T-pisode 301: “T-blawg The Book” Part 2

You have NO idea how many damn book title options popped into my head the last two years! Still leaning towards “I’m AWESOME” or possibly “You Know Damn Well Nobody Wore Their Hat Like This Until T-blawg Came On The Scene In 2009 So Stop Playing And Google It If You Don’t Believe Me, Bro. I’ll Wait.”

The first time I let the world know that I was writing a book was WAY back in 2013. And by world I mean my friends and family. They knew first before I wrote about it here with this T-pisode. My inner circle reacted the way I thought they would react. By completely supporting me knowing that once I set a goal for myself I won’t stop until I complete it. The “outer circle” also reacted the way I thought they would. With “Why, T?” Because they don’t get me like my closest people do. And that’s ok. Totally understandable. That’s not their fault. It’s mine. Then I came here and let all of you know.

After that T-pisode was posted I started 2014 strong. With the same approach that I put every goal into action. With a game plan. So I spent a BIG chunk of 2014 reading 207 T-pisodes. Yep. I sure did yo. I went back and read my own stories. I read all about my life. The lessons, the successes, the mistakes, the pains, the wins, everything. I smiled a lot. I laughed a lot. I cringed at times. Even I couldn’t believe some of the things I did and survived in life…so far. There were even times a tear came to my eye. Some of it opened up old wounds. Did I over share here? Oh yeah I did. Would I change a thing? No. Never. All of that reassured me that T-blawg was the most original thing on the internet EVER. So after that, I pulled all 207 T-pisodes and placed them into buckets. By date and by category. I jumped around a lot in my life here those first four years. I tried to “re-piece” everything back together into chronological order. That I certainly did not enjoy. Then I built an outline and between everything else going on in my life it was the end of 2014. But I started a draft and then in 2015, I really got busy. But I couldn’t find my voice. Writing here I am definitely speaking my words but in written form. Writing scripts, I create characters and scenes influenced heavily at times by my life. But the book was something different. So after that draft failed, I started a new game plan. I decided to write out of chronological order by jumping around in my life within the first 200 T-pisodes written here. Then I scrapped THAT draft. There was no way in hell I was going to write a 200 chapter book. Then my day job got busy, life picked up for me in other ways and I decided to focus on all of that by going on my 6 month sabbatical from here while also writing the book. I did many more drafts finally deciding on a core of 45-50 T-pisodes by expanding each one into 3-5 page chapters. The result would be a 200 page T-blawg point of view book on my life. I found my voice. I found my book style. And then I came back to T-blawg. And here I am today. Writing. Writing. WRITING. And oh yeah, living my life still going like a beast 18 hours day! Thug life.

My plan is to not only finish the book in 2016 but to also publish it. Whether I find a publisher or self publish it myself, it will be finished and it shall be published! And hopefully sold. And then I will add one more medium to the T-blawg hall of fame and the title of author to my still growing list of accomplishments. The next update on “T-blawg The Book” here will hopefully be that it is finally written. And then I plan on taking T-blawg to another place and level. Television and film combined with T-blawg would be a dream come true for me. A dream? Or just another goal for me? And we all know about me and goals at this point, right? Stay tuned.

Until next time. Always take it there.