Scores of books have been published that are aimed at making the “reader” a bona-fide “writer”.  Are these books worth reading?  Every book is worth being read, but are these writing books worth being purchased?  The decision to spend money on such a book is entirely yours, but there are far more articles available fr free on the Internet such as this one that will tell you just what you need to know to get started. Methods The first thing you need to start writing is something to write in.  I prefer spiral-bound notebooks for many reasons.  For example, I feel notebooks are perfect...

When I was 12 years old, I started my own shit list.  Many adults claim that someone did something to intentionally piss them off, and that the individual(s) were now in their shit list.  My parents weren’t the most popular people when I was in middle school, and they did wage a lot of complaints having to do with their perception of my wholly inadequate education being below par to my learning potential.  What they failed to realize is that in public school when you have a 40:1 student/teacher ratio, the potential for individualized instruction is quite limited.  My parents always used to say things...

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