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I never paid enough attention at school, and as a result I half know a lot of things, which makes me a very dangerous person to know, particularly when it comes to DIY. Back then I used to think I was lazy, but I now realise (being a good marketer) that I was just very, very reflective. This need for reflection has continued throughout my life, and I often need the stimuli of, say, beer or cricket in order for the laziness, sorry reflection, to be at its peak. During such moments I am often prone to writing furiously, hammering the poor keyboard for an hour before I collapse, exhausted by my reflectiveness (which I don’t think is the idea). This section has the product of this furious reflection (a novel concept, which is growing on me). I aim to cobble all my disparate thoughts together into a book which no-one will print and thus no-one will buy. It can then perform the necessary role of being a beacon to my irrelevance, flashing its warning light on to my gargantuan ego which can easily become untethered from reality after reading good evaluations from a recent talk. I am listing on this pdf the sections that I want to write on, heavens I even know broadly what I want to say, just can’t seem to write the darn thing. |
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I’m now half way through the year and I have written precisely nothing except a nice plan. This is worryingly similar to my revision for my A levels. The revision
plan was a masterpiece, colour coded and everything. Alas my grades
were a catastrophe, which my mother has never fully recovered from.
So basically I am saying don’t get your hopes up OK? But check back
every so often to see what progress, if any, I’m making.
Post script
- (Nov '06) Just a quick note to
say that next year, I shall become a published author.
The book will hit the virtual shelves of the internet next
September. It will be called ‘the porcupine principle’ and is
about ‘philosophical reflections on fundraising’ i.e. has no
market whatsoever. There will be an initial print run of 750
(‘niche marketing’, I think they call it) and I will be paid
absolutely nothing for it. However if it is reprinted (less than
no chance), then I might get a bit, but not enough to retire on,
or indeed buy you lunch with. It will be published by the
Directory of Social Change. Now all I have to do is write it…
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