It really helps to get that the book you are writing is not your book. It is THE book... It is A book... It is the book of your Bright Principles, the book of your Pearl, the book of your Archetypal Lineage. It is the book that Genius writes. You are the mediator. You move the pen and punch the keys, but pen-pushing and key-pounding works best when you are not there. Learn cool ways to get out of the way so that Flow can write the book. (WARNING: See HINT #13)

Get out of their way.

Your job is to make the space and time to write, five days each week, at least five or six hours each day.

Put your butt in the chair.

Diminish distractions, like washing dishes, people running through the space trying to get your attention, barking dogs, radio, kids...

Type.

Type first, ask questions later.

Keep typing.

If you get ideas for doing other things, finishing things, changing things... write them on a note pad... DO NOT DO THEM NOW.

Keep writing.

Stretch once every hour or two for 5 minutes.

Drink lots of water.

Then the Bright Principles can provide their Value through your fingers.

Without your fingers typing or writing away, the Bright Principles are stuck. The Bright Principles do not have fingers.

The Table Of Contents is your adventure journey outline. It is the thoughtmap of the territory of the book.

Reading through the Table Of Contents gives you the sense if the journey is a complete journey, or if you are being timid or stingy with what the book gives the reader.

You will not know what is in each Chapter when you write the Table Of Contents because those details will emerge in the writing journey. But if the gaps are too big or too small, if there are things missing or things repeated, the Table Of Contents will tell you.

The pain and regret of losing download material for your book is devastatingly great. This is one pain you can avoid by consciously choosing another pain, namely, the pain of neurotically carrying around your Beep! Book and pen and interrupting whatever is happening in the current space to shift into the other space of you making whatever notes you need to in order to be assured that you can find your way back to the space where the extraordinary clarity is occurring to you now. With your Beep! Book you can capture jewels from rare, momentary, spaces, and alchemically transform them into words and graphics so others can benefit from your ability to make 5-Body Intimacy Journeys.

Once you have the opening and the closing, the rest is a matter of filling in the blanks in between. Having the wrap-up 'in the can' (to use film-making terminology...) helps keep the middle on track because you know where you are going.

As the middle fills in you may need to add some more details to the beginning to introduce characters, set scenes, build the context for the rest of the book.

When is the book done?

Actually, if you have the beginning and the ending it is already done. Filling in the middle is simply about making the book better.

When you write your 'best secret stuff' in the first 3 chapters, then you make room for more 'best secret stuff' to emerge in later chapters! 

Some book writers, far too many in my opinion, save their best secret stuff for the last chapter in the book, as if there were a limited amount of best secret stuff!!! How absurd!!!

If you save your best secret stuff for the last chapter then you do not have space in the book to learn more about what you love to learn about. You do not get to find out what you did not know that you did not know about while writing the further chapters.

The purpose of writing the book is not to write about what you already know about. It is to establish the real necessity - e.g. the blank pages in unwritten chapters - so that you get to go on the transformational exploratory journey of deepening the work while writing about the coolest stuff there is. You discover more of the coolest stuff there is through writing the book.

Creating graphics means drawing out detailed new Thoughtmaps, making clear photos, writing lists or process steps in graphically separate boxes, etc.

Sherlock Holmes is right... eating slows you down.

There is a space of time between no longer feeling 'full' and not yet feeling like you are 'starving' that is the writer's ecstasy time. Create it and use it as often as possible. The book and The Muse will be happy that you do this.

Right now it is already 15:21 and I did not turn on my email or Telegram or messages yet. I know I am remiss. Michael Poertner is waiting for my reply to his answer to my request to talk to him... and I did not give it to him yet... But if I did that I would not be writing these words in this particular hint about writing the book, and I really want you to write the book. Sorry Michael...

This HINT should be unnecessary to write as one would assume it is included in the the previous HINT about not turning on your email or messaging until after 3pm... and... well... humans are complexly defended Box mechanisms... cleverly able to fool even ourselves (or perhaps, especially ourselves...) in order to keep us surviving, which means to keep us the same as we have always been, because whatever that way it, it has allowed us to survive.

I mean, what if... what if your book is wildly successful? What if your book goes viral? It has happened before. Most times it is unpredicted. Twelve publishers rejected J. K. Rowling's manuscript for the first Harry Potter story.

I am not saying your objective is to write a million copy bestseller... who would those readers be?

The dangerous question here is, how will you deal with your ego or tolerate people's projections if the book you write becomes famous?

Can you actually hold the new form your Being would have if you write a successful book?

You would become visible.

People might love you, or hate you.

People might make assumptions about you and call you ugly names like radical, or extremist. You might get put on the government's black list, those who should first be rounded up and imprisoned or executed. Maybe you don't want all that attention...

Maybe it is better to hide out and stay invisible... sabotage your own book writing sessions.... make appointments before 3pm.

The book will not be written if your physical body degrades. Stand up.

Play Luis Armstong's Heebie Jeebies song (2:52 minutes).

Slap your knee hard with both hands at the same time.

Then slap the other knee, same way, hard.

This stimulates micro-circulation.

Micro-circulation increase forces your oxygenated blood through tiny capillaries to bring in nutrients and take away wastes from your cells. It rejuvenates your tissues.

Then slap your sides, arms, shoulders, lower back, chest, face, and the top of your head.

Then jump up and down 25 times, breathing out hard with each landing.

You just did the Heebie Jeebies. See you back here in one hour.

Now write.

What if you write really great stuff and then die of lung cancer or an automobile accident or choking to death on your own vomit? Aren't there artists and writers you have loved that have died too early, too young? Don't do that to your people. You owe it to them to live long enough to keep exploring and write the next book...

Oh... I didn't tell you about the next book? Forget I said this.

Just skip smoking, drugs, alcohol, and pot. Figure out other ways to get out of your mind and into being the space through which the Bright Principles and Shadow Principles and your Pearl and your Archetypal Lineage can write the book.

Besides the pain in your ass from sitting so long in one position, besides the tired eyes and cramped fingers, besides the headaches, nausea, fevers, or inspired sleeplessness you might get from going through the Phoenix Process and Liquid States to write what you need to write that has never been said before, there are additional book writer pains. For example:

1. The fear of being burned at the stake (again) for taking a stand for what you need to say even if it contradicts common knowledge, challenges SHIT thoughtware, reveals Zombie agendas, or confronts Gremlins at work.
2. The pain of experiencing the impossibility of saying everything all at once because you are restricted to placing strings of little figures one-after-the-other in a line to be read by other people and shaped into words and sentences which can be understood to have meaning. Writing is sequential. Understanding is holistic. 
3. The pain that writing is slower than reading. "Why can't we just have a webinar and talk about it?" Because the webinar will end and you can only talk with twenty people or so. A book does not end. A book is an artifact. You are making an artifact, a map of stepping-stone words and images, and you are building this artifact inside of a person's Being. You are planting transformational seeds in garden soil made of spirit but  contaminated with stones of deception. 
4. The pain that the vision of the book is whole, but the bridge to the vision needs to be built one step after another. Which step comes first?Writing is bridge-building. As a writer you are designing a journey for the reader to make.
5. The pain of needing to write everything before you can write something. You need to build the context into the reader so they have a way to understand what you really want to say, and yet the context is holographic. Every word already includes all the words. Is is painful that your words are piecemeal even if the impact of the journey fits together into one complete and beautiful whole. 
6. As a writer you do not know the terrible characteristics of the edge of the reader's awareness. Maybe the reader is simpler than you. Maybe the reader is more complex than you. Maybe the reader is a blue brain and you are writing in red brain language. Maybe the reader is wounded and stuck at places that are different from where you are wounded and stuck. You can only authoritatively write about yourself. Who can relate to that? You will never know until you write. 

As the book writer you may be the alchemist, but the alchemist is always in the alchemical process or it is not alchemy. This is how alchemy works.

Being personally included in the alchemical process is a sacrifice you make in order to produce results in the book-writing profession. If you are not willing to make this sacrifice, alchemy won't work for you.

The alchemical process of writing transforms something nonmaterial into something material. You are calling down living vibrant Possibility, distinctions, memes, and storyworlds out of nowhere-specific and trapping them into somewhere-specific.

This kind of alchemy is focused hard work demanding your complete attention. Therefore, successful book writing depends on you being fit in numerous ways, for example:

1. Being Centered, Grounded, Bubbled as a self-contained journeying vessel.
2. Able to create, hold, and navigate energetic space.
3. Be able to find your through the 3 Worlds on the map of the Great Labyrinth of Spaces.
4. Be able to endure the intensity of 5 Body Liquid States, the 9 Gaps, Archetypal Love, and Presence.
5. Keeping your Sword Of Clarity at the throats of demons, even at the bar, even at your parents' house, even at home with the husband and kids, even in bed.
6. Being able to say, "No!" and, "Stop!"
7. Being able to land distinctions in a space to set unusually clear Context, because distinctions are more powerful than boundaries.
8. Being able to minimize NOW.
9. Being reconnected to your Imagination, passion, intuition, and what is wanted and needed. 
10. Looking at what you are looking with so you can see why you are seeing what you are seeing, etc.

You are capturing etheric ideas, constructs, conversations and so on, out of the fluidic planes and bringing them into the rigid material solid world as 'ink on paper'.

Yes... it is true... this these words here are not ink on paper. They are shadows on a screen. Yet there are photons of different colors physically impacting the rods and cones of your retinas triggering them enought to send electrical impulses along your nerves into your brain, changing the chemical patterns in your neurons enough for you to think and understand new possibilities to empower your writing.

I repeat, book writing is alchemy. Make yourself fit as an alchemist.

(See the WRITE FIERCELY notes below.)

This is a magical hint. Don't worry if it does not make sense to you at first. It has to do with Doorways. I suggest that it will help build the relevant matrix in your Being if you diligently study and dive deeper-and-deeper into the Context, Thoughtware, Distinctions, Your Attention, Hold Space, Navigate Space, and Doorways websites, doing the EXPERIMENTS (and recording your Matrix Points at StartOver.xyz). The space determines what is Possible. A Doorway is an entrance to a different Space. Each Space offers a unique combination of context, thoughtware, distinctions, and Possibilities. 'Leaning on a Doorway' starts by finding a useful Doorway, getting up close to the Doorway, then splitting Your Attention in order to keep a part of your Being's attention pressing on a Doorway like a hungry dog puts his attention on the steak on a diner's plate. You lean on the Doorway day or night, 24/7/365, waiting attentively. You have no guarantee about what is going to happen. The only guarantees you have are that if you leave the Doorway you might never find that exact Doorway again, and if you are not there with part of your Being leaning on the Doorway then if the Doorway does open you won't be there to fall through into the new space, and that Doorway might never open again. The cool thing is that if you are leaning on the Doorway, then even if you are sleeping when the Doorway opens, you fall through into the new space.

That is the problem with self-published books. There is no radically-honest expertly-skilled editor involved.

Such an editor is hard to find.

But worth it, in the end.

Having written some books before, and being in the process of writing (more than one) book right now myself, I share from my experience that I do various kinds of writing at the same time as I am writing the book. I do not forcibly limit myself to only do book writing.

What I have found is that each of the various kinds of writing I am doing feed each other. For example, what I am writing here now in this personal message to a fellow writer, I copy pasted into this section of this website as a hint that I have never thought to share before.

I also write S.P.A.R.K.s (two new ones this week), website context and experiments for StartOver.xyz, post cards to my two daughters in France, my own articles, monthly PM News and GM News, plus I check the English in some other people's articles, etc.
All I am saying is that if you find that your book writing is getting stale or slowed down or wearisome or blurry, writing Experiments for StartOver.xyz can be a fabulous way to juice up your Being in a way that feeds your book writing. I encourage you not to close the Experiment writing door and put a lock on all other writing with a "No!" just because you decided you are writing a book. Back off from other writing for as long as you want, and also do it again when you want.