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Feedback on his books and writing style
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Feedback on his books and writing style

Frederic asks for a comment or blurb for his book One Suit for the Soul.

The Wonders suggest Rene would be the better source but offer: "It is a good read that will expand your mind." Asked how to improve the book, they advise being more concise, using less prose and more humor, saying he is long-winded in this one and loves to hear himself talk.

They recommend breaking the material into shorter stories of two or three paragraphs, at most a page, keeping all the content but adding breaks.

The same applies to Memories of a Navel Gazer.

Beyond describing his own experience he can also relate his observations - illustrated with driving a car, where both the experience and what one observes around it can be told - including observations about how he has shifted and changed, and about feelings, which he talks about a lot even when substituting words like mind or action.

They encourage him not to minimize himself and to abandon the one-story-one-subject frame, noting that they themselves say the same thing repeatedly in different ways.

He mentions plans to move toward fiction, and they tell him to have fun with it.

They close by saying he is too serious, that his good sense of humor is tied up with wanting to be serious about his humor, that he should relax, and that in his books he should remember he is talking to children rather than adults.

Session 15 — June 2012 · original position 07:32 · 09:20 excerpt
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