.2em\">\n<li>available by the quarter (as opposed to a lesson at a time)<\/li>\n<li>available at least a week before the quarter begins (instead of on a weekly basis)<\/li>\n<li>available on Amazon for Kindle<\/li>\n<li>available directly from me in several formats (wpd, doc, rtf, pdf)<\/li>\n<li>available via a members-only site where discussions also could take place \u2753<\/li>\n<li>available in print also \u2753<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For how much would I sell it? Oh, I have no idea. A dollar or two? <i>Shrug<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Remember, this is a self-publishing vision.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s a nightmare instead. \ud83d\ude2f<\/p>\n<p>Besides, I no longer have the abundance of courage, confidence, faith, zeal, vision, drive, and risk-taking I used to have. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>PS: I&#8217;ve been encouraged over the years to compile some of my previous Sunday School writings into a devotional-book edition. Our daughter Michayla generously offered to format it for Kindle and publication via Amazon. Maybe I should pick 31 as a one-month devotional as a toe-in-the-water test of interest &#8220;out there.&#8221; (See previous paragraph.)<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;d be simpler for me if you would just give me your feedback below&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I know! 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