I realize I am a great 👍 writer

[Coldcomfort]

Man I wish I had more motivation to write consistently. More power to you.

Just make sure the opening hook is good, your writing style is very conversational, which makes for an easy read.

[Jonnybegood]

Easy and interesting. The style was based on William Burroughs.

[Jonnybegood]

@anon17132524 actually read my book before I edited it. And now think it needs more editing.

[DMAdataANDmoodanalysis]

I was homeless for two years when I was 20 in the streets because I was having what the ancient tribesmen would just call visions. I would collect recyclables for money to buy food, and I’d cook beef and rice on a fire. I soon realized how much there were cans and bottles, and I’d be trucking around the city with five grocery carts tied front to back like a train loaded with garbage backs full to the recyclers once a week. I would walk miles up and down the interstates which there are a lot of in the metro, and I would raid the constructions sites which there were a lot of.

I never stopped working this hard. I was going to school from on the street, and I was working a part time job from on the street before I finally moved into a place. I was on the Deans list one year, and then I focused on sports. I never worked as hard as when I was in sports. Some years later on I focused on my own contracting business and after that I focused on investing, economics, anthropology, and now what I call “mindology.” I’m 40 now, and it’s been a solid 80-100 hour work week all that time. I have had a non-existent social life except a girlfriend for five years at one time.

For me writing is thinking. I start with one neat idea about philosophy, minds, anthropology, business, global affairs, logic…, and then in my mind I’m working this thing the way I used to work as a body building athlete which was far more than any coaches would say was healthy, relentlessly working the object down to the premise that justifies its existence.

I always learn from writing.

I never start writing about phenomena, and learn nothing as a result unless I’m doing a basic outline for someone like here now. It’s always I start on a neat path in the undiscovered, and then I wind up on a high place looking back over that stretch that I traveled in amazement. But the point is that I never knew what I wrote down until I had gone through the exercises of writing.

It’s not a creative exercise like with fiction. it’s not an inductive exercise like an autobiography. It’s a deductive exercise as in I’m figuring out things deductively and reductively (reduce) as I write it out. Some people think, and then they forget all their lives what they thought and figured out. I learned that I could write it down, and then I could learn even more by writing it down because writing made me think that much harder and more organized I believe.

But it’s still like the old days working tirelessly and relentlessly beating everything that can possibly be beat out of something for hours upon hours.

I used to write for 14 hours a day only taking breaks when the hunger started disturbing my thoughts. I had to get used to it in the first years as my wrists would be so tired from typing, and I had the calluses from using a pencil in my many notebooks. I don’t have these problems now.

In the beginning I would have two notebooks, and I was very depressed. I often would sleep in because of depression, or rather “lay in” because I wasn’t sleeping just suffering with the scz and about my bad life. I would think and hammer out these thoughts until I figured something out. This felt great to me, and so I wrote them down. While I was writing I’d be figuring out other things too, so I’d wind up writing for hours, and while I wrote in one notebook, I’d have thoughts about other neat concepts, so I’d write those digressions down in my second notebook.

I would take index cards with me everywhere I went. The bus rides are an hour trip at least in the metro. I’d always be pulling out my cards, and writing my ideas on them. I still do something like this today, but I have figured out so much that I don’t write on them as much since I have already written it. I also review my cliff notes on the bus which eases my mind around people.

I had a philosopher literature teacher from a war, NYC police, writer, actor, drummer… That’s why. If I was never scz, I would have never written so much, so I would never have figured out so much.

[anon17132524]

@Jonnybegood

Yup, I bought the original version…still have it. I honestly didn’t buy your book because we ‘know’ each other on this website; I bought your book because it chronicled your life from ages 17-26, and it was written in the style of William S. Burroughs’ Junky (your book is titled Flunky).

The 5-star Amazon review I wrote also had very little to do with us ‘knowing’ each other on this website. I truly enjoyed your book and casual (that’s a compliment) writing style. You took the reader (me) along for the ride.

Were there typos? Yes. Grammatical errors? Yes. But I still think it’s a damn good book. I would be remiss if I didn’t tell you that you have natural talent, so I hope you keep writing books because I see great things in your future.

[Jonnybegood]

Thank you so much kindness/Helenback