I Want to Write a Book

Posted by $ Abaco 1 year, 6 months ago to Books
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I actually think I have a few books in me. And, I've been stirring them in my head. The most recent thought dawned on me as I was talking to some of my young coworker engineers the other day. We were al lamenting how stupid people are. I'm old enough to put together a great argument that it wasn't always this bad - and that's what I told them. I remember when really stupid people were not the norm. They stood out. Now, they're everywhere. They mishandle our banking, crash airplanes, derail trains, etc. And, I think there are some very documentable reasons for the surge. I have a great idea for the layout of a book on this. Some of the material will cause the readers to laugh out loud - and those are really the kind of books I've come to love. Aaron Clarey's book "Enjoy the Decline" was hard hitting while funny as hell - having me LOLing in several public places as I read it.

There is a harder-hitting topic I'd like to write about. And (thank you Ayn Rand and other's of the Russian background) I realize that putting it in a fiction novel would be wise for my self-preservation. I know many of you can appreciate that realization.

Happy Friday. Hold the course...


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  • Posted by $ 25n56il4 1 year, 6 months ago
    Hey do it! We need some laughter. But seriously I suspect you could be a very successful writer and that's my opinion. If I can do it, anybody can!
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  • Posted by mccannon01 1 year, 6 months ago
    If you can, do it! If this is something you really would like to do don't wait until you are older and regret not doing it.

    You want to see proof people are dumber today than in times past? Find an 8th grade English book published around 1890 and ask if you think high school graduates today could pass some of the simplest quizzes. Do the same with math, geography, and history.
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  • Posted by Vlad_ben_Avorham 8 months, 3 weeks ago
    Just do it! I've been writing full time now for about three years, and would have starved if I hadn't paid everything off and more or less gone Galt before it. However, in the last six months, things have picked up dramatically. If this is the new normal for me, it will turn out to be one of the best paying "jobs" that I've ever had.

    It took me five years total, and fifty three novels published to make it, but now life is pretty good, and the tax write offs were a nice bonus even when the money was very thin on the ground.

    Come on in, the water is choppy, but it is warm.
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