0.0) Starting A Book
My wife keeps telling me to write a book, Shehan is telling me to write a book, and even I find myself telling the same stories over and over again. I write at least 20 articles a week and have been batting at that pace for years. I’ve been blogging for two decades all in. If it was just a matter of word count, a book should be easy. I produce a ‘book’ every few months. But of course it’s not the same thing.
A blog, like a bog, is a place you can visit every day and just shit something out. I do it all the time. I’m quite regular. A book is something else, like a baby or something. I honestly don’t know, I can’t make either one.
The problem with the blogging method vs. the booking method is one of editing. A blog, or at least my blogs, are single utterances. If I’m really feeling it I just get the title in my head and I can freestyle the whole post in one take. If anyone interrupts me during this period I yell at them and are quite petulant. By anyone I mean my wife. Anyways.
Growing up my biggest literary influences were rappers. Poets like Nas, Wu-Tang, and Outkast. These are poets à la Homer or Valmiki, OG oral culture. A rapper must be able to free-style, and increasingly, rap songs became free-styled more and more often. As The Game said, “this rap shit is basic, I…
