Building Bridges, Burning Bridges

On January 25 2009 08:30 CTStalker wrote:
i enjoyed reading these last 3. i get the feeling a book with these stories could be kind of repetitve, but still probably entertaining

On January 25 2009 08:23 yejin wrote:
I actually like reading what you write, it's pleasant. It's sad however that the unhealthy money environement in which you live in seems to have turned you into a sad and wounded person. I guess it's common to most of the young gamblers, the brain changes.

On January 25 2009 08:46 cgrinker wrote:
Stories are great two things though:

1) One, at the beginning your opening paragraph is one big run on sentence, which is cool becuase it sort of captures the feeling of what is going on, the menotany of cramming all of those things into your daily life. However after that its important to slow down the flow a bit lest your writing come off as kinda childish
2) Either swear more or swear less. The middle of the road approach just sort of comes off werid. Like you have a tick or something


Good luck on the book deal

On January 25 2009 08:35 Rekrul wrote:


i agree, though the book will mostly not be stories like these, but mostly be talking about a lot of shit relating to men, women, life, girls, money, how people change, how people dont change, love, sex, blah blah and i will use these stories to tie it all together and show how amazing yet dangerous such lifestyles can be and what i've learned from it all etc all while writing a biography at the same time

hard to pull off well but i can do it :D

On January 25 2009 09:16 HamerD wrote:


you should put a load of shit about poker in too. It's amazing how you can just generate money

On January 25 2009 09:24 fanatacist wrote:
If you are going to make a book out of this, best of luck. You have good stories to write about and I would definitely read it, but you need a lot of editting/revising to make it marketable.

On January 25 2009 09:24 fanatacist wrote:
If you are going to make a book out of this, best of luck. You have good stories to write about and I would definitely read it, but you need a lot of editting/revising to make it marketable.

EDIT: I mean in terms of grammar/speech (LOL, WTF are not going to appeal to the larger book-reading audience, I think. Although, you could have a glossary or whatever to make it more open to people who aren't that into internet-speak, which isn't that many people nowadays anyways...). Otherwise, I like your flow and manner of writing, although it seems at times like your mastery of English is diluted. More analogies like the 6 year old girl in the prairie would be cool, it'd make it more of a theme than a once-in-a-while thing.

On January 25 2009 09:43 fanatacist wrote:

For a rough draft this is all very interesting and you definitely have the basis/material to make a marketable book.

I'm thinking that the same audience that you would appeal to is the audience that authors like Tucker Max and Maddox direct their writing to. Since that's the case, I think you should get publicity first by starting a website similar to Tucker Max's as a sort of blog where you release stories once in a while with forums for conversation and input and etc., where you could also include a mini-biography or whatnot. This would expand your publicity, your marketable audience, and probably build hype once you publicly announce your book there. That way you will probably be releasing the book at a later date but with more possible revenue and thus will be more likely to get published by a good publisher as opposed to some shitty local publisher which won't give you the royalties, publicity, and hype you need. TL is a good starting point but I think you need to go bigger to really have a good foundation for a publication.

On January 25 2009 09:48 Loanshark wrote:
So have you decided on a title for your book?
Or is it just gonna be Tales from the Hood?

On January 25 2009 10:21 HamerD wrote:
The reason your blogs are interesting imo is that you describe everything in the sort of way that most of our minds would absorb the information as we were getting it, if we were in your shoes. If you had a more intellectual and reserved style of writing, it would be boring.

On January 25 2009 10:43 Rekrul wrote:
yeah i need to write so that people realize i'm actually humble and knew how pathetic what i was doing was to make the reader not hate me adn think im a toolbag

On January 25 2009 13:01 fonger wrote:
lool how about "Lost Seoul"

On January 25 2009 13:32 ZERG_RUSSIAN wrote:
A lot of people are commenting on how the writing style isn't intellectual and all that shit, but who cares? You're not writing literature, you're telling stories. There is a huge difference between William Burroughs and William Shakespeare.

This type of story is the thread that's holding your philosophical stuff together. Post more of what's being threaded. I'm less interested in the plot than what you think about things.

On January 25 2009 14:01 Physician wrote:
These days u can publish ur own book with utmost ease Rekrul, u have a few hundred sales here at teamliquid already so go for it man, I for one will be buyinbg, besides ur a writer at heart too, go go go gl hf!

On January 25 2009 09:27 Rekrul wrote:


i agree,this is just me laying around spamming my keyboard with no editing or revision, total rough draft

On January 26 2009 05:50 DukE wrote:
your memory is incredible

On January 26 2009 05:55 indecision wrote:
gogo Rekrul.
And keep posting here, not on some blog. Who was that poker blogger you hated so much btw?

On January 26 2009 07:46 Kennigit wrote:
Please call it Seoulja Boy LOL

On January 26 2009 07:46 Kennigit wrote:
Please call it Seoulja Boy LOL

On January 26 2009 05:55 indecision wrote:
gogo Rekrul.
And keep posting here, not on some blog. Who was that poker blogger you hated so much btw?

On January 25 2009 10:43 Rekrul wrote:
yeah i need to write so that people realize i'm actually humble and knew how pathetic what i was doing was to make the reader not hate me adn think im a toolbag

On January 26 2009 16:20 BG1 wrote:
As others have already mentioned Rek, don't change your writing style for the book. All the cursing and internet acronyms are an important part of your stories. It's more genuine and much easier to imagine. Anyone who would choose to read your book will understand these anyways, it's not like this will be very mainsteam.

On January 26 2009 07:46 Kennigit wrote:
Please call it Seoulja Boy LOL