what do you wanna talk about Samuel?
I've been focusing on reading and reading a few books. reading a few pages, 5 to 7 pages over and over again.
do you enjoy doing the repetition.
yeah I enjoy. but I realize it might take time for my dreams to come true
what do you mean?
like zig Ziglar said, repetition is the mother of learning. and I read that quote everyday. I have it as the background on my facebook page. so Everytime I log onto my facebook page I read that quote, repetition is the mother of learning. but it might take a couple years of repetition for me to get the information in the books and start applying it
is that a bad thing?
it's not a bad thing if you got money coming in
oh ok
but I can see why many people will give up
what will keep you from giving up
I've bought over fifty books on writing. I was looking for that one book that would get me to my dream but I was never persistent in reading the book but now I am
what changed?
the material I read wasn't sinking into my deeper mind. so it was of no use to me. if it doesn't sink into your deeper mind you're not going to apply it. and the only way it sticks into your deeper mind is through repetition.
you knew about repetition years ago. why didn't you put it into practice?
I don't know. I just didn't want to do the repetition or I knew about it but not deep down in my mind. cause if deep down in my mind I knew repetition was the mother of learning I would be doing the repetition. but I wasn't so I didn't believe It deep down in my subconscious.
but now you believe it
yeah now I believe it. I read the quote from zig Ziglar everyday. and I do the repetition with a few books that I read five to seven pages over and over again for three days then go to five to seven pages for the other three days of the week. I take sundays off.
do you really believe what you're doing will lead to success?
like zig Ziglar says repetition is the architect of accomplishment. I want the accomplishment of being a published author that's why I've bought all those books on writing but the accomplishments will not come without repetition.
do you think you'll keep on doing the repetitions for years and years.
depends
depends on what?
depends if money is not a problem
is money a problem for you
I don't wanna talk about that.
Wednesday, February 6, 2019
Monday, February 4, 2019
I'm doing repetition of reading the same couple pages of a few books
I've been doing the repetition of reading five pages of the secret of story by matt Bird over and over again. I feel like the information is going down into my deeper mind because of the repetition. hope i keep it up
I'm reading through the Breakthrough comedy writing system ebook. I'm going over it very slowly; reading and rereading the same couple pages over and over again. repetition is the mother of learning, the father of action which makes it the architect of accomplishment.
I'm reading through the Breakthrough comedy writing system ebook. I'm going over it very slowly; reading and rereading the same couple pages over and over again. repetition is the mother of learning, the father of action which makes it the architect of accomplishment.
Sunday, February 3, 2019
repetition of reading the same chapter in a book
Repetition is the mother of learning, the father of action, which makes it the architect of accomplishment.
Accomplishment is very easy. You just need years of repetition and you are guaranteed success.
what do you wanna do today samuel?
i've been doing lots of repetition with my reading
so what
i didn't use to to that before.
and what?
i used to want to finish reading a book on writing and get to the next book but now i realize my life is all about repetition. i repeatedly drink, eat, pee, shit, sleep, read mark 11:23, watch preachers preach on mark 11:23. so i think i should do the same with the books on writing
so you wanna read the same chapter of the book over and over again
yeah, not even the same chapter. the same 5 pages over and over again
then you'll never finish reading the book
but what i do read will sink down into my subconscious mind, which is the father of action
i think it's a good idea but you might not see results in three to four years.
as long i get my money every month i got nothing to worry about
Accomplishment is very easy. You just need years of repetition and you are guaranteed success.
what do you wanna do today samuel?
i've been doing lots of repetition with my reading
so what
i didn't use to to that before.
and what?
i used to want to finish reading a book on writing and get to the next book but now i realize my life is all about repetition. i repeatedly drink, eat, pee, shit, sleep, read mark 11:23, watch preachers preach on mark 11:23. so i think i should do the same with the books on writing
so you wanna read the same chapter of the book over and over again
yeah, not even the same chapter. the same 5 pages over and over again
then you'll never finish reading the book
but what i do read will sink down into my subconscious mind, which is the father of action
i think it's a good idea but you might not see results in three to four years.
as long i get my money every month i got nothing to worry about
Saturday, February 2, 2019
Without repetition you don't learn
Repetition opens the front and back doors of my mind. When I use repetition, I walk through the front door and deposit positive thoughts on the counter of my mind. When other people use repetition, they sneak in the back door and deposit their unwanted messages.
the sun is doing it's repetition of coming up and down
i woke up and ate some bread. i did my repetition of eating. what did i eat 10 years ago today? i don't remember what i ate but i'm 100 percent sure that i ate something
yahoo, facebook, twitter and tv stations are doing their repetition of feeding mindless stories to the sheeples
repetition is how you build muscle
repetition is how you learn
so you have to repeat " i command 100,000,000 dollars to come to me. i command 100,000,000 dollar lotto jackpots to come to me"
you don't repeat that just once but hundreds if not thousands of times a day
turn off the mindless tv and the repetition of stories on facebook or dailymail.co.uk
do repetition of lottery visualizations
repetition of reading the same book on comedy writing
i woke up and ate some bread. i did my repetition of eating. what did i eat 10 years ago today? i don't remember what i ate but i'm 100 percent sure that i ate something
yahoo, facebook, twitter and tv stations are doing their repetition of feeding mindless stories to the sheeples
repetition is how you build muscle
repetition is how you learn
so you have to repeat " i command 100,000,000 dollars to come to me. i command 100,000,000 dollar lotto jackpots to come to me"
you don't repeat that just once but hundreds if not thousands of times a day
turn off the mindless tv and the repetition of stories on facebook or dailymail.co.uk
do repetition of lottery visualizations
repetition of reading the same book on comedy writing
The tools available for you to use to develop abundant thinking — positive affirmations, vision boards, mind movies, motivational books, and the like — only ever work if you keep on applying them. They only work with repetition.
That’s why attracting abundance is a matter of repetition. In fact, isn’t that true for anything you want to learn in life? Whether it be a subject in school, a sport, dancing, singing, or anything else … the only way to become accomplished at it is through practice and repetition.
Affirmative Repetition
Persistent exposure to the same words, the same phrases, and the same ideas automatically rewires your brain and implants a new language into your mind, without you trying.
It's like getting a song stuck in your head, except it doesn't fade.
The formula is simple: the more repetition, the deeper the reprogramming.
Affirmative Repetition is a critical tool that your wealth reprogramming stick in your mind... and stay. Just like the catchy song you can't get out of your head.
As you move about your day, you will hear the same wealth principles on repeat, over and over again...
And your mind, especially your subconscious barriers, will be unable to stop them.
Saturday, January 26, 2019
conversation with myself 13--Do this for fun
How are my hero's actions unfairly judged and misunderstood? (that gets audience to identify with your hero)
Most good stories are about one problem. The audience wants to care about one big problem and follow it to its natural climax. What is the one problem my story is about?
Story structure is just a list of the steps and missteps most people go through when solving a large problem in real life.
If you start by afflicting your hero with a large problem and work forward from there, you will find yourself rediscovering the most common structure from scratch
The way to get from scene to scene is not to ask, "what does the hero do next?" but rather, "What is the next step in the progression of this problem?"
Take two very different types of characters and force them to rely on each other in a unique way.
What is the worst possible thing that could happen specifically to your character? whatever is worse for your specific character, make that happen, and you'll build your plot
Identify the plan, Central Action, and Central question of your story
What does the protagonist want?
How does he plan to do it?
What is the central question of the story?
What and who is standing in his way?
Once you've got your initial plan, you need to be constantly blocking that plan, either with your antagonist, or the hero's own inner conflict, or outside forces beyong his control.
The hero's plan will change, constantly as he first takes the absolute minimal steps to achieve his goal, and that minimal effort inevitably fails. So then, often reluctantly, the hero has to escalate or change the plan
The whole point of drama (including romance and comedy) is that the hero's plan is constantly being thwarted: by the main antagonist, by any number of secondary and tertiary opponents, by the love interest, by the weather, or by the hero himself
We can only care about your hero, not your plot. If your hero is a generic everyman who exists just to introduce us to your world or dazzle us with story twists, then you'll sabotage yourself. Your story exists to serve your hero; Your hero cannot exist to serve your story.
Defeating a random snow witch is hard to do. Defeating your sister is hard to want to do. That's the difference between an obstacle and a conflict
What urges does the story satisfy? give the people what they crave.
It was hilarious. Laughter
It was hot. lust
It rocked. Adrenaline rush
It was gruesome. Blood lust
It kicked ass power fantasy
It was so sweet. romantic fantasy
It was devestating. pathos
It was gorgeous. beauty
It blew my mind. cognitive dissonance
Ask yourself what experience you want your audience or reader to have in your own story, so you can build scenes that deliver on that promise.
Audiences hate it hate it when they're asked to identify with invulnerability
Making yourself vulnerable is heroic.
What makes my main character intersting?
I don't know. I haven't thought about any main character. I've just been having conversations with myself.
Now think about it. What makes your main character interesting, intriguing or unique?
I think my character is unique in that he was born in heaven and came down to earth not to save humans but to rule over them. But humans don't want angels to rule over them. They want another man to rule over them
What does my character represent?
My character is a metaphor for power. He came down from heaven with all his power. But humans have rejected devine power and instead focus on the power of money and politics
What character would be best for the story I want to tell?
I don't know what story I want to tell. I've just been having written conversations with myself, I would say, as a form of psychoanalysis. I don't think i've come up with ideas for stories from the conversations with myself
What character would best embody the virtues or ideals I want my story to represent?
I think an angel come down from heaven to rule the earth would represent the ideal power. Not power of money or politics or fame but angelic power.
What metaphor do I want to instill in my reader's subconscious?
I want my readers subconscious to come to the realization that having money is not real power but a personal conection with God gives real power.
How are my hero's actions unfairly judged or misunderstood?
This angels come down to earth to rule over humans. He heals them. He performs miracles for them if they will vote for him for president of the USA but his oponnent pounces on that. He tells the people this angel is bying their votes and why would they vote for angel? if he's a real angel why is he trying to be president over humans? why is he not in heaven?
What is the one problem my story is about?
My story is about this angel struggling to get humans to trust him to change their lives as their president. He performs miracles for them but that makes them trust him less. He turns Africa into Europe but blacks resent him for that.
What list of steps and missteps would the hero go through to solve his problem?
My hero, the angel, comes down to earth. He wants to rule over earth as president of the USA for all eternity. He performs miracles for people but they mistrusts him more. He feeds the poor in Africa and turns Africa into a superpower comparable to Europe and America but that makes Americans resents him. They tell him go be president of united Africa. He stops hurricanes from hitting the united states but people resent him more. He gets tired of doing miracles so he tries to go back to heaven but he can't go back to heaven. God has banished him to earth for all eternity.
How are my hero's actions unfairly judged and misunderstood?
I don't know
Come on now. Come up with something. You can't just have a conversation with yourself, you got to answer specific story related questions if you want to get published.
I know you're right, but I can't think of nothing right now.
Think of something. Think of multiple things.
okay unfairly judged or misunderstood. Unfairly judged or misunderstood. My hero overheard a plan to assisinate his family but when he went back home to explain it to his father, no one believes him.
My hero tried to cook A good meal for his pregnant wife but she ended up sick and almost lost the baby
My hero tried to save her friend from being gang raped but she was kidnapped and her friend got killed
Come up with more ideas. How are my hero's actions unfairly judged and misunderstood?
I don't know maybe I should move to the next question.
Most good stories are about one problem. The audience wants to care about one big problem and follow it to its natural climax. What is the one problem your story is about?
The one problem my story is about is finding out who killed the president's daughter.
The one problem my story is about is, stopping a killer before he kills again.
The one problem my story is about is, prosecuting the president for killing his wife, the first lady.
The one problem my story is about is,
Okay okay pick one and let's build for there.
The one problem my story is about is finding out who killed the president's daughter.
What is the next step in the progression of this problem?
Investagator Larry found out that one of the president's son had something to do with her sister's murder.
What is the next step in the progression of this problem?
The next step is to interview the son
What is the next step in the progression of this problem?
Larry tries to interview the son but the president forbids him from interviewing the son
What is the next step in the progression of this problem?
Larry tries to get a judge to give him a search warrant to search the son's room in the white house
What is the next step in the progression of this problem?
But the judge refuses to give a search warrant to search the son's room at the white house
What is the next step in the progression of this problem?
Larry sneaks into the son's room at the white house and gets caught by secret service.
What is the next step in the progression of this problem
Larry is barred from entering the white house.
What would be hard for larry to want to do
I don't know. If Larry found out that his daughter killed the president's daughter it would be hard for larry to do his job and send his daughter to prison. I would be hard to want to do the right thing.
how do I arrive at the moment larry finds out his daughter is the culprit?
I got to keep asking questions and answering it
What is the next step in the progression of this problem
What is the problem exactly and how is larry looking at both his son and his daughter as the murderer?
Most good stories are about one problem. The audience wants to care about one big problem and follow it to its natural climax. What is the one problem my story is about?
Story structure is just a list of the steps and missteps most people go through when solving a large problem in real life.
If you start by afflicting your hero with a large problem and work forward from there, you will find yourself rediscovering the most common structure from scratch
The way to get from scene to scene is not to ask, "what does the hero do next?" but rather, "What is the next step in the progression of this problem?"
Take two very different types of characters and force them to rely on each other in a unique way.
What is the worst possible thing that could happen specifically to your character? whatever is worse for your specific character, make that happen, and you'll build your plot
Identify the plan, Central Action, and Central question of your story
What does the protagonist want?
How does he plan to do it?
What is the central question of the story?
What and who is standing in his way?
Once you've got your initial plan, you need to be constantly blocking that plan, either with your antagonist, or the hero's own inner conflict, or outside forces beyong his control.
The hero's plan will change, constantly as he first takes the absolute minimal steps to achieve his goal, and that minimal effort inevitably fails. So then, often reluctantly, the hero has to escalate or change the plan
The whole point of drama (including romance and comedy) is that the hero's plan is constantly being thwarted: by the main antagonist, by any number of secondary and tertiary opponents, by the love interest, by the weather, or by the hero himself
We can only care about your hero, not your plot. If your hero is a generic everyman who exists just to introduce us to your world or dazzle us with story twists, then you'll sabotage yourself. Your story exists to serve your hero; Your hero cannot exist to serve your story.
Defeating a random snow witch is hard to do. Defeating your sister is hard to want to do. That's the difference between an obstacle and a conflict
What urges does the story satisfy? give the people what they crave.
It was hilarious. Laughter
It was hot. lust
It rocked. Adrenaline rush
It was gruesome. Blood lust
It kicked ass power fantasy
It was so sweet. romantic fantasy
It was devestating. pathos
It was gorgeous. beauty
It blew my mind. cognitive dissonance
Ask yourself what experience you want your audience or reader to have in your own story, so you can build scenes that deliver on that promise.
Audiences hate it hate it when they're asked to identify with invulnerability
Making yourself vulnerable is heroic.
What makes my main character intersting?
I don't know. I haven't thought about any main character. I've just been having conversations with myself.
Now think about it. What makes your main character interesting, intriguing or unique?
I think my character is unique in that he was born in heaven and came down to earth not to save humans but to rule over them. But humans don't want angels to rule over them. They want another man to rule over them
What does my character represent?
My character is a metaphor for power. He came down from heaven with all his power. But humans have rejected devine power and instead focus on the power of money and politics
What character would be best for the story I want to tell?
I don't know what story I want to tell. I've just been having written conversations with myself, I would say, as a form of psychoanalysis. I don't think i've come up with ideas for stories from the conversations with myself
What character would best embody the virtues or ideals I want my story to represent?
I think an angel come down from heaven to rule the earth would represent the ideal power. Not power of money or politics or fame but angelic power.
What metaphor do I want to instill in my reader's subconscious?
I want my readers subconscious to come to the realization that having money is not real power but a personal conection with God gives real power.
How are my hero's actions unfairly judged or misunderstood?
This angels come down to earth to rule over humans. He heals them. He performs miracles for them if they will vote for him for president of the USA but his oponnent pounces on that. He tells the people this angel is bying their votes and why would they vote for angel? if he's a real angel why is he trying to be president over humans? why is he not in heaven?
What is the one problem my story is about?
My story is about this angel struggling to get humans to trust him to change their lives as their president. He performs miracles for them but that makes them trust him less. He turns Africa into Europe but blacks resent him for that.
What list of steps and missteps would the hero go through to solve his problem?
My hero, the angel, comes down to earth. He wants to rule over earth as president of the USA for all eternity. He performs miracles for people but they mistrusts him more. He feeds the poor in Africa and turns Africa into a superpower comparable to Europe and America but that makes Americans resents him. They tell him go be president of united Africa. He stops hurricanes from hitting the united states but people resent him more. He gets tired of doing miracles so he tries to go back to heaven but he can't go back to heaven. God has banished him to earth for all eternity.
How are my hero's actions unfairly judged and misunderstood?
I don't know
Come on now. Come up with something. You can't just have a conversation with yourself, you got to answer specific story related questions if you want to get published.
I know you're right, but I can't think of nothing right now.
Think of something. Think of multiple things.
okay unfairly judged or misunderstood. Unfairly judged or misunderstood. My hero overheard a plan to assisinate his family but when he went back home to explain it to his father, no one believes him.
My hero tried to cook A good meal for his pregnant wife but she ended up sick and almost lost the baby
My hero tried to save her friend from being gang raped but she was kidnapped and her friend got killed
Come up with more ideas. How are my hero's actions unfairly judged and misunderstood?
I don't know maybe I should move to the next question.
Most good stories are about one problem. The audience wants to care about one big problem and follow it to its natural climax. What is the one problem your story is about?
The one problem my story is about is finding out who killed the president's daughter.
The one problem my story is about is, stopping a killer before he kills again.
The one problem my story is about is, prosecuting the president for killing his wife, the first lady.
The one problem my story is about is,
Okay okay pick one and let's build for there.
The one problem my story is about is finding out who killed the president's daughter.
What is the next step in the progression of this problem?
Investagator Larry found out that one of the president's son had something to do with her sister's murder.
What is the next step in the progression of this problem?
The next step is to interview the son
What is the next step in the progression of this problem?
Larry tries to interview the son but the president forbids him from interviewing the son
What is the next step in the progression of this problem?
Larry tries to get a judge to give him a search warrant to search the son's room in the white house
What is the next step in the progression of this problem?
But the judge refuses to give a search warrant to search the son's room at the white house
What is the next step in the progression of this problem?
Larry sneaks into the son's room at the white house and gets caught by secret service.
What is the next step in the progression of this problem
Larry is barred from entering the white house.
What would be hard for larry to want to do
I don't know. If Larry found out that his daughter killed the president's daughter it would be hard for larry to do his job and send his daughter to prison. I would be hard to want to do the right thing.
how do I arrive at the moment larry finds out his daughter is the culprit?
I got to keep asking questions and answering it
What is the next step in the progression of this problem
What is the problem exactly and how is larry looking at both his son and his daughter as the murderer?
conversation with myself 12
Hello samuel, what do you wanna talk about today?
i haven't been writing the last few days. it's been four days since i wrote actually
why is that?
because i feel all this having a conversation with myself thing is a big waste of time
i thought you were doing it for fun
i was doing it for fun but i used to play chess for fun but i never got better so i quit
so you wanna quit writing just because a few days passed and you're not a bestselling author already
yeah.
so what keeps you saying what you want? you've been saying the same things for almost two years. a year and 11 months actually? why do you keep doing it?
because i believe in God's word i will have what i say. even though i don't see what i say come to pass right away. i believe in the power of my words
can you do the same with your writing? even though you don't see a bestselling novel the first month or first year of having a conversation with yourself, you can keep doing it and have faith that your bestselling novel is right around the corner
yeah but that's the thing. even if i write a novel, which might take years to do, it may not even sell a lot of copies.
then focus on your songwriting. come up with declarations for choruses
yeah i was doing that but came up with a lot of shit.
but i thought you were doing it for fun.
i was doing it for fun
so you think after a few days of coming up with declarations for choruses if you don't come up with a great chorus that's gonna get your a number 1 on the billboard hot 100 it's all in vain?
yeah i should have my great idea for a chorus already
that's not how it works. it might take years of coming up with shit choruses. shit declarations before that one idea comes to you.
man i don't wanna wait years
so what do you wanna do instead?
i don't know. i want to have success but most of the time i don't feel like doing the work that will bring me the success.
that's because you have too much expectations of the work you do. just do it for fun
what fun is it doing a bunch of exercises and all my answers are shit. feels like i'll never get better.
keep on doing it man. you'll get there. never give up. never surrender
i haven't been writing the last few days. it's been four days since i wrote actually
why is that?
because i feel all this having a conversation with myself thing is a big waste of time
i thought you were doing it for fun
i was doing it for fun but i used to play chess for fun but i never got better so i quit
so you wanna quit writing just because a few days passed and you're not a bestselling author already
yeah.
so what keeps you saying what you want? you've been saying the same things for almost two years. a year and 11 months actually? why do you keep doing it?
because i believe in God's word i will have what i say. even though i don't see what i say come to pass right away. i believe in the power of my words
can you do the same with your writing? even though you don't see a bestselling novel the first month or first year of having a conversation with yourself, you can keep doing it and have faith that your bestselling novel is right around the corner
yeah but that's the thing. even if i write a novel, which might take years to do, it may not even sell a lot of copies.
then focus on your songwriting. come up with declarations for choruses
yeah i was doing that but came up with a lot of shit.
but i thought you were doing it for fun.
i was doing it for fun
so you think after a few days of coming up with declarations for choruses if you don't come up with a great chorus that's gonna get your a number 1 on the billboard hot 100 it's all in vain?
yeah i should have my great idea for a chorus already
that's not how it works. it might take years of coming up with shit choruses. shit declarations before that one idea comes to you.
man i don't wanna wait years
so what do you wanna do instead?
i don't know. i want to have success but most of the time i don't feel like doing the work that will bring me the success.
that's because you have too much expectations of the work you do. just do it for fun
what fun is it doing a bunch of exercises and all my answers are shit. feels like i'll never get better.
keep on doing it man. you'll get there. never give up. never surrender
Tuesday, January 22, 2019
conversation with myself 11
so what do you wanna talk about samuel?
my book has arrived
what book?
the book "Break into Fiction: 11 steps to building a powerful story"
so you started reading through it
yeah i've started reading through it. There are lots of questions in it and if you answer them then you will have material for a novel
have you started to answer the questions
no i haven't started to answer the questions. i'm just reading through the book right now.
oh ok
it's a good book. i think it can help with my goal of being a published author.
and if it doesn't help
if it doesn't help then i will keep on speaking words of faith
is that the only book you're reading through right now?
i'm reading through a few other books on amazon kindle.
do you think you're any closer to getting published?
i don't know. i'm just having fun with the conversation with myself. i haven't seen results but i continue to have the conversations with myself
but it seems like it's all in vain
it seems like it's in vain but i will continue to have the conversations with myself. it worked for David Morrell. it might work for me
my book has arrived
what book?
the book "Break into Fiction: 11 steps to building a powerful story"
so you started reading through it
yeah i've started reading through it. There are lots of questions in it and if you answer them then you will have material for a novel
have you started to answer the questions
no i haven't started to answer the questions. i'm just reading through the book right now.
oh ok
it's a good book. i think it can help with my goal of being a published author.
and if it doesn't help
if it doesn't help then i will keep on speaking words of faith
is that the only book you're reading through right now?
i'm reading through a few other books on amazon kindle.
do you think you're any closer to getting published?
i don't know. i'm just having fun with the conversation with myself. i haven't seen results but i continue to have the conversations with myself
but it seems like it's all in vain
it seems like it's in vain but i will continue to have the conversations with myself. it worked for David Morrell. it might work for me
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