Write
The
Book
Write
The
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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 about 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 archiarchy while at the same time 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 causing immediate alchemical process.
Life is short. Do the things that matter most. Let the rest fall where it may.
Have as much Fun as you can.
Leave a few clues around so others can find the path you are taking.
'- 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.
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.
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.
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:
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 new way.
In different ways, even by inference. They love you for writing the book. Let that love - plus the love of your Bright Principles and your Archetypal Lineage - sink deep into your cells, rejuvenating your soul. Let that love write you.
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.
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:
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.
Jump directly into any Emotional Healing Processes (EHP) that arises for you in your writing. Jump through the Doorway as the emotions arise. Your EHPs are part of your Path as a writer, and are particularly relevant to what you are currently writing. There are online EHP Spaceholders for EHPs 24 hourse a day, 7 days a week in the Telegram Emotional Healing Collaboration Group which you can join here: https://t.me/+COzXWiD1vPxhMmIx
Don't be surprised is what you discover about yourself is what your protagonist is learning about themselves! Share the gold you discover during your Processes in your book!
(See the WRITE FIERCELY notes below.)
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.
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.
Thoughtware Press is looking for transformational adventure novels from the Archiarchy context. Books are Bridges to Archiarchy.
You got one?
Great!
Finish it.
Send it to us.
We will let you know.
Go WRITE!
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 a piece of writing that actually performs Memetic Engineering. Each sentence coaxes you along a path of confronting your Standard Human Intelligence Thoughtware (S.H.I.T.) and offers you a new place for locating your Point Of Origin.
Then the next sentence comes...
Your writing could cause profound healing and transformational brain surgery on people's memes.
Here are some strategies:
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.
Hints From Writers
If you don't write it, we can't go there.
Study Writing That Empowers You To Write
Setting Out Once More: on getting older, writing books and deepening beliefs
From the first issue of Writing Home, a Blog / Newsletter from Dougald Hine
29 October 2022. https://dougald.substack.com/p/setting-out-once-more
At the end of my first year at university, I borrowed a flat for the summer above a shop on the seafront in the Scottish fishing town of Anstruther. My dad drove me up with two boxes of books, a box of tinned food and an ageing desktop computer that I set up on the table in the front room...
I had come here to write, but there was a flaw in this plan. The flaw was that I was twenty and had yet to live enough or shake off enough of my education to find a voice or have anything to say...
My dad said, 'I find that the older I get, the fewer things I believe, but the more deeply I believe them..."
The older I get, I think – and it hits me that twenty-five years has gone by, or near enough, since the summer I failed to write a book in Anstruther. When we had that conversation, my dad would only have been a couple of years older than I am now...
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 by Orson Scott Card
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.
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.
If you are writing the book to 'make money', then it was never actually a book. It was a marketing scam, a deception, a ruse motivated by your desperate modern culture money thoughtware.
The purpose of a book is to contribute to the Creative Commons that you have been taking from your whole life.
The purpose of a book is to upgrade human thoughtware by adding value to the human morphogenetic field of planet Earth.
The purpose of a book is to write the book as instructed by your Bright Principles and your Archetypal Lineage.
If they got you to write the book for them, do you think they will not also handle the publishing?
Pay Attention to subtle offers and invitations to connect with people about your book E.C.C.O.. Follow hunches and make use of coincidences.
The purpose of publishing is to make your treasure available to as many people as can use it profitably. Your book is a Doorway to a new future for the Reader. Remember how many gifts you received from other authors? This is your gift to others.
By getting such a valuable gift into the hands, minds, hearts, and souls of others, you unbalance the Universe's 'Scale Of Value Exchange' in your favor.
The Universe cannot stand to have value imbalances and will work in inconceivably complex ways to get the balance back to equivalency.
It is a good thing to have the Universe trying to repay you a balance of value.
If you don't write it, we can't go there.
Inspiring Books To Read While Writing
...remember, these are my favorites. You probably have different tastes in inspiration.
...yes, this is book 3. If you like it, you can start over at book 1... but beware, David has only written 4 of the 7 books in the series.
...or get Orson's slightly revised hardback edition here: bookshop.org/a/16582/9780312932084
...origins of discovering the Worthing Healers.
Inspiring Films to Watch While Writing
...but it is not possible to be without books.