I became interested in this question about a dozen years ago. During that time I spent hundreds of hours reading eastern philosophy, zen, Theravada Buddhism, meditation, and general philosophy books from the west. Answers to, “What is the point of life?” – in my best estimation, come in two flavors. 1. What is the point [...]
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Archive | March, 2010
What’s Your Shit:Gold Ratio?
Posted on 26 March 2010.
Advice to Writers recently had a post about Hemingway claiming to ‘try’ to throw away 90 pages of shit writing to 1 page of masterpiece. His shit:gold ratio is a claimed 90:1. I was wondering what mine works out to. I think I must have something like 3:1 because in the course of rewrites and [...]
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Jesus Did I Edit “Cleansed”
Posted on 26 March 2010.
That’s not a question. I edited the hell outta this book last night – flying through 45 pages in 2 hours. Did you ever hear someone tell you that it’s best to write something and then go have a look at it later? I mean WAY later? I wrote Cleansed in 2007. I shopped it [...]
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Write a Book with Speech to Text – EASY!
Posted on 10 March 2010.
For those of you considering writing a book you’re probably dreading typing 40-100,000 words of text and destroying your hands. I know when I write a book I usually just sit and bang it out until I’ve got the draft finished. That might take a week or four weeks. What if you could make it [...]
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