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How To Write A ‘How To Write A Self-Help Book’ Self-Help Book

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For starters you need to identify who needs to know how to write a self-help book.

These people should naturally have some form of self-help to offer.

It follows also that they have managed to help themselves in some manner.

It edges closer to inferring, on their part

some breakthrough some make do
some access (via regress?)
some magic some potion
some retrieved emotion
via a road less trod
and (in some manner) odd
of dreams and lost things
and the rebuilding it brings
might take intoxication
to rewake imagination
and let inner cremations
become new creations
some new things to cherish
some old things to perish
or join and entangle
strottle and dangle
diverting a whim
with vigour and vim
some colour, some style
some summer some smile
of hips that could swivel
and all manner of drivel
could well be the manner
that a well thrown spanner
or some other such tool
might rally the fool
to whisper to those
that the fool hath chose
and smuggle a hint
within a breath mint
that within death and despair
there is laughter and care
and you really shouldn’t mind it
you just have to find it

And it this breakthrough, that they would put to print.

Well the simplest thing would be to direct them to the ‘How To Write A Self-Help Book’ section.

But of course, to make a book of it, that is another thing entirely.

For example, you could write about reading and books, explore the N-squared ways of reading a book, what in essense is a book?, how to evaluate and taxonomize, and at the same time rejuvenate and personalize the book’s context, using what you could call the ‘Wise Crack of Dawn’ book reading experience, and offer tips on how to read between the lines that are between the gaps between the other lines. Include some stuff that integrates mind mapping with tarot cards, and/or differentiates personality types wrt i-ching. Perhaps some mention of middle-perfumery could be noted along the way, ect ect ect,…

Then there are these other titles we are currently working on:

How To Read A Self-Help Book
How To Read A ‘How To Read A Self-Help Book’ Self-Help Book
How To Write Read A ‘How To Read A Self-Help Book’ Self-Help Book
How To Write A Self-Help Book
How To Write A ‘How To Write A Self-Help’ Self-Help Book (this work)
How To Read A ‘How To Write A Self-Help’ Self-Help Book
How To Overcome Your Addiction To Self-Help Books
How To Write A ‘How To Overcome Your Addiction To Self-Help Books’ Self-Help Book
How To Create A Taxonomy Of Self-Help Books
How To Spot The Deliberate Errors In A Self-Help Book For Dummies
ect ect ect

[other titles to follow]

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What do you know about a single drop of rain?

Suppose a single drop of rain falls from a cloud base of height of H km. Suppose that at an above-ground height of h metres, it has diameter d mm. Suppose it falls alongside a tall glass skyscraper. Suppose the rain-drop-to-skyscraper distance remains a constant k metres. Suppose the sun is upon the rain drop unobstructed, at angle a to the ground.

Consider the reflective properties of the the drop, the glass, and the human eye. Consider the eneregies acting upon the rain drop. Consider other relevant factors and/or a few irrelevant ones.

Q1. How does the shape and width of the rain drop change over time?

Q2. From what locations and angles would the rain drop (or any reflection of it) be visible to the human eye?

Q3. What determines the temperature of a particular point within the rain drop? What is the formula?

Q4. Does the raindrop reach the ground?

Q5. At what height does it cease to be a rain drop?

Q6. What is altered by the raindrop’s mathematical/existential journey?

[no question is mandatory - no answer is wrong]

SAMPLE ANSWERS

SAMPLE A.

1. It stays mostly round, and gets smaller.
2. Locations of open eyes looking within the optical range of the observer’s eye, symetrical to the angle of the sun to the ground, and the glass building wrt to 2k
3. The sun. f(k,H,h,…) = g(f(k),f(H),f(h), f(…)) = 42
4. Yes
5. 0 + d/2 – x; 0<x<d/2
6. Dirt.

SAMPLE B.

1. It vibrates and gets smaller.
2. Near windows.
3. The average temperature of neighbouring points. sum(temp(points))/sum(points);inclusive
4. No.
5. 6ft 8 inches.
6. An umbrella.

SAMPLE C.

1. It gets smaller over time t.
2. Anywhere where view of the rain drop is unobstructed.
3. Atomic theory. f(fhHkd) = shit happens!
4. No, the ground reaches it.
5. 0.
6. The ground and a little weed.

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Get, set up a mantelpiece, and place upon that mantel-thingy only those entities you have created. Drawings, origami, assignments, animations, ect ect ect

Let the mantel-thingy separate you from the things you buy and the things you create. (Too much stuff, and too many distractions can hinder, encase, repress the inner you.) In other words, produce that which can be considered evidence of an inner you.

To start to create, simply grab random bits of unrelated things and ideas in your head and play with them, twist and transform them, constantly adding and removing constraints to them as you go. At some point you will have forgotten that you were trying to start to create. At any point you can examine what your mind has derived and pursue it further, or have another go, or do whatever else takes your interest.

So put only your stuff on your mantel piece, and add new stuff often. And cause no grief.

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