Writing a book

I'm terrible at creative writing and wouldn't know where to begin, I know I'm terrible at writing dialogue. I was always bad at it even at school, but I've found I can write non fiction, I'm in a stalled phase of writing a book on some of the forgotten or ignored aspects of medieval history, I've stalled because it's summer and my energy is outside in the garden rather than inside studying, I think study is a winter passtime. I don't know if my book will ever be finished, let alone published, but then I'd doing it for me, for pleasure, rather than for outside validation. I've learned not to expect outside validation, quite the opposite in fact, when I told some friends I was met with silence before they started talking about something else. I realised I'd created an invisible elephant in the room, so unless I end up on telly because of it, I think it will remain an unmentionable subject.

Lol I get what you mean about summer. I recall those stuffy classrooms and sweaty kids, waiting for the term to end.

I too am doing it for me. I want satisfaction from it, maybe a little clarity of thought. I've also mentioned it to people in the past and been met with disinterest, so I don't say anything now (apart from here obvs). And I don't know about sending it into the wider world. I'll do it anyway, just for me, then take it from there.

I'm just setting the framework up at the minute. I write little phrases down in a small book which I may or may not use.

Thanks for your response. Hope you get your history book finished. 

Lol I get what you mean about summer. I recall those stuffy classrooms and sweaty kids, waiting for the term to end.

I too am doing it for me. I want satisfaction from it, maybe a little clarity of thought. I've also mentioned it to people in the past and been met with disinterest, so I don't say anything now (apart from here obvs). And I don't know about sending it into the wider world. I'll do it anyway, just for me, then take it from there.

I'm just setting the framework up at the minute. I write little phrases down in a small book which I may or may not use.

Thanks for your response. Hope you get your history book finished. 

Sounds good. I need to prep mine a bit better. It's all in bits, written in notebooks, on A4 paper and some stuff on a laptop and this phone.

It's a bit like assembling a jigsaw, which us appropriate I guess.

I've got a note book with chapter headings sectioned off, a bibliography at the back and notes for the chapters from various other books that I shall cite in the course of mine.