Hi Marc, password is "thebook" access fine for forum members but if it gets to 200 pages a few people have said I should pursue a publisher but atm I don't think I'm a good enough writer personally.
Regards,
Tony
You write quite well.
I'll relate a story told by an old sportswriter for one of the New York papers who died earlier this year having worked at the same paper since the 30s, save his time in WWII. He related how, as a young copyboy and runner for the reporters, he was suddenly assigned to go cover a night of boxing at the old Madison Square Garden when the regular reporter showed up too drunk to work. He got there and sat in the press box trying to figure out how to go about writing the story and was coming up blank. One of the more experienced reporters saw his plight, took him aside, and told him: "the way you write your story is to imagine you're sitting down to write a letter to your friend to tell him about the fight. Just tell your friend what happened and how, and describe what you saw. Don't try to be fancy, just tell him all about it."
65 years later, that reporter was still working, writing in that plain informative style. So, I guess that was good advice. It seems to have worked.
Frankly, I think you should elaborate more on what you're doing and how and why. There's a lot going on that should be described, when you're portraying this gunsmithing operation or that in a sentence or a paragraph.
