There’s one swollen, often misused form of literature that comes in somewhere between Biographies, Magazines, and Nonfiction. They try to make it look like it’s really not a mass guru-frisky, over-populated swag of books that are slowly taking over. It’s the cookbooks, how-to’s, financial formalities, business keys, testing tools, personal project pendencies, religion regulatoriums, and of course the self-improvements, and so on. These handy-dandy jots were duly noted, published, and presented in such a way that you too might share in the over-vast forge of gathered knowledge.

Once upon a time, you couldn’t find absolutely any fathomable, learnable subject neatly done-up in the confines of a book. This informational age has gone crazy with figuring out everything for themselves. (note: reading it in a book does not qualify as doing it yourself. it’s the know-it-all time-saver that allows you, the dumb one, to get “ahead”.) Some of these how-tos and what-fors are potentially priceless but others are beyond mockable.

Don’t deny yourself the freedom and power of filling in the bookstore shelves with anything that might be missing. Even if it’s just your take on a popular conundrum. Go for it. Write it out, share it. Maybe you’ll become one of the “smarties” everyone else is clamoring to be. If these books can hit shelves. . . anything can.

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