Seriously Considering Penning My Story

Beezer

Beezer

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It involves a traumatic car accident...my ensuing schizophrenia...and my lifelong battle to set the record straight.

I was going to call the book 'Crash', but it's already been done. So I'm thinking of a variation of that word for the book title. I've tried to sit down in the past and write, but I would inevitably go spiraling down the rabbit hole again. I'm going to try and start with a few opening chapters and see where it leads.

My journey hasn't ended just yet.
 

Beezer said:
It involves a traumatic car accident...my ensuing schizophrenia...and my lifelong battle to set the record straight.

I was going to call the book 'Crash', but it's already been done. So I'm thinking of a variation of that word for the book title. I've tried to sit down in the past and write, but I would inevitably go spiraling down the rabbit hole again. I'm going to try and start with a few opening chapters and see where it leads.

My journey hasn't ended just yet.
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There are (at least) two "tricks" to writing a book length manuscript, imo.

1) Write on a schedule. Sit to write at the same time every day, even if it isn't flowing. Say, between 9:00am and 11:00am. Stick to it.

2) Write an outline first. Start with a table of contents. Then break down each chapter into sections. Then you're ready to flesh out each one.
 
@VaughanJB

Thank you for the advice! Seriously considering what you just wrote. :)
 

I had 'delusions of reference' and 'delusions of persecution' in spades. I believed the whole world wanted me dead...that I was truly the most infamous person on the Planet.

A UPS truck would drive by me and I thought it meant 'U Piece of Sh!t'.

This is just one example out of scores of reference delusions.

I could go on...and on...and on...and on. Bah! I'm getting flaky just talking about it again.
 
There was a napkin lying on the sidewalk by my parked car as I went to get in.

Nap...Kin! My daughters are my kin! Somebody wants to kidnap my little girls!!

So I raced down to their school and took them out of class for the rest of the day. Took them home with me where they were safe in my mind. The anecdotes are endless.
 
When I made an epic deed to better the world (in my mind)...I felt I had gone from a Zero to a Hero. At the Hospital there was a helicopter pad. I thought the helicopter was going to take me and Mohamed Ali to the United Nations to make a speech. It was all becoming black and white!

I wrote opening remarks for the supposed up coming event...

"Beautiful people of Earth! You may be the third planet from the Sun, but you're still number one in my heart!!"

I wanted to make billions of people laugh with that opening line! :)
 
Okay. I'll stop it in it's tracks. It's all utter madness anyways. The whole shebang.

THAT"S THE TITLE!!

The Whole Shebang!

Yessss!!!
 
Why not have a go at writing again? Jot down any ideas that come to you, no matter what time of day. You might end up having little scraps of paper with some very good material on them and when you sit down at your designated time frame, thoughts may flow easier. Good luck!
 

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