In the past few months, my blogging has become quite sparse. Time I would have normally spent in front of a keyboard typing about preparedness has been replaced with time in front of a keyboard typing about preparedness....for my second book.
I'm finishing up the manuscript this weekend, and I hope to have it to the editor in my family soon thereafter for a thorough and skeptical review. Fortunately for me, my editor is not a prepper, as I didn't want someone who subscribes to my theories doing the initial edit and review. I intentionally chose someone who I knew wouldn't be bashful about challenging my assertions, lest I suffer from confirmation bias in the manuscript editing process. If we are to be leaders in our cause, we should actively seek intellectual honesty and skeptical analysis of our positions.
The book is yet to be titled. I can tell you that it centers around the need to build a culture of preparedness in America, attempting to answer three central questions:
1. Do we need a culture of preparedness in America?
2. If so, what would that culture look like?
3. And how would be go about creating it?
This isn't a how-to book or a "rush out and buy guns and MREs" admonition that permeates the literature in this genre. I've intentionally avoided much of that in this project, as I really wanted to focus on how we can create a preparedness culture and, hopefully, strengthen our communities as a result.
While the process has been tedious, I can say I've enjoyed it immensely. For years now, I've had a number of ideas and theories about the preparedness movement which I had never explored in depth. Collecting a number of essays I've written over the last two years, researching my ideas and converting them into chapters of a book has really enabled me to articulate for the first time in my life what I think the goal for those of us in the movement should be - namely, preparing ourselves but also creating a culture of preparedness to encourage others to do the same.
I look forward to sharing more details with you as the project moves forward.
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