Step 12: Eureka!/Failure!

Something didn't quite sit right with me about that last post -- my linking to a video. What's wrong, I thought, concerned and vexed.

Mystery!

Then it hit me while I was commuting: You can't put a video in a book! Fuck!

See, the whole reason that publishers are snapping up these blog-books is that they're already written. Stuff like "Stuff White People Like", for example. They just printed the blog! Bingo bango! It's easy and cheap!

SO IF I WANT A BOOK DEAL, I CAN'T WRITE ANYTHING THAT CAN'T BE PRINTED! NO VIDEOS, NO LINKS, NO 3-D!

Thank God, I have a rule, I can wrap it around me like a treasured Army blanket. I was getting scared there for a second, but I'm figuring it out.

NOTE: I was discussing the video thing with an offline friend and we briefly proposed the idea of integrated flipbooks within the book, but that's just insane. Unless the publisher who gives me a book deal is down with the idea, in which case I am pro-flipbook.