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I Hope you will show us what you do with it. Email will not be published. Comment or question. Previous artist. Clemons Behr Berlin, Germany. Next artist. Maybe not. I should know: I wrote the talk that became Steal at the same age. For me, the only way to be able to write self-help is to come at it, not as a teacher or an expert or, god forbid, a guru, but as a fellow student. Another human who is also trying to figure these things out.
Dickey pulls out what could, very possibly, be the formula for a self-help book proposal or dust jacket flap:. This is the foundation of self-help, after all: unlock the secrets that make me better, and then tell me what to do. Is there hope for self-help? Dickey suggests that because it is so largely untapped by folks with literary or artistic ambitions, self-help is actually a genre ripe for experimentation.
Trusting yourself means living out what you already know to be true. The best posts dispense advice almost perfunctorily, before moving into long personal essays—essays that at times can seem like digressions. What self-help needs is authors willing to screw with it, to mix it with other forms and breed mongrels, to give it equal doses of honesty and weirdness.
I really do think of the books as fancy zines. If they are shelved in self-help, so be it! Related reading: Self-help as an oxymoron.
This site participates in the Amazon Affiliates program, the proceeds of which keep it free for anyone to read. Truly great self-help books are often accidental. Advice is autobiographical. Dickey pulls out what could, very possibly, be the formula for a self-help book proposal or dust jacket flap: This is the foundation of self-help, after all: unlock the secrets that make me better, and then tell me what to do.
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