Getting Started
So… What is this thing, what are we doing, and how are we getting started?
The overall plan is that Jwalant, who knows all the good stuff, will essentially be the content advisor and editor. He has a huge rolodex of great people to talk to, many of whom are old friends and relations. If he and the people he knows can’t explain the Nepali trekking industry to you, it can’t be explained. He is already in the process of putting an interview list together, and helping me put the basic outline for the book together.
I (Chris), on the other hand, will do the bulk of the actual writing and editing. While I’ve never written a book before, I’ve been a content writer for games for decades, and in the last year alone have written over 250k words of game text. I’m terribly worried that this will be very different, but hey, you gotta start somewhere.
The Game Plan So Far…
- Put together a basic outline of the main themes we want to cover in the book.
- Build an interview list of key people we want to talk to.
- I’ll fly down to Nepal in the late winter/early spring dead season, and work in Kathmandu for an extended period. This will allow both of us to continue our day jobs while interviewing people, researching, and collaborating.
- I’ll bring all my notes and things back to Japan, and complete the rough draft over the summer.
- We’ll edit and improve over the autumn through online collaboration.
- Final version of the book done by Christmas, 2022.
That’s the plan anyway. I’m reasonably certain we’ll look back at that and laugh in nine months or so… But you have to start with some kind of plan, and that’s a plan.
Along the way, we’ll use this blog (and various social media) to keep people up to date on how the project is progressing. Hopefully by the end of the year, we’ll have built a small audience who can support us on launch and help us bring the story of Trekking in Nepal to MILLIONS of people.
Well… Maybe thousands.
Hundreds?
We’ll see.