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          WRITE THE BOOK

           

           

        • Write The Book

          A book is an alchemical object that causes a change in the design of the human morphogenetic field merely from its physical existence.

           

          The book gets printed and it lasts longer than you do.

           

          It goes places you never went.

           

          It changes people you never met.

           

          The idea is to write THE book that needs to be written through you, not that you are writing YOUR book. Forget that. Just write the book.

           

          Nobody can write the book for you.

           

          On the other hand, nobody can stop you from explaining how you became an edgeworker, how you serve as a Possibilitator, or how anyone can experience 5-Body Intimacy through escaping the capitalist patriarchal empire, and discovering archearchy while inventing it.

           

          Have you ever received anything of value from another author?

           

          Guess what... it's payback time!

           

          You can't write? Duh! That's because you went to school!

           

          Time to quit school and come play in the domains of alchemy.

           

          Life is short. Do the things that matter most. Have as much Fun as you can.

           

          Leave a few clues so others can find the path you are taking.

           

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        • Impactful Writing Is Possible...How To Write A Book

          I (Clinton Callahan) offer you my best book-writing hints below. I know that you don't need them. Almost no one offered me book-writing hints. I went ahead and wrote books anyway.

          I know these hints are important to me. They are hard-earned nuggets of gold. I don't know that if someone offered me such nuggets it would have helped me. That doesn't matter to me. What matters to me is that you write the book.

          Why does it matter to me that you write the book? Because the most important item on my global transformation agenda is upgrading human thoughtware. Without that, we are doomed. The old thoughtware can only create the same old results.

          Humans are using terribly outdated, crippled, disgraceful, ecocidal thoughtware... Standard Human Intelligence Thoughtware (S.H.I.T.)

          The Rule of Law of modern culture is exterminating life on Earth at the fastest possible rate - except if the Sun supernovas or the Earth receives a direct hit from a planet-killing asteroid.

          Anyone following modern culture's Rule Of Law as if it is real or somehow 'true' is criminally insane. Anyone defending modern culture's Rule Of Law has already forfeited their life.

          So what? So your job as a writer is to upgrade your own thoughtware enough to invent next culture - archearchy - or else, probably sooner than anyone imagines, there won't be anyone around to read your book.

          Each of us lives in a unique world, both inside and outside of us, different past, different context, different thoughtware, different gameworlds, different purposes both conscious and unconscious. This gives us ten to the Nth workable approaches to book writing.

          The following hints come from my own experience. I share the hints with you as doorways. Behind that rock is a doorway. Talk to that demon... she is a doorway. This magic spell? Yes, it's a doorway.

          Do all doorways work for book writing? Yes... (he says tentatively), but... maybe not for you.

          Who knows? There is only one way to find out. Write the book.

          Einstein's 'Gedankenexperiments' (thought experiments) do not work for writing due to the massive internal and external forces involved. Writing is alchemical transformation. Writing produces real results in the physical world.

          Writing depends on Genius, Bright Principles, Shadow Purposes, the Muse, your Commitment, your daring... and E.C.C.O. What am I saying?

          Write.

          Eventually one of the doorways you fall through will explain dazzling everything to you, I am sure of it.

          How? I don't know. It is a mystery.

           
          As Charles Bukowsky puts it:

          air and light and time and space

          '- you know, I've either had a family, a job, something
          has always been in the
          way
          but now
          I've sold my house, I've found this
          place, a large studio, you should see the space and
          the light.
          for the first time in my life I'm going to have a place and
          the time to
          create.'
          no baby, if you're going to create
          you're going to create whether you work
          16 hours a day in a coal mine
          or
          you're going to create in a small room with 3 children
          while you're on
          welfare,
          you're going to create with part of your mind and your
          body blown
          away,
          you're going to create blind
          crippled
          demented,
          you're going to create with a cat crawling up your
          back while
          the whole city trembles in earthquakes, bombardment,
          flood and fire.
          baby, air and light and time and space
          have nothing to do with it
          and don't create anything
          except maybe a longer life to find
          new excuses
          for.

          1

          IT IS NOT YOUR BOOK

          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)

          2

          LET YOUR BRIGHT PRINCIPLES DO THE WRITING

          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.

          3

          START WITH AND KEEP REVISING YOUR TABLE OF CONTENTS

          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.

          4

          ALWAYS HAVE YOUR Beep! Book WITH YOU AND WRITE DOWN EVERY HINT THAT COMES NO MATTER HOW INCONVENIENT IT IS AT THE MOMENT

          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.

          5

          WRITE THE FIRST AND LAST CHAPTERS FIRST

          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.

          6

          WRITE YOUR BEST SECRET STUFF IN THE FIRST 3 CHAPTERS - DO NOT BETRAY YOUR READERS BY CUTTING OFF THE FLOW OF JEWELS BECAUSE OF YOUR OWN FEAR OF ANNIHILATION

          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.

          7

          USE HALF YOUR TIME FOR GRAPHICS

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

          8

          WRITE FIRST THING IN THE MORNING - EAT LATER ONLY WHEN YOU ARE REALLY HUNGRY

          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.

          9

          DO NOT TURN ON YOUR EMAIL OR INSTAGRAM AND DO NOT ANSWER THE PHONE UNTIL AFTER 3pm

          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...

          10

          DO NOT SCHEDULE CALLS OR APPOINTMENTS UNTIL AFTER 3pm

          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.

          11

          DO THE 'HEEBIE JEEBIES' EXERCISES ONCE PER HOUR

          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.

          12

          DO NOT LET OTHERS READ OR COMMENT ON YOUR MANUSCRIPT

          Once I sent my nearly completed manuscript to 12 friends for consideration. I received back nearly 12 copies of my printed out manuscript all enthusiastically edited and notated with red marker pen. Each person's opinions contradicted the next. I was so overwhelmed I through the whole manuscript away and could never look at it again. It is the book that was written through you. Do not let others criticize your Muse. Just don't.

          13

          SKIP SMOKING, DRUGS, ALCOHOL, AND POT

          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.

          14

          IT IS PAINFUL TO WRITE A 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. 
          15

          DO NOT WRITE A DEAD BOOK

          If you are not transformed by writing the book, you are writing a dead book.

          Do not write a dead book.

          Instead, plan to die again each day that you write the book, each time in an unpredictably excruciatingly alive way.

          16

          LET PEOPLE LOVE YOU

          17

          YOU WILL BE IN THE BIGGEST LIQUID STATES OF YOUR LIFE WHILE WRITING - YOU CANNOT HANDLE THESE LIQUID STATES ALONE.

          Get your butt into a weekly Possibility Team and EHP Dojo for psycho-emotional writer support.

          While you are there, try out your experiments with the others.

          Ask them to try them out on you.

          This will help you to go through your growing up and healing processes needed to write the book.

          18

          WRITING IS AN ALCHEMICAL PROCESS

          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.

          19

          WRITER-FITNESS INCLUDES YOU FULLY PARTICIPATING IN A TRANSFORMATIONAL PATH. YOUR PERSONAL EVOLUTIONARY PROCESSES FERTILIZE YOUR WRITING.

          20

          WRITING IS MEMETIC ENGINEERING - IT IS BRAIN SURGERY - DO IT CAREFULLY AND PRECISELY

          (See the WRITE FIERCELY notes below.)

          21

          FIND YOUR MUSE AND HONOR HER WITH YOUR ATTENTIONS

          Create a small sacred altar to the Muse.

          She is there, waiting, listening, wanting you to write.

          Make your altar of nonlinear creation with a candle and sweets.

          Feed Her with your loving attentions.

          You will not regret it, although you may not know how to embrace your own longing for the Muse. 

          Don't contain your longing. Use it to write.

          22

          LEAN ON THE DOORWAY

          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.

          23

          DO NOT EDIT AND WRITE AT THE SAME TIME. THEY ARE TWO TOTALLY DIFFERENT FUNCTIONS. EITHER EDIT OR WRITE.

          WHEN YOU WRITE, FORGET ABOUT EDITING. DUMP OUT EVERYTHING ONTO THE PAGE.

          YOU CAN CUT OUT THE CRAP LATER.

          24

          LET A GOOD EDITOR TO WORK OVER YOU AND YOUR WRITING

          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.

        • If you don't write it, we can't go there.

        • Write Fiercely

          Personal Strategies For Writing from Clinton Callahan

          Writing... is a very personal thing. There are so many possible distinctions.

          For example, I re-edit each new S.P.A.R.K. something like fifty times while I write it before it is finished. The result is memetic engineering.

          Your writing should cause profound healing and transformational brain surgery on people's memes.

          Here are some strategies:

          1. Make your writing flow in the Reader's mind, like an amazing movie. Each scene magically flows into the next. It is a journey that hangs together like an adventure story.
          2. Your Reader is a Journeyer. The journey has a beginning, a middle, and an end (a wrap-up). Tell your Reader what you are going to tell them. Then tell them. Then tell them what you just told them.
          3. Remove divergences. Stay inescapably focused on the intensities of NOW. Minimize the Reader's NOW.
          4. Banish anything fanatical or dogmatic. Instead, investigate new possibilities with the Reader.
          5. Make thoughtware diagrams (thoughtmaps) to illustrate anything complex. Give the Reader visuals to complement your 'verbals'.
          6. Provide instructions for experiments so the Reader has a way to integrate your clarity into their every day life.
          7. Add bits of magic through funny insights, personal true anecdotes. Be amazed at life and allow your Reader to be amazed with you. Then you are comrades.
          8. Write in present tense so that action is happening right now, here, inside of you. Not in the past. Not in the future. Not somewhere else.
          9. Write action. Using passive 'is' and 'being' and 'have' and 'are' tries to make an unsafe journey safe. This is bullshitting. Life is not safe. No one gets out alive. Get real. Make the journey explicit through and tumble explosions. Cause the Reader's fantasy world to hit the wall of reality to their illusions die badly across your pages. Let them hate you so they can love you.
          10. Speak directly to 'you' from 'I'. Write confronting ake it personal, confrontive, yet never do I assume I know what is happening in their lives or what they think or feel while they are reading.
          11. I try to tell the reader when I am guessing what it might be like for them, what they may by feeling, what could happen. Then they have space to be there with me and disagree... until they get what I am saying.
          12. Use no jargony words... okay... maybe one or two. But then define the hell out of them, and use them over-and-over as a central theme until they have become new empowering friends.
          13. Do not smash the Reader with too many big ideas all at once. You cannot explain everything in one paragraph, or even one chapter.
          14. Include astonishing never-before-written metaphors to bridge the Reader into remarkable ways of viewing things.
          15. Avoid all clichés and common phrases. Never allow the Reader's brain to kick in and say, "Yeah, I know what he is going to say next. I know how this sentence will end." Make them anxious to read every word, so they trust themselves to have spent their time reading what you write.
          16. Surprise yourself. Speak from nothing. Speak from the Void. The moment you think of one way to say something, drop it. Stay open and suddenly the next thing comes. Write things in ways that you never thought them or said them before in your life.
          17. Make the Reader think alertly with you the whole journey.
          18. Do not put more than one idea into one paragraph. Make small digestible paragraphs. Readers have shorter attention spans these days. Build the paragraphs to follow each other like stones in a path through a Japanese garden. If the next stone is not obvious for the Reader to step onto, then they fall off into the abyss and you lose the Reader.
          19. Make no assumptions about what the reader knows or is. Make no assumptions about how it is for them. Instead, instantly grip onto the Reader like Velcro, and go with them on your transformational roller-coaster ride.
          20. Make no assumptions about what the Reader remembers from the previous paragraph. Avoid using 'it' or 'that' while assuming your Reader knows what you mean. Say what you mean. Mean what you say. If you force a Reader to remember concepts rather than re-landing the distinctions in their soul, then you force Readers to remain in their mind where change does NOT happen.
          21. Wrestle with the radical honesty-ness of your writing. Cheerfully fall into the 'I don't get how to do this' gap of terror. Stay there. Then write like your reader's life depends on what you give them.
          22. Work over your words so that your writing cuts through sleep and ignorance like hot lava burns a new path down the side of a volcano.

          There are more things. When you find them, please share them with other writers.

           

          I hope you keep writing. If you have read this far, there is power and necessity in your writing voice. Please let your Dragon Writing roar forth.

        • Genius...

          Sensible advice from Hemingway about Write The Book

        • Books That Empower You To Write

          Walking on Water, Derrick Jensen

          Walking On Water - reading, writing, and revolution by Derrick Jensen

          Do the exercises that Derrick Jensen gave to his writing class. Then don't stop feeling, sensing, thinking, and expressing yourself in words. The world is waiting for you to share your journey!

          "Ultimately this book is a graceful yet urgent call for us all to wake up, think for ourselves, and passionately dedicate our lives to what is meaningful."

          "The best writing book ever written."

          Characters & Viewpoint, Orson Scott Card

          Characters & Viewpoint by Orson Scott Card

        • How To Publish A Book

          1

          FIRST: FINISH WRITING THE BOOK

          Until you have your finished book in hand you have NOTHING. Publishers are not naive enough (unless you are already rich and famous as a writer) to believe you when you say you will finish the book for them.

          2

          NEUROSIS YES, PERFECTIONISM NO

          We want your neurosis, your character style and slant, your quirks. Celebrating and exploring your neurosis is the joy of life coming through your writing. However, your manuscript will never be perfect. If you try to make it perfect we have to publish it after you are dead. Each person perceives with their unique perspective. Your editor will have their own opinions based on their own reasons (they will say it is experience but it always comes down to reasons - so keep explaining your reasons why you wrote the book the way you wrote it). You will need to hold it in your heart that although you have written the book in a style that pleases your own neurosis, it may not please enough other neurosis to make it read-worthy - a decision that others must make. So you may need to let your editor win sometimes.

          3

          IT IS STILL NOT YOUR BOOK

          4

          LET YOUR BRIGHT PRINCIPLES SOURCE YOUR PUBLISHING STRATEGY

          5

          TRUST IN E.C.C.O. (Earth Coincidence Control Office)

        • Inspiring Books To Read While Writing

          ...remember, these are my favorites. You probably have different tastes in inspiration.

          The Difference Engine, William Gibson, Bruce Sterling
          I Shall Wear Midnight, Terry Pratchett
          Reamde, Neal Stephenson
          Treason, Orson Scott Card
          Daemon, Daniel Suarez

          ...then read part 2 of Daemon titled Freedom:

          Freedom, Daniel Suarez
          A Rage for Revenge, David Gerrold
          Little Brother, Cory Doctorow
          Seventh Son and Red Prophet, Orson Scott Card
          Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
          Watch the North Wind Rise, Robert Graves
          Thief of Time, Terry Pratchett
          The Worthing Saga, Orson Scott Card
        • Inspiring Films to Watch While Writing

          Shakespeare in Love
          Freedom Writers
          Casanova
          Finding Neverland
          Miss Potter
          Finding Forrester
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          NOTE: This website is a Bubble in the Bubble Map of the free-to-play massively-multiplayer online-and-offline thoughtware-upgrade matrix-building personal-transformation real-life adventure-game called StartOver.xyz. It is a doorway to experiments that upgrade your thoughtware so you can relocate your point of origin and create more possibility. Your knowledge is what you think about. Your thoughtware is what you use to think with. When you change your thoughtware, you go through a liquid state as your mind reorganizes itself. Liquid states can bring up transformational feelings and emotions. By upgrading your thoughtware you build matrix to hold more consciousness and leave behind a low drama life of reactivity. No one can upgrade your thoughtware for you. More interestingly, no one can stop you from upgrading your thoughtware. Our theory is that when we collectively build 1,000,000 new Matrix Points we will change the morphogenetic field of the human race for the better. Please choose responsibly to read this website. Reading this whole website is worth 1 Matrix Point. Doing any of the experiments earns you additional Matrix Points. Please use Matrix Code WRITBOOK.00 to log your Matrix Point for reading this website on StartOver.xyz. Thank you for playing full out!

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