Okay Then

Okay. So I've identified that I want to write and earn a living doing that. However, that opens up a literal ocean of considerations. Things like why write in the first place, what to write, and how to write.

I think my current challenge lies most with what to write. I mean, that consideration is huge. Even if you are the quintessential master craftsman, that makes no difference unless you really and truly have something to offer. I mean having the skill to carve the loveliest statue is not gonna matter much if your audience would rather listen to an orchestra.

Zowie

If you close your eyes and try hard enough you can make your mind blank. With enough practice you can train your mind to keep itself blank for some time. With it blank it kind of rests almost like what comes with a good night's sleep. Albeit the quality of the rest that comes with sleep has to be better.

I guess I am no stranger to such kinds of strange practices. Over the years I have learnt countless strange and enigmatic things. If you are a nomad like I am and stumble around much, the surprises mount. I plan to share plenty more of my tiny universe of discoveries. First off though I can only promise you I won't be able to share everything.

Justin Cronin

I have just lain hands on his two books and find them much better than I'd imagined. That's because I've wrongly thought you can't know if something's any good without it having stood the test of time. Sure if you could wait a couple of hundred years, maybe... I'm not sure if you would have the mindset to read something though if you waited and read that something as a ghost.

That's not to say you should avoid the most classic classics, or ghosts either, though. The writer needs to find good things to better the skillset and learn from, classic and contemporary both.

Really Really

I sometimes dare to wonder whether things as they go really go as they could and should. I mean if you think very much and try and pry you can't not wonder why crazy things happen. Like I mean why can one person be nice one day and take no prisoners another? Like I mean why can we build potent war machines age after age after age and advance their development rapidly and use them (gasp), while simply being smarter and ending suffering by mastering our own human nature instead would make more sense?

Mastering our only too human human nature is a worthy goal. It would serve to work towards limiting both our daily suffering and our resource destruction (particularly by saving the lives of scores of people), thereby serving to utilize resources better and make more people and their lives universally better.

My first point? The sooner the break from the caveman mentality arrives, the sooner human potential soars. Well, and my main point? I think you can make your own life and your loved ones', your co-workers', and your friends' lives better with simply more effort, tolerance and understanding.

Reading, Writing, and The Mind

Reading is something I enjoy because it opens and expands perspectives and offers food for thought, personal enrichment, and growth. Questions such as the nature of the mind perplex me. The human mind and the way that it works and endlessly navigates through things like ideas, communication, art, and even sleep deeply interest me.

I started reading literature with an ingrained, voracious passion twenty years ago. Since that time I've read hundreds of good books and tried taking a stab at writing myself. The problem of writing though is no simple one. There are literally infinite roads you can follow. That in itself can be quite daunting with a blank screen or page staring you in the face. Not only should you choose one over millions of viable potential directions and topics. The choice you do make pushes your other options to oblivion or some other time. And time, I think you can appreciate, is both something wonderful, and for almost everyone, albeit some more than others, something you just simply can't afford to waste.