Lemons Book (Page 3 of 9)

Teams can write what they want, any way they want. I wrote ours up as a "little engine that could" type story, about an Opel that wants t be a Corvette and thinks success in Lemons will help it achieve that. Another team presented themselves as Chicago gangsters. For one team the story was more personal and told how he found his racing home in Lemons.

This wasn't meant to be just a reference resource, like the Lemons wiki, which is an excellent project BTW, although short team bios are welcome as well.

As for the writing itself, don't think that just because you are not a real writer (I'm not.) that you can't tell your story. It's like in Lemons, if your heap can complete a lap, it is a race car. Likewise, if you can get your point across, you are a writer. Of course, getting paid to do either is another mater. Still, if this is something that is not in your current skill set, if you still need help, call me or just send me the raw bits you have and we can work together to get your story told.

The thing about this for me, figuring I'll be a reader, too, is that I have a fair idea of what some of the west coast teams are about, but not really. That drive home from The Ridge with Spank, for instance, reminded me how little I knew about familiar faces and teams. And of course I have no idea what the teams in other regions are about, except SpeedyCop , and I am sure there is a lot more to his story than we know..

As for the official Lemons book, with Phil's and Jay's experience in writing and of course in Lemons that could be a fantastic book. They know and were part of so many stories that on one hand the job of writing that book would seem easy, so much material to work with, and on the other hand daunting, because they have so much material to work with.

Mike

Calendars, so they can plan well in advance and make it to all of our races.

There are still 10 days left in National Novel Writing Month... 50K words is the goal.... get typin'!

I think I finally figured out what I want to write now I just have to sit down and do it, and find pictures, lots and lots of pictures because people really don't care about words, just looking at pictures.

Here's the index, so far - http://www.kstreetstudio.com/files/24HO … -Index.pdf

Interesting how certain words are used much more frequently than others.

And here's the table of contents, so far - http://www.kstreetstudio.com/files/24HO … ntents.pdf

Not all of those teams have sent something in, but some have promised/are working on it/really ought to.

I'll try to bring a printed version of whatever I have done before the Sonoma race.

Thanks.

Rough text is OK. I'll fix what I see and we'll send it back and forth until it is all good.

Mike

I'd say "Not in it to win it."

The Index of Effluency

"Writing isn't just for Rich Idiots, it's for ALL idiots"

Or use "Racing" in place of Writing. Although if I were Jay, I'd argue that I own that phrase. But I'd also argue that Index of Effluency were also his but apparently he either allowed it or didn't go after the guy. yet.

"Auto Racing for the [or by the] Unwashed Masses" or some variant.

"The Unwashed Masses and their Racing Machines"

"When life gives you Lemons, go racing!"

Fascinating.  Just goes to show what a fantastic suggestion it was.

How about "The Spirit of Lemons"?  Speedy probably wouldn't mind supplying the cover photo.

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