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The fact that we now had a working autopilot meant that I didn’t have to sit by the helm all the time on my bridge watches. This made me come up with an idea to use my time doing something better than just sit still and quite all the time. It was open water and almost no traffic. I could just stick my head up and scan the horizon and check the instrument every now and then. I was going to start writing something new. Try to make something which I would be able to complete. I had a look out that would help me on the bridge, so I was spending some time by the computer  now doing some office work for the bridge anyway. But not only that. During the night shifts I was also writing on this completely new book project. I felt like I wanted to make a small and simple ebook about something which I knew. I needed to stay creative. I need to have a little side project which keeps me motivated. Something to stimulate my mind with. The book I have been writing on for years now started to feel a little bit too complex and I felt like I wanted to have a break from that one now and try to make something smaller which I would be able to complete. Something more simple which I wont be over working. Just something to publish, which could work as a little appetizer to my future big book project. This time I wasn’t mainly motivated by the writing process itself. That I just wanted to keep to the easiest. I wasn’t bothered about the content. I didn’t even know what I wanted to write. I was mostly looking forward to the designing process and the marketing. All this things around making a book. Just to learn how that would be like. So I decided to start writing a little “How to- book”. Something small. That must be something among the most simple as there is to write, I felt like. Seems like easy to write since it is something very definite. Something that most people could read also. I wanted to keep it short, so people wont hesitate reading it because of its length. Maybe 20,30, 40, 50 pages or whatever. It had to be about something which I know something about, of course. So I figured I should be writing about traveling. That is something which I have been doing a fair bit of. I mean if I am going to write a “How to- book”. Then it better be about something that I know. But I don’t want it to be anything special really. Nothing to serious, just something just for fun you know. This ebook is still under construction but will be coming out soon. And it will be available on amazon and on this website to buy and download. That is the plan at least. Let’s see how it goes. It is my first time doing something like this but I am excited about it.
Anyways, so I started to write there on the bridge a little by little during every night shift. My look out were altering between making tea for us and looking out the windows for other boats as he was zipping on it. I was zipping on it as I started to line up what the book should include by writing a list, which came to be like an index or a content list that stats all the different chapters of the book. And it is literally a manual about how to travel. I go through what traveling is, stating with some background history about traveling. Going through different styles of traveling. Different ways of transport you can use as you are traveling. What to bring depending on what kind of travel you are doing, as well as I would include some anecdotes from my own travels. The topic is pretty wide and spread out so I have like a red line throughout the book that ‘life is a journey’. So it is not a manual that states that this is the way of doing it. It is more a book about how I have been traveling and my experiences and thoughts about it.
After a few days I started to realize how important the content actually is. Of course it is. That is what is the book. And if this is going to be my debut and work as an appetizer for my next, much bigger project. Then it definitely needs to be good. But on the other hand I can’t be putting to much pressure on myself, and I can’t let myself get stuck in the process of keeping on improving bits on it forever. As I said. I just need to keep it simple and get it out there. We will see how it goes. It is still in progress. But I must say that it feels great to be doing something creative. I mean to create something on my own which will exist long term after it’s finished. And I am doing it as I am traveling over the seas. I am traveling creative. Peace.
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