turn my blog into a book

I just want to collect all my old entries from Dead Journal, Live Journal, and wherever else into a book, then print myself a copy. It was my high school version of keeping a journal, and there isn’t a single journal I’ve lost or trashed.

I’ll be using Blurb to do this. I highly recommend them.

Once I have the book(s) in my hand, I will be deleting all my old journal entries from the Internet. Forever.

I would love to turn my blog into a book. I keep a blog on Yahoo 360, and they chose it as interesting some time ago. I have what basically amounts to a copy of it on Multiply.com and on each site, I have a lot of friends and I get a lot of positive feedback.
How do I turn it into a book??

It’s been my dream to publish a book. I’d like to publish my blog, HOME OF THE TALKING FINGERS ON THE WEBinto a book. Deadline: A year from now

I feel literally sick. Today I finally printed out four blog entries. “My Bath”, “Super-Hero”, “The Day We Ran Away” and “A Day by the Seaside”. I had to pull them from the blog and put them in Word. Brush up the prose a bit so it could stand alone from the blog.

Then I wrote a cover letter to the publisher I’ve chosen for my first litmus test. It’s a publisher I love. Local. So I write this letter and then I start to feel stupid. I go over and over the letter and I just feel dumb. It’s one page long, follows most of the rules of a Query Letter and yet, I still worry obsessively.

I’ve been published before (short stories, magazine articles), so this isn’t TOTALLY new territory for me. Why I am so afraid? Why I am filled with alarming self-loathing? That someone will read this and validate my own feelings of worthlessness? I have to do this. No matter the outcome, I have to do it.

I can’t wake up 20 years from now in a cold sweat realizing I never took chances because I was afraid of being called stupid. I will ASPIRE to being called “stupid” today. That will be my goal.

Procrastination. Fear. I suppose I could unravel all of the unproductive motives I have for not getting on this. But I would still be here. Stalled.

Git busy. I saw one of those alarming “git ‘er done” bumper stickers the other day. Maybe I should affix one to my forehead.

(The photo is of a staring contest. Monkey won.)

I’ve done so little about this, it’s fairly pathetic. I suppose it should be filed under “procrastination is a demon”.

I keep hemming and hawing. Wondering if I can turn this into a children’s book when the blog is not geared towards children at all. But kids love Monkey. I just need to sit down, print out some of the better posts, show it to some friends in publishing and get some solid advice. How hard is that?

Boot meet butt.