The Back Cover
Reader response from Promising Young Man.
“What would your advice be to actually go deeper?”
- Lauren J in [redacted], UK
To treat it as if nobody will ever see. Like solo therapy. Write for the trash and don’t judge yourself by what comes out, judge yourself by what you keep hidden.
Someone, who is hurting or simple -feeling- more than you, may find freedom in knowing they aren’t alone.
Honest writing is - nearly - altruistic.
Voices in the halls
Echo on
Into the night
As we break
Down the walls
Say your grace
In the city of sound
This is the back cover of Celebrating the Funeral.
There was a killer on the loose!
Deranged soul hellbent on filling the graveyard.
I saw him strangle the spirit of a friend and stood by as he poisoned the Christmas dinner. His favorite weapons were apathy, lethargy and he enjoyed numbing his victims until they walked towards the casket with dead eyes and caged hearts.
While he was out terrorizing I had a nightmare, or was I awake… - it’s hard to tell now - but there was a visit from a Spirit. His exposed bones had a neon glow, his voice sounded like angel footsteps.
He preached to me the dangers of living on the shore. He expressed how life would end if I kept moving forward without passion, without involving the Heart.
Then right before I woke up drenched in sweat he revealed a path:
“This is how your life will look if you choose not to care. If you decide on self preservation. If you decide to avoid risk. Choose not to put your soul into anything and your final days will highlight breath wasted, a soundtrack of regret.”
In front of me was nothing but a black abyss.
That morning the sun was bright, inspiring! I woke up in a dangerous mood, an attitude of madness! I’d decided to Live! To hunt down love and death!
I pulled my heart from behind its protective rib cage and stapled it right onto my bicep. Then in the end, if there was enough time in God’s casino, I would hang that crazed killer in the middle of the town while everyone around held their champagne flutes to the sky.
A toast to death! A celebration at the funeral!
Breaking character; the fourth wall:
Every day I receive, on average, 3 - 5 pieces of writing from twitter, instagram, substack followers.
So I’ve created a Writing Coaching Plan.
It won’t be your professors writing class. Find that from any loser on social media ‘writing’. These are my personal approaches, tricks, habits to pull out what really matters. The emotional, real material.
This will be Me & You. Daily edits and multiple calls a week. There are 3 tiers based on your skill level and level of dedication. It will be published sometime this week.
The highest tier, 3, will be for anyone that wants to write their first Novel.
All novels written will have the opportunity to be featured, permanently, on Souledidea.com
Because of the level of dedication the disciple will receive; it’s a first come first serve program.
I will never have more than 3 writers I’m working with.
Look out for the release to guarantee a spot.
I can’t wait to work with you.
WITH PASSION,
WINSTON
SOULED IDEA
THE HOBO WHISPERER
THE APATHY STRANGLER
