I got back from Carstensz with a lot of issues to resolve. I think anyone who had been held against their will and detained in what amounts to an Indonesian jail would understand, right? Anyway, I had torn rib cartilage to deal with that made breathing tough. I have several other climbs coming up that I need to be in shape for. I had an Ultra coming up that required me to almost immediately fall back into my 24 miles per week running training. I had to finish writing the most intensely personal and painful to recount book ever in my career of writing Carstensz, Stone Age to Iron Age [MORE HERE]. I think Iron Age might be a veiled reference to Iron Bars - what do you think?
I was able to seclude myself for a week in rural Colorado and convert my transcribed notes to the final book. If you're an author writing primarily autobiographical books and articles, and have to endure the intensity of your emotions and physical pain while writing, then please, do everyone important in your life a favor, and seclude yourself. Seriously.
So immediately after all that, and as soon as it was live on Amazon, I crashed. I spent a few days hanging out in a variety of relaxing places. Like my hammock. A deck with a pine tree and hummingbirds. Until the next book requires me to go some crazy place in the world and suffer ...
I was able to seclude myself for a week in rural Colorado and convert my transcribed notes to the final book. If you're an author writing primarily autobiographical books and articles, and have to endure the intensity of your emotions and physical pain while writing, then please, do everyone important in your life a favor, and seclude yourself. Seriously.
So immediately after all that, and as soon as it was live on Amazon, I crashed. I spent a few days hanging out in a variety of relaxing places. Like my hammock. A deck with a pine tree and hummingbirds. Until the next book requires me to go some crazy place in the world and suffer ...
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