Today’s blog is about ‘building a book’.  Yes, 'building!  The definition of build according to dictionary.com includes four entries.  Three of these entires include:  i) “to construct by assembling and joining parts or materials”, ii) "to establish, increase or strengthen” and iii) “to mold, form or create”. EndorphinGirl™ thinks all three are appropriate to support the idea of ‘building a book’.

EndorphinGirl™  has never 'built' a book before nor even tried.  And frankly has not done any research on how to put the pieces of a book together, but she may have some ideas. Well at least ideas of her own anyway.  So her first step will be to create the foundation and then take into account the ‘build’ definitions above.  As you may guess, the foundation is endorphin-ness. 

While her method might be a bit different she has a head start because she already has the title.  Bloggees, you may have noticed it in an earlier blog “Zen and the Art of Endorphin Fortitude”.  So you can start to see the connection between why EndorphinGirl™ shares in her blog her plans to write a book ... given what the book might be about!   (Come to think of it on that same topic, she just thought of another potential title, "EndorphinGirl™ and the Pumping Iron Tattoo". - hmm well maybe not!)

So now that the title is set, using a combined ‘build-a-book’ and top-down approach EndorphinGirl™ will construct the pieces by first assembling the chapters and joining other relevant parts, such as the words!  Aha!  She will then strengthen her story as her ideas hopefully proliferate.  And then continuously ‘mold, form and create’ the story! 

Okay you may think this sounds like ‘build a bear’, but it’s not!  It really is 'build a book'.  Really, truly!  So kindly read on to preview the chapter titles or as EndorphinGirl™ chooses to call it the frame of the book.  You see in this top-down approach to building a book, the frame or chapters are the next piece to be assembled.  So only a few dozen or so more lines to read on to preview the 'frame'!  

And take note that since EndorphinGirl™ is now a blogger, and enjoys this very much, she is not putting a time frame on when el booko might be completed.  It may take an hour, a week, a month, a year, a decade, a lifetime.  But who is counting!  At this blogging moment she has no clue how long it will take.  So simply consider that today's blog is a start to the book aspiration, and please don’t expect the book in its entirety anytime soon.  Just sayin!

Title: “Zen and the Art of Endorphin Fortitude”

Chapter 1 – ‘On the slopes’

Chapter 2 – ‘sTrEtcH’

Chapter 3 – ‘On board’

Chapter 4 – ‘In the zone’

Chapter 5 – ‘The importance of being durable’

Chapter 6 – ‘Make it count’

Chapter 7 – ‘Off the slopes’

Chapter 8 – Endorphed!

So there you have it using the ‘build-a-book’ top-down approach.  So far the title of the book and chapters have been 'built'.  Stay tuned to see what ‘molds, forms and creates’ under the chapter covers!  Thanks for reading!

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In today’s picture, EndorphinGirl ™ has a few snowballs in hand!  In honor of the snow!  Picture compliments of EndorphinGirl™’s son!

Keep on endorphin’!

EndorphinGirl™

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