Its done! I have finished the first draft of The Nidhi Kapoor Story.
What? Did you ask what is The Nidhi Kapoor Story? Are you living under a rock or something?
I can talk about excitement, exhilaration, fear, butterflies in the stomach, emptiness and all that. But let me park those because for the time being, I want to focus on the tasks at hand first.
This proximity to the finish line means that I need to find answers to a few very important questions that would determine the fate of the book. And my future as a full-time writer.
Here is an indicative list of things that need done. Pronto.
- Find an editor. Someone to painstakingly go through the first draft, find all the mistakes that I’ve made. Mistakes in terms of plot, grammar, sentence formation, structure etc.
- Find a designer. To help me make marketing collaterals and design other miscellaneous things. Yes, I have asked everyone who has the word “design” in their bio. And everyone has refused so far. I don’t know why. I don’t know what am doing wrong here. Help!!
- Find a publisher. Or an agent. Someone who know how this “industry” works. Someone who could help the book see the light of the day.
- Create a marketing plan. I may claim to be an aware marketeer, but I need to put the plan on paper. And more importantly, execute it.
All this, under the constrains enforced by joblessness and limited “financial leverage”.
Not to mention that I am on a constant lookout for the next career opportunity, after all, the money that I had saved all this while, is about to run out. Help me? This is my LinkedIn profile.
God? Tooth fairy? Bhagwan? Jezus? Anyone? Please?