That seems like an opening for an undertitle of "The weak"

nerd

I'm back! I hope everyone has been nice to each other, lol.

HE'S ALIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wow, welcome back Tyler! How have you been?

I can't believe everybody thought I was dead, lol.

Very well thanks. I finished the book, put it away and went on with my life. I'm planning a trip with some young hippies, trying to bring back the old days, lol.

What other explanation could there be for abandoning us out of the blue like that?

Lupus?

Definitely lupus.

Aliens was my guess.

I was obsessed with finishing the book and it was getting harder and harder to mess around in OOT and focus on the writing. (Some sentences have more than twenty commas, lol.) I'm now writing for fun again and it fills up my days, I did miss you guys though!

I hope not.

I really hope not.

This could be closer to the truth.

Hi

welcome back!

Thanks gambit! I missed you!

Sir, I do not know you, but I am curious as to why you have been absent since 2016!

I was working on a book that involved very difficult revisions and I decided to get that finished before died. It came out at just over a thousand pages (Moby Dick goes to Woodstock, lol.) and focuses on my strange days back in the psychedelic sixties when I hitched to the concert, while wrapping a murder mystery around the trip and the next fifty years.

Now, I just write for fun!

Tyler,

What would be some of your top tips in regards to writing a book? Did you give yourself minimum hours/words per day? I'm pretty interested in your general approach to getting it done.

+1

It's interesting, because I've been retired for many years and I was always looking for a hobby that I could latch my mind onto for enjoyment. I tried painting, calligraphy, etc., but nothing really took; I could force myself to do it, but it wasn't really fun. I exercise every day, but I needed something different (mental, not physical) to pass the time. After the blog, I finally felt ready to write the book I'd dreamed of (I had a loose idea of how it was going to go for thirty plus years.) and as I began working on it I found that I really enjoyed the process.

The writing/rewriting took just over three years (!), but I still found that it was pleasurable to spend a few hours each day writing and revising. I used a process that I taught to my students where you write from the heart, letting the story come out naturally, trying not to focus on convention, then go back and clean up everything after a short while. I write seven days a week and my day wouldn't be the same if I skipped, but again, I don't need to force myself to do any of it. (My average is around seven hundred words a day, half-proofed.)

Thanks for such a detailed reply. I can see how writing everyday would be a good approach, like it just becomes part of your day. I also like the idea of a free flowing approach as it means you probably would get more done as you wouldn't get caught up in the little things which you can just fix up when you go back and edit it.

Holy ****. Good work, sir. Also, it's not lupus.

@tylertwo get back to work on your blog!
https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/2...veled-1358249/

I do have a few little stories bouncing around in my head, lol.

Sammy is a self-banner.

A banner made of self.