Fending off the sharp stick

The sharp stick has been there for my entire adult life. It’s a particularly direct and acute manifestation of the Void; I am constantly aware, every day of my life, that just as I had a beginning, I will have an end, and that the things which I create are the only things which will reflect who I am as a person in the future.

I’ve been fortunate enough in my life to be surrounded by people who have the same sharp stick, the same compulsion to create. The creative urge is not a comfortable one; a person creates not because he chooses to create, but because he must, or the sharp stick will torture him and eventually destroy him.

Shelly and Kelly and I have begun working on a manifestation of that compulsion to create.

It’s a book on polyamory–a unique book, in my experience. It’s intended as a no-nonsense, practical, hand-on introduction of ethical, loving non-monogamy for a mainstream audience, not an audience that’s already polyamorous. And unlike all the books on the subject I’ve seen so far, it attempts to explain not just the hows of an ethical non-monogamous relationship, but also why someone would want to in the first place.

So far, we’ve got a very detailed chapter outline and about four thousand words of text. Wish us luck!

22 thoughts on “Fending off the sharp stick

  1. Which reminds me…

    *ouch!*

    Good luck *ouch!* with the undertaking! Now, *ouch!*, if you’ll excuse me, I’ll go satisfy my own sharp *ayeee!* and most definitely pointy stick.

  2. Which reminds me…

    *ouch!*

    Good luck *ouch!* with the undertaking! Now, *ouch!*, if you’ll excuse me, I’ll go satisfy my own sharp *ayeee!* and most definitely pointy stick.

  3. Oh wow.

    Best of luck with it. You are the single best communicator about polyamory I’ve encountered anywhere and the only person who was able to make it make any kind of sense to me.

    I’d hope that you might release it under a Creative Commons-type license and allow distribution online, for those of us too poor to order things from abroad!

    And on poly itself: I’ve still got VERY mixed feelings about it, but I am experimenting; I kinda sortof have two girlfriends now and it’s going fine. Just thought you might like to know…

  4. Oh wow.

    Best of luck with it. You are the single best communicator about polyamory I’ve encountered anywhere and the only person who was able to make it make any kind of sense to me.

    I’d hope that you might release it under a Creative Commons-type license and allow distribution online, for those of us too poor to order things from abroad!

    And on poly itself: I’ve still got VERY mixed feelings about it, but I am experimenting; I kinda sortof have two girlfriends now and it’s going fine. Just thought you might like to know…

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