Stranger than Fiction pg 1 through 38

Ch 1 Testy Festy pg 3

Chuck writes here about his experience going to the Rock Creek Lodge Testical Festival in Montana. We're 15 miles south of Missoula. A wide variety of folks competing in creative sex act performances.

ch 2 where meat comes from pg 8

Chuck is in Waterloo, Iowa for the Regional Olympic wresting trials. Lots of folks with ears malformed from being rubbed on the mat so much. Wrestling is not a glamorous sport.  Especially the part where you're trying to cut weight.  People have died of dehydration trying to make their weight class.  It's pretty painful.  Not a lot of people in the stands cause that kinda pain is hard to watch.  Lots of comradery in wrestling.  When you've gone through pain like that together it really binds.  But very few of them make ti to the alypics and even if they succeed there, they still eventually move on to normal jobs in the real world.

ch 3 you are here pg 27

Chuck is at a writers conference.  There's lots of stuff at this conference going on.  But the thing he talks about the most is the process by which agents, producers, production assistants, etc. are willing to sit down with a writer for a fee and have them pitch their book.  How for most of these people this book is their only real creative endeavour and it's basically their life story on the page.  So in a way, it's not a creative thing they're pitching, it's their life.  If they can't sell someone on this book does it mean their life didn't have value?  This sort of conference didn't used to be so common.  The people that used to be there to get pitches used to be movers and shakers.  Now-a-days they're really scraping the bottom of the barrel.  Even if you sell the person you're talking to on your book, it's likely they've gotta sell to someone else who's gotta sell to someone else before you get to someone that's a decision maker that can make your dreams come true.  Lots more people these days are aspiring writers due to extra time, technology, experience and education.  But maybe even if you don't get a shot this attempt at turning your life story into a book is a worthwhile endeavor.  Because you've been more reflective and considerate of your life.