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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;treylxapi47, post: 1919823, member: 41863&quot;]Also, I find this sort of an arrogant statement to make. It comes across (and not saying this was your intention) as if because you have published a book that somehow you are part of this elite club of writers and no one else is equipped to do so. Every single Author out there had to write their first book, so its not some out of world experience to become published. Now publishing a GOOD book is much more difficult, but I dont see that as a real problem at this stage, you have to get it written first before you can find out if its good or bad, and I&#039;m nowhere near that level yet. </p><p><br /></p><p>Also, I think that you are under the impression that I believe I will just be able to research all of this, write it down, and have it published in like 6 months. That is NOT what I am trying to do, nor what I am after. I DO have experience researching from scratch a topic that I find interesting, doing all of the work WITHOUT asking for anyone&#039;s help that was alive (I used information I found in books and magazines and articles, mostly written 75 years before I decided to write on my topic), AND having it published to an audience of 100,000 people or so who are an active part of the organization I was writing for. So even though the experience was 5 years ago, and was relatively small, I still learned how to do some of the necessary work involved in writing for other things in life.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, my attitude may be coming across as cocky or confident in my ability to pen the book that I want, but again let me ask another question.</p><p><br /></p><p>Who wins the race?</p><p><br /></p><p>The man who, before he ever starts, <i>knows</i> he is going to not only finish the race, but WIN it. </p><p><br /></p><p>Or</p><p><br /></p><p>Is it the man who is walking up to the starting line with doubt on whether or not he is even capable of making it to the finish line? </p><p><br /></p><p>I will be the man KNOWING I will finish the race, and even if I dont win, I still finished and hopefully with the preparation going into the race, I will at least place. </p><p><br /></p><p>Without self confidence, you are dead in the water before anything has even begun. At least with some confidence the worst that I can do is fail, but AT LEAST I finished what I started out to do. </p><p><br /></p><p>I have been both men in my life already, and I choose being the self confident, nothing can stop me or hold me back man over the whimpy, &#039;what if&#039; man every single time. </p><p><br /></p><p>I dont want to live my life with a bunch of &#039;what ifs&#039;, I will live my life as I <u>DID</u> this, I may or may not have been successful at it, but at least I can say I did it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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