you simply must begin

This is the challenge going around on Facebook this week:

 

List fifteen books that changed your

life/soul/heart.

 

I wish it had asked for fifteen authors who changed my life/soul/heart because when I read a book that has a profound influence on me, I want to know everything about the author. Mostly, though, I want to know how they learned to write something so powerful, or so true, or so heart-breaking, or so funny. I want to know if I can do it, too.

 

This challenged me to think about fifteen books I would like to write:

 

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1. A scathing critique of the American medical system--the corporate greed, the loss of physician autonomy/authority, the wiles of the pharmaceutical industry...don't get me started.
2. A reflection on faith titled, "Beyond Belief." This will probably be my next project.
3. A memoir of the childhood illness my brother and I shared...that led me into the study of medicine, but propelled my brother into a lifelong quest for healing, titled "The Telling Time."
4. An inspirational book based on this blog--the idea that it's never too late to "begin again."
5. A reflection on the lighter side of medicine...the incidents that made it all bearable.
6. A piece about the "joys of country living."
7. A Christmas tale, something to do with a mean old man and the furry creatures who soften his heart, as furry creatures are wont to do...
8. A book of my short stories.
9. A book of essays on the practice of medicine.
10. A book of poetry.
11. A study of patients I have known and what I have learned from them.
12.  A book for misfits, like myself.

And, the three novels that are collecting dust on my desk and need revision:

1. "The Bandaged Place" about a physician who is the target of medical fraud by trusted colleague.
2. "Torched" about a physician who weeds out a sex tourism operation at a safari resort in Africa.
3. My NaNoWriMo project, "Touchpoints" about an international abduction and a mother's quest to save her daughter.

Do you have a book simmering inside that need to be written?

 

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A picture that needs to be painted? A song you need to sing?

 

Then you simply must...



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"The scariest moment is always

just before you start."

--Stephen King--

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What could be easier?

jan