After four years, I am almost finished

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I started a book about four years ago, and finished it about two. I am self-publishing it, which takes time, money, energy, and interaction with others.

I am so close to being finished with this project, there’s been quite a lot of challenges. The cover is just about finished, the website is almost done. Next comes the advertising.

I figured I’d share the website, in advance of everything being finished, to get some input from some other people dealing with this. The website is not about the disorder, the book is not about the disorder, so there’s that. It’s a science fiction book, and the website has a blog where I am adding writing so people might be interested. The book is not available for purchase at this time, but… well, I used to post here, and used to post about it, so…

I was diagnosed about ten years ago or so. I’m pretty standard with the medication, this is usually what I let people know from the beginning, because it helps reinforce the idea that medication is needed and also, a person can be pretty normal if they stick to it.

Anything anyone wants to say, I really look forward to it… I’ve spent so long on this, and am almost done, and I just want others to know that you can accomplish things with persistence and perseverance.

thanks

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Sounds awesome! It’s a dream of mine to write a book someday.

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yeah, well, it was a really cool experience. I was hospitalized twice during the writing of it, but it was cool to do it. I’ve been writing for a long time, and I’m glad that people will like it. I’m trying to take this writing space to a place it’s never been! xD

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Back in 1999 I had some auditory hallucinations, on the voice of Bill Clinton voices told me to write a book, but then I did not, but I started my secret intelligence notebooks, maybe one day I publish these notebooks, the problem is that these are paper notebooks and I do not have any energy to transfer these to digital formats. Maybe I never publish these.

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truthfully, i think the thing about writing fiction, or any artwork, as the creator or developer, you would need to be able to produce again. meaning if you wrote something, you can write another thing. I believe this is what differentiates an author, artist, creator, or developer. They use the skills they have to produce work.

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That’s cool you finished your book and am self publishing it. I self published my book but very small sales…I don’t promote it because I did the book anonymously. mistake.

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That’s cool as heck. I’ve spoken in front of a few groups about the platform and the book, I’m trying to generate some interest from a mental health awareness standpoint, in the fact that I am open about the disorder, but the fiction is just influenced by, and not literature on the disorder in any real way. I figure it’s better to try and do just the actual work, writing and creating interesting or unique writing and stories, and schizophrenia be damned outside of any real interesting addition that it might provide.

I think it’s possible, with modern medication, to self-publish and publish other works of your own and one’s that belong to other people. I believe, truthfully, that the medication and the schizophrenia influence the creativity, but in a way that’s at least unique, seeing as how the disorder is unique to each individual.

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I self published my book too but doubt I could write another one. It was a lucky week of 12 hours of writing per day!

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I don’t know, the website is put together at this point, before the initial release of the book, so that I can fill out these blog posts, and offer writing in a style that appeals to, hopefully, a persons sense of interest and wow things can really be this way.

I’m trying to take the box home, write a label on it, then fill the box with enough plastic hangers so it starts to break, so that I could just write something else that did the job. I think, when people read, they are somewhat making a decision of acceptance, ok, I’ll let this into my head, and entertain these ideas, and in exchange, I’ll gather something from it.

You know? Each blog post is like another shirt in the closet, you can pick one and wear it, or flip through, however. Maybe it’s just a large box of hats.

I can’t imagine why people would want to wear different hats all the time, but hey, I’m sure someone had the bright idea to have a hat party and get all these different hats together and start wearing them. It’s not important that someone wins the hat party, like in America, the importance is attending the hat party, and showing your best.

So, regardless, I just keep writing. I’d like to write again.

Possibly, in eternity, we get to write for awhile. I don’t quite understand things that could stop and change, given an infinite timeline, but that’s a subject of great debate. Do you just keep getting better and better, and it never ends? That’s a question for the angels. Be that as it may, something interesting deserves to be said.