Jack Londons advice

[weeder]

From "Getting Into Print," 1903
By Jack London


Don't dash off a six-thousand-word story before breakfast. Don't write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen. Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don't get it you will none the less get something that looks remarkably like it. Set yourself a "stint," [London wrote 1,000 words nearly every day of his adult life] and see that you do that "stint" each day; you will have more words to your credit at the end of the year.

Study the tricks of the writers who have arrived. They have mastered the tools with which you are cutting your fingers. They are doing things, and their work bears the internal evidence of how it is done. Don't wait for some good Samaritan to tell you, but dig it out for yourself.

See that your pores are open and your digestion is good. That is, I am confident, the most important rule of all.
Keep a notebook. Travel with it, eat with it, sleep with it. Slap into it every stray thought that flutters up into your brain. Cheap paper is less perishable than gray matter, and lead pencil markings endure longer than memory.

And work. Spell it in capital letters. WORK. WORK all the time. Find out about this earth, this universe; this force and matter, and the spirit that glimmers up through force and matter from the maggot to Godhead. And by all this I mean WORK for a philosophy of life. It does not hurt how wrong your philosophy of life may be, so long as you have one and have it well.

The three great things are: GOOD HEALTH; WORK; and a PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE. I may add, nay, must add, a fourth—SINCERITY. Without this, the other three are without avail; with it you may cleave to greatness and sit among the giants.


http://www.artofmanliness.com/2013/0...on-on-success/

[BF]

And the point of this thread is...?

[RP#62]

And regarding sincerity, one should always be sincere, it if you don't mean it.

-RP

[Mr Whiskey]

Dude, you need to stop smoking that sh1t

[Patrick]

It sounds as though he may have just read one of his books, got hooked and is now interested in his life so he started looking. Just an idea.
I think the last paragraph says it all.
Even though he was an atheist and socialist, he was a good writer that died way too young.

[The emperor has no clothes]

Dude, you need to stop smoking that sh1t

I don't know. One more toke and he might be coherent.

[Robert]

So you quote a man maybe on manhood that was rejected from birth, mother was deranged, gave (him) the son away to ex-slave the father never acknowledged him accused the mother of sleeping with other men and lived in San Fran and went to Berkley even then a liberal. He actually never got over his fathers rejections and the mothers suicide attempts. At the time of his death, he suffered from dysentery, uremia, and late stage alcoholism; he was in extreme pain and taking morphine, and it is possible that a morphine overdose, accidental or deliberate, may have contributed to his death.

I don't know why you would quote a man on manhood that had these kinds of issues in his life, yet say that you know the Lord. From the ramblings you sound about as coherent as this man. While writing was the thing he did for a living I would not consider this mans advise on living a good life. He is about as broken a man as you can find. The song Jethro Tull song Locomotive breath comes to mind.

Psa_34:17  The LORD hears His people when they call to Him for help. He rescues them from all their troubles.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_London

According to Flora Wellman's account, as recorded in the San Francisco Chronicle of June 4, 1875, Chaney demanded that she have an abortion. When she refused, he disclaimed responsibility for the child. In desperation, she shot herself. She was not seriously wounded, but she was temporarily deranged. After giving birth, Flora turned the baby over to ex-slave Virginia Prentiss, who remained a major maternal figure throughout London's life. Late in 1876, Flora Wellman married John London, a partially disabled Civil War veteran, and brought her baby John, later known as Jack, to live with the newly married couple. The family moved around the San Francisco Bay Area before settling in Oakland, where London completed grade school.

In 1897, when he was 21 and a student at the University of California, Berkeley, London searched for and read the newspaper accounts of his mother's suicide attempt and the name of his biological father. He wrote to William Chaney, then living in Chicago. Chaney responded that he could not be London's father because he was impotent; he casually asserted that London's mother had relations with other men and averred that she had slandered him when she said he insisted on an abortion. Chaney concluded that he was more to be pitied than London. London was devastated by his father's letter; in the months following, he quit school at Berkeley and went to the Klondike.

Jethro Tull Locomotive Breath
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJkmHQ2q--I

One last thought we are not maggots according to God. Dirt, sheep, maybe but we are created in Gods image. We are sons and daughters of Christ adopted in through the Blood of Christ. We have an inheritance and a helper in this life. We are more than conquerors and can do all things through Christ who strengthens us. We die to the flesh daily but take up our cross and call on the name of the Father and He will deliver us. The very power that raised Christ from the dead is the very same power that God gave us in His Spirit to live. He is the Comforter and the one who lives in us and through us to help us accomplish the things the Father has set before us. We are not waves tossed here and there by every whim of life. We are not to live in bondage to man to drugs alcohol, hurts rejections or any demonic power. These are all lies of the enemy and if accepted will result in in conquered life. Jesus was our example, He accomplished what He was set on this earth to do. We all have a life and a purpose do it with the power and conviction that the Lord has provided.

Deu_30:19  "Today I have given you the choice between life and death, between blessings and curses. Now I call on heaven and earth to witness the choice you make. Oh, that you would choose life, so that you and your descendants might live!

                                                        "The truth of the matter his advice is almost worthless"
                                                     and I would have to question yours if you think his had value         

[Big Al of Tennessee]

Jack said,,,,,,,If you want to be good at what you do,,,,,,,,,,,,practice practice practice.

Take care of yourself.

Be Honest.

He said from Maggots to the Godhead..be knowledgeable.

Not that we are maggots.

People see what they want to see. I read what he said. ONLY.

[Oss]

What matters in the end is not where you came from

but what you do with your life, we all have $hit and
we are all dust in the end

The glory is what we do with our lives and how we effect others
as well as ourselves

I cant wait for the damn snow to stop so I can ride    

This is the longest I have gone without riding in 14 years

[Patrick]

I thought the man did OK considering everything he'd been through. He made his own way in this world and did what he wanted to do.
He contracted some diseases that may not even be able to be cured today. I can understand the alcoholism and morphine.
He had some ideas that are different from some of us, so what. Maybe he knew something we don't.

[Oldfishguy]

It is simply an advice to writers excerpt; within it is good advice from a seasoned writer of his time. 

His short story "To Build a Fire" is one of the great short story pieces I have ever read.  Living in the north woods I take heed before heading out into the winter elements.  My mind goes back to that story when the cold starts to seep in.

[Northern Valk]

That's a mighty high horse to fall off of.   

[Robert]

That's a mighty high horse to fall off of.   

Maybe I was a bit to strong but I would prefer, to

Listen to someone who is consistently living a good life not someone who offer glimpses of good thought that's all. They can tell you what they desire and what worked in the moment but not how to achieve a good consistent life. Some rappers are a great example.