I’m headed for the wire on this manuscript and still lagging behind where I ought to be. But at least I can report that I had a pretty good writing day on Tuesday. The story is moving toward its conclusion. Ideas are clicking into place. At this point I’m trying to worry less about word and page count and more about just getting the story on paper. Nothing can be fixed as long as it is just an idea in my head. I’ve got to get the ideas out of me first. Then I can fiddle and tweak.
I realized last week that my next project, the book that will release in October 2006, will be my 50th published book. That’s rather amazing to me. I know quite a few authors who have written far more than that. I think Gilbert Morris is up to 206 or 209. Angela Elwell Hunt is over 100. Still, I’m looking at #50 and thinking, Wow! Who’d have ever thought it? I wrote my first novel just to see if I could do it. That was 24 years ago.
I am anxious to get to do some of my "after the book is done" cleaning. I have more piles of paper and "stuff" in this house, things that need sorted and filed or shredded, things that need put away, given away, or thrown away. Every once in a while I think about the possibility of selling my home and moving some place where I don’t have such a big yard to tend to (maybe into a town home where there is no yard work at all). Then I think about what "moving" means and I shudder at the overwhelming task it would be to pack up just the books in my library alone. I have over 1500, maybe closer to 2000. Research books. Reference books. Novels by the scores. Bibles and Bible studies and Christian living and devotionals and … Well, you get the picture.
So, how many hundreds of books do you own? Not so many that you won’t buy more of mine, I hope. Guess I’d better finish writing it.
-rlh-
Have started some of my books, Robin, because I definitely want to move into a rancher someday. We combined two households 15 years ago and still have almost all the “stuff.” Argghh. Never mind. I’m not moving. I don’t have the energy. LOL
*Oops.* That was supposed to say I have “started donating” my books.
3000+, but that’s just an estimate from counting the number of books on a random shelf and multiplying that by the total number of shelves.
I enjoy reading your site, Robin.
I just moved to a condo in March – looks like a site built house, unattached, so it has all the convenience of a home and none of the headache of yardwork, snow removal, etc. Have to say it’s great and am I loving it! But it was truly the most grueling, back breaking week moving from an apt I lived in 20 years, and after 6 months I am finally settled in with just a couple more boxes to go… I know I don’t have the energy to move again, so this is it unless the Lord has other plans… I have tons of books overflowing shelves and cabinets too, but those were actually the easiest things I had to move — easy to box up for movers! It’s all that other stuff you mentioned that overwhelms!
Oh, girl, don’t get me started on this subject! I had 1500 books at last count. Last fall, in a wondrous fit of weeding out, I donated 300. But since then, of course, I’ve been acquiring more…including some of yours! 🙂 In general, though, my focus is on getting rid of stuff on an ongoing basis. Both my mother and my MIL were trapped by their accumulations, and I had to dig them out from under. I don’t want my kids to have to do me!!!
Somewhere in the vicinity of 50 100’s. We have bookshelves in every room big enough to have one.
Using a similar method as Jared’s, about 600 books (that’s my husband’s and mine together at home, he has more in the office.)