Finishing one book a few months ago only made me more anxious to start my next book. But what should I write about? The subject of the last book was easy to commit to because I had a personal interest in it. I recommend that to you too. Find a subject you are passionate, or at least intensely curious about, and write on that subject. Your fascination in the subject is what will keep you going. But what should my next book be about? I am not sure I am passionate enough about any topic right now to commit the better part of two years to it.
One of the ideas I jumped on a long time ago was to keep an idea journal: it is for ideas about anything. If I come up with an idea for a new business or a way to reduce greenhouse gases, it goes in the journal. And if I come up with an idea for a book, a subject that MIGHT fascinate me, that too goes into the journal. I probably have about a dozen book ideas in my journal right now, some of which may even fascinate me at some point in time, but not today.
I don’t think I’m giving away too much of my forthcoming book by telling you that one of the major reasons men over 40 have not married is because they have not found the right one. These men would rather remain single than marry what they perceive to be the wrong woman. So there I was one day having lunch with my girlfriend and a friend of hers, a divorced mother of one. Naturally the topic of marriage and divorce came up during the meal as I explained to my girlfriend’s friend the details of my forthcoming book. Then she relayed something to me that fascinated me. She told me that she knew, even before she married her husband, that the marriage would end in divorce. She just didn’t listen to her inner voice.
