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Thinking of publishing an ebook on my travel/drug abuse experiences (draft)

notsmokeymcpot42088 said:
Hey I am outlining a similar book -- about me though of course. How creepy would it be if I was also making a book about YOUR drug use lol....

I know the idea with mine will basically be to focus on a lack of conformity and how to avoid consequences from said lack of conformity --- using myself and my experiences as the general guide.

The hope is that people are not reading it because they particularly care about me and my wild stories as much as learning how to mitigate legal and sociological consequences while navigating outside of the boundaries of conformity.

The stories are hopefully enjoyable as well but I dont think anyone cares about me enough to read for that alone
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Darn I was hoping you were writing about my drug use and nonconformity lol. I also think a lot about how people naturally wouldn't be interested in my story alone because like you said why would they care about it. I go back and forth from being motivated to write to not writing at all. I have completed more since I last posted here but the writers block has hit again for the past week.
 
just need a through line that people can relate to outside of "These are my wild stories" -- Usually only celebs can get away with "My wild stories-books"

I also go back and forth over whether writing a book is the thing to do. I mean I am no authority on anything.
 
washingtonbound said:
I also can't tell if I like it much or not, first couple pages had some interesting segments and then it began to deteriorate. It's a bit difficult for me to get very emotional in my writing. I might describe a difficult experience in terms of my "thoughts" on it, but not really tapping into the feelings enough. There are definitely plenty of feelings there it is just hard to make that come out in my communication style.
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I actually like how it's styled - cause it's you, it's as raw as it gets. I was creating a picture of you more than anything and I based it off of how you speak/think/write. I gathered the way you write is the way you think and I pictured you writing the words as they came to your mind- literally. And I dig that. I've been an avid reader for 30+ years. This is you telling your real life so you should tell it in your real way instead of turning it into a "story." I would suggest checking grammar 20x before publishing (I know you said this was a draft, errors are expected and welcomed!)..did you know commas are often overused? Or so said my 8th grade English teacher, but after converting from comma overuse myself, I'm a believer! Grammar checks and timing organization and I'd pay for the book. Oh, and to prevent redundancy and continue expanding/elaborating, start telling us about specifics. One at a time. The day you swam in the river- in as much detail as you can recall, tell us the entire context surrounding the before, during, and after of dodging ebola or worse. Tell us the story surrounding being in the room with the hooker. Tell us stories you haven't mentioned so far..I know you have stories. Even events that you think are unremarkable or average, nothing special days- there's an audience for it. Some things I read, I imagine the author more than the rest. Some things I read, I imagine what's being told and don't give the author or narrator a second thought. I don't mean to imply it doesn't matter what you write because it does. But even "just another day" material can be intriguing. I know for me there's a broad range of what I get from what I'm reading. It all just depends on the writer's style, intentions, and what's actually being written. There's an audience for everything.
 
washingtonbound said:
lol. I also think a lot about how people naturally wouldn't be interested in my story alone because like you said why would they care about it.
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Not every person in the world has to enjoy your book. ..depending on your goal, only one person really has to enjoy the book for it to have any kind of meaning, right? "if the book changes one person's life..." is the general goal when dealing with almost anything. But depending on the audience you want to reach. it depends on the intention you have with the book. and expectations. some people just write for themselves. if you take ego out of the equation, what is your goal? what's your intention?
all publication, on some level, is ego-motivated when you break it down. publication is recognition; recognition is giving the ego a hug.
 
kaybaybee84 said:
I actually like how it's styled - cause it's you, it's as raw as it gets. I was creating a picture of you more than anything and I based it off of how you speak/think/write. I gathered the way you write is the way you think and I pictured you writing the words as they came to your mind- literally. And I dig that. I've been an avid reader for 30+ years. This is you telling your real life so you should tell it in your real way instead of turning it into a "story." I would suggest checking grammar 20x before publishing (I know you said this was a draft, errors are expected and welcomed!)..did you know commas are often overused? Or so said my 8th grade English teacher, but after converting from comma overuse myself, I'm a believer! Grammar checks and timing organization and I'd pay for the book. Oh, and to prevent redundancy and continue expanding/elaborating, start telling us about specifics. One at a time. The day you swam in the river- in as much detail as you can recall, tell us the entire context surrounding the before, during, and after of dodging ebola or worse. Tell us the story surrounding being in the room with the hooker. Tell us stories you haven't mentioned so far..I know you have stories. Even events that you think are unremarkable or average, nothing special days- there's an audience for it. Some things I read, I imagine the author more than the rest. Some things I read, I imagine what's being told and don't give the author or narrator a second thought. I don't mean to imply it doesn't matter what you write because it does. But even "just another day" material can be intriguing. I know for me there's a broad range of what I get from what I'm reading. It all just depends on the writer's style, intentions, and what's actually being written. There's an audience for everything.
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I have since made some revisions to it that create a more vivid picture is some segments, sometimes I gloss over things because I don't see them as important. Because the audience has a different style of reading it than I do, it can be difficult to gauge sometimes what should be elaborated on and what doesn't.

I appreciate anyone who took the time to read it and I would say most of my motivation of writing it has to do with a certain type of audience resonating with it and remembering their own highs and lows of active using. In general I think there is a lack of good media related to drugs (Requiem for a Dream is way too sensationalized for example). I like real, raw accounts only and that's what I try to portray.
 
RUC4 said:
Not every person in the world has to enjoy your book. ..depending on your goal, only one person really has to enjoy the book for it to have any kind of meaning, right? "if the book changes one person's life..." is the general goal when dealing with almost anything. But depending on the audience you want to reach. it depends on the intention you have with the book. and expectations. some people just write for themselves. if you take ego out of the equation, what is your goal? what's your intention?
all publication, on some level, is ego-motivated when you break it down. publication is recognition; recognition is giving the ego a hug.
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One book I like is "Zoo Station: The Story of Christiane F," because it's someone telling things like it is in a personal way. It didn't seem at all like she wrote the story out of feeding the ego, rather just a genuine account of what happened to her during this particular time period in Berlin. While I was never a daily user of heroin, I like the concept of trying to express the psyche of someone in active use, and how you are always grasping for something that slips away once you get it.
 
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