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<blockquote data-quote="Beginning of the End" data-source="post: 5056314" data-attributes="member: 55271">Your thesis statements, taken from the first and last chapters of your book:&quot;Writing books is a waste of your life.&quot;&quot;I've tried to overcome the influence that my years writing books had on me.&quot;&quot;It's one thing to have the talent to be a dope; it's another to put it into practice. That's exactly what I was doing when I was writing books.&quot;&quot;If you're still writing books into your twenties and beyond then you're an addict.&quot;&quot;I was starting to write books again. 'Actually,' I said. 'I'm feeling rather ill. I think I'm going to have to go.' I got into the cool air of the street and made my way to my car. It was as if I was slightly disembodied as I moved. I could hear a noise I couldn't place. Then I looked down and realized it was coming from my feet; I was running. Something in my subconscious was rushing me back to my wife, the dog, the TV, away from the lands of fantasy and towards reality, the place I can now call home.&quot;... Whoops. I seem to have &quot;accidentally&quot; replaced the words &quot;playing D&amp;D&quot; with the words &quot;writing a book&quot;.Your entire book is written around the thesis that &quot;D&amp;D makes you a bad person and you should run away from it as fast as you can&quot;.To be clear: I find your anecdotes charming, resonant, and well-written. I find your own struggle to differentiate between delusion and reality to be quite harrowing (and great material for a memoir), and I can completely sympathize that -- for you -- D&amp;D is a dangerous addiction that feeds into your inherent predilection for delusion.But you're an alcoholic who wrote a book concluding that everyone who drinks is an alcoholic. And then you're baffled that wine connoisseurs aren't amused with the broad brush you're painting them with.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Beginning of the End, post: 5056314, member: 55271"] Your thesis statements, taken from the first and last chapters of your book: "Writing books is a waste of your life." "I've tried to overcome the influence that my years writing books had on me." "It's one thing to have the talent to be a dope; it's another to put it into practice. That's exactly what I was doing when I was writing books." "If you're still writing books into your twenties and beyond then you're an addict." "I was starting to write books again. 'Actually,' I said. 'I'm feeling rather ill. I think I'm going to have to go.' I got into the cool air of the street and made my way to my car. It was as if I was slightly disembodied as I moved. I could hear a noise I couldn't place. Then I looked down and realized it was coming from my feet; I was running. Something in my subconscious was rushing me back to my wife, the dog, the TV, away from the lands of fantasy and towards reality, the place I can now call home." ... Whoops. I seem to have "accidentally" replaced the words "playing D&D" with the words "writing a book". Your entire book is written around the thesis that "D&D makes you a bad person and you should run away from it as fast as you can". To be clear: I find your anecdotes charming, resonant, and well-written. I find your own struggle to differentiate between delusion and reality to be quite harrowing (and great material for a memoir), and I can completely sympathize that -- for you -- D&D is a dangerous addiction that feeds into your inherent predilection for delusion. But you're an alcoholic who wrote a book concluding that everyone who drinks is an alcoholic. And then you're baffled that wine connoisseurs aren't amused with the broad brush you're painting them with. [/QUOTE]

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