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The best thing about being a writer, is being read.
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Be passionate and recognise what you're missing. Be particularly understanding of civil rights movements. If you write something that doesn't take into account what the civil rights movements are saying. It is about the people with experience, not the people who are placed as 'experts' on another's experiences. Your book will be tossed off shelves in years to come when your words are akin to racism, if you don't take into account survivors of torture, who will find psychiatrist views and psychiatrisms offensive.
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My most recent book is, 'Lost in the bright'. It was a title I gave a painting way back in 2003. That painting I painted over, but luckily still have a photograph of and was able to place on the front cover of this book. The painting sits on the beach at sunset, with its neon colours. My poetry collections are thematic. I think about ideas, conundrums, and resolutions to obstacles, or elative gifts. My idea of poetry collections is to work through words like sensory equations and find what's missing, then put the missing pieces in there for people to find and gain a secret they might not otherwise have found.
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I always am working on several books at one time. At the moment I'm finalising the proofs for 'Amelioration'. This is a poetry book under the topic of symbolism that a symbolic journey of discovery. I love publishing poetry books that are around 200 pages. I'm not keen chap books that are too skinny. I'm also working on 'BEINGS 7: Spent'. Then there's the long-awaited, 'Importance: getting off the depot.' This one is a memoir and particularly significant for anyone who is suffering under the psychiatric regime. 'Importance' is going to be 70 thousand words plus. It was drafted in late 2011. I'm just taking my time reworking it, checking, tweeking, rewriting... anything that needs to be refocused. I am also working on a book about petroleum-based substances in food and other products. It should read as a guide for people seeking ways to minimise consuming what harms so many. I am also working on other books, such as novels, as well, but they're not yet at finishing stages.
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The rivers of hard put sense that is in essence considered nonsense, the arguments that drive the status of configurations that never oblige. Wishes fall like raindrops and are cursed, rather than granted – dried off, rather than fully realised.
You don’t write a whole lot of books for no reason. You just don’t. You do work, people give you money for. The reason a person writes a whole lot of books hardly anyone reads has to do with a hierarchy of needs that are not being me and ask for recognition so the writing of books expresses the need, the want for recognition of the things that are denied, but if no one reads that, their needs are not met, and the author thinks they didn’t get the expression quite right enough to reach the crowd and tries again, then again when the next book is still not recognised.
The author keeps going in abject fear that their voice will never be heard, any more than the people they wish to represent, until they put these ideas into a book people can read so easily, that the ideas in it become popular, easily accessed and well-understood.
You don’t write a whole lot of books for no reason. You just don’t. You do work, people give you money for. The reason a person writes a whole lot of books hardly anyone reads has to do with a hierarchy of needs that are not being me and ask for recognition so the writing of books expresses the need, the want for recognition of the things that are denied, but if no one reads that, their needs are not met, and the author thinks they didn’t get the expression quite right enough to reach the crowd and tries again, then again when the next book is still not recognised.
The author keeps going in abject fear that their voice will never be heard, any more than the people they wish to represent, until they put these ideas into a book people can read so easily, that the ideas in it become popular, easily accessed and well-understood.
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I have too much to say to get writer's block. The only time my writing has been blocked was when a house mate took my pens and paper off me because he wanted to yell at me to stop writing, and, when nurses in HDU took my pens off me, because I refused to let them take my blood and do their various tests. They'd already injected me with acuphase, not listening that I was allergic to it. If people get writer's block, they shouldn't be writing, they should be reading the work of a writer that has something to say that needs to be heard, or doing something else that might get in touch with their own authenticity, so they can start seeing what is happening around them.
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