How To Become Great.

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Hello and welcome. I'm feeling a little bit depressed 'cause I'm reading a book One Hundred Years Of Solitude and I was reading Google questions about it and one of the Google questions was 'How does the book end?' and I didn't close my eyes but read the information and now I know how it's going to end and it's been spoiled.

So far I'm convinced it's one of the best books, if not THE best, I've ever read. 

Every sentence clicks. 

They all make sense.

That is something to strive after in my own writing.

Try to write 'clickers'.

Note to self.

I am convinced I want to read good, classic novels 2 hours a day and write on this blog 25 minutes a day.

I want to build up some notoriety.

I love reading, but the book has to be good. It can't be just any book. There is a certain class of books I already know I would like. There are books that I've known I've wanted to read virtually ever since I heard of them. These are the books to read.

Many of them are classics. Famous. A few are not.

A few are just personal books I've had on my shelf for years that have always been in the back of my thoughts. Like Dark Nature or Overcoming Spiritual Blindness. Those are books no one has heard of, but which I have had on my shelves for nearly a decade that I want to read that I have not got around to reading yet. I will read them this year if I am able. There are a few tricks of writing that are just the tricks of the trade that are almost instinctual they are just so second-nature before you ever write your first sentence. There is one trick in particular. I call it obeying your conscience. Your 'conscience' is that little voice in the back of your head that tells you what to do and what not to do. I figure writing is just obeying 

that little voice at all times, under all circumstances. It's really as simple as that.

When you put words onto a blank piece of paper you just have to follow your conscience, like you do always. It adds up to being a good man. I'm tryin'. We only have the present moment to make miracles out of. If I just started actin' like a genius today, and kept it up consistently for a few years, eventually I would be famous. If you want to be famous, you have to be talented. If you want to be famous, you have to give the world something of value. Success is not bought; it is rented; and the rent on success is due every damn day. You could win over even the hearts of your enemies if you could just be godly every single damn day. If you made up your mind right now to be great, and didn't ever sway from that conviction/intention, you could be famous within a year or two. Kurt Cobain went from being a nobody to bein' the biggest rock star in the world in just a few years. And how did he do that? He became great. He was convinced of his own greatness, because he was truly great, and then he just interacted with the world, which was really inescapable, and so he convinced them. It really would be just a matter of time. Despite all your shames and embarrassments of the past, you could be famous in a couple of years if you would just become great like Kurt Cobain and stay that way. I know, easier said than done. It takes discipline. 'You've got to work to succeed'. If you have something really worthwhile to sell, the shit will sell itself. 'If you build it, they will come.' 'Today is the first day of the rest of your life.'