Statistics don’t lie, go for the cocaine!
What does this mean ?
It means authors recommend what works for them, not necessarily what will work for anyone.
And the last panel just tells you to use cocaine, unrelated.
Stephen King has entered the chat
Not unrelated
Or very related
If you want to write effectively, you need to sit by a cafe window and look out at the street while it’s raining. If someone asks you what your book is about, sigh heavily, then say that it’s a think piece about furries in space.
Do a barrel roll!
You’re becoming more like your father!
Aren’t all furries in space time already?
This is all good advice
This also applies to art.
I cannot recommend Ray Bradbury’s “Zen in the Art of Writing” enough!
It’s a great collection of essay’s about creativity and writing that never fails to light a fire under my ass and get me out making things.
I used meth to write my book (I genuinely have an ADHD component to my mental health but it still fucked my brain and I’ve been clean two n a half years), but now I just brute force this ish. I mean, I smoke weed. Drink maybe once a week. And I masturbate to achieve ecstatic gnosis, obviously (and NOT on offbrand Walmart Benadryl anymore), but I shit out 2k-7k words a day by being agnetic, which means I always go above the call of duty, voluntarily, and I’ve done this for about twelve years, sew I r a gud @ righting automatikly liek fer reel d00d.
Don’t focus on the book. Focus on you, growing as tall as you can living your best life, and the books will essentially fall out of you as long as you’ve done the work to get where you need to be.
Is agnetic a typo? I don’t known that word.
God had me invent it. Complicated to explain, assume schizophrenia if you don’t know about the topological matrix you are, but there’s this word, supererogatory, which means to go beyond the call of duty. The hallmark example is stopping a purse snatcher. But, you can be forced to go beyond the call of duty. Thus, agneticism is what allowed humanity to rise out of Eden through the Agricultural Revolution, learning what objective good and bad are in the system they are not in but rather are.
I will let this serve as justification for NOT purchasing any of the books you’ve written.
Don’t worry, it’s written above your grade level. Part of the reason the CIA taught me how to employ dazzle camouflage is to make sure I don’t accidentally wake up children to the occult before they’re ready, cuz if you reflexively judge a book by, not even the cover, you just heard some shit from the author deliberately marketing his educational work to the people most in need of help, then you’re not a potential reader. You’re an animal.
Now go be butthurt cuz I know you can’t help it, being reflexively dependent on your emotional impulses and likely held up by a normative ethos complex with your chosen figurehead idols.
99% chance you refuse to reply or shoot out what you think is a dagger in my heart to then ignore any replies from me after that point. But maybe you’re different. Unlikely; statistically speaking, you’re a statistic, and from experience I can say I’ve had this conversation multiple times now!
Are you sure you actually laid off the cocaine? 😅
Yes, cocaine makes me jittery. I don’t like it. Now, Adderall and methamphetamine both work differently than cocaine (preventing reuptake of dopamine vs flooding dopamine), which both make me “feel” normal (no euphoria) but I can sit still for 48 hours straight, writing the whole time, mind being able to hold a stack of three paragraphs rather than three sentences of what I’m about to write.
But, that also led to major depression and not being able to write more than three paragraphs when sober, so I quit with my life partner’s help and now I’m just your average run-of-the-mill schizoaffective juggler, and you see how my authentic emanations are innately superior to what most people do with their lives. Ah, I shouldn’t punch down. After all, I couldn’t work at Walmart for twenty years. I’d kill myself!
Use Vim?
Instruction unclear - trapped in Vim.
:q
:q!
cocaine tbh if you can’t make something fantastix blitz out of your mind on coke you can’t make something good sober
Writing one line at a time
Never outline. Just wing it, let it rest for a while (days, weeks, month) and then read it again. That last piece of advise is also from Stephen King. I believe from the newer preface of the Dark Tower series.
He also provided the “use cocaine” advice.
As a writer, yes.
Stephen King’s book On Writing is a pretty good resource for advice for aspiring writers.
For the high level points, writers should write. A lot. That’s his biggest piece of advice.
Writers should also try to “expand their toolbox”, meaning they should be able to use different methods. Just keep practicing writing with the tools you have and the techniques and tools you discover. Eventually, you’ll find what works for you. You can’t just expect to use a tool proficiently without practice. But everybody is different, so in the case of outlining, for example, if you practice with it and it just doesn’t work, then you’ll eventually know that it won’t work for you.
The last big point is to develop writing habits. Like, follow a specific daily schedule. Write a certain number of words each day.
The secret to how King achieved those three objectives (especially the first one)…? Cocaine!
IIRC, in On Writing, the bad habit he spends most of his time talking about is his drinking. And he claimed that when they took his booze away, he started drinking mouthwash. He was so blackout drunk for so long that he doesn’t remember writing one of his books. I think it was Cujo.
I love to write but I also love doing lots of things so I only end up just writing verbose internet comments sporadically instead.
Sometimes I don’t even have time to
Time to…what? Sell me your book?! I’m a publisher, sell me your book! Sell me- gah, just missed him.
Wait really? Because I have a half finished book I’ve never had the heart to finish because that style of book has gone out of style
It’s a bathroom reader about bathrooms. I have STORIES. Everyone has phones now
I remember a coffee table book about coffee tables that did pretty damn well, make it!
Brainstorm with shrooms. Always outline. Use cocaine to write.
One of those works better than the other 2 combined.
