How to Fold Word Space and Create Your Own Author Singularity
You need critical writing mass

I grabbed another brick and put it carefully on the trampoline The bouncy fabric tightened and dipped a couple millimeters. The frame of the trampoline was holding up pretty good, considering I already had over 80 bricks weighing down the surface. I turned to the stack of fresh bricks on the ground, gripped another with my gloved hand. It was hard but honest work.
I reached out, carefully adding one more to my growing pile. It won’t be long now, I thought. I placed the reddish clay brick on top of the others and examined my work. Then I kept going.
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There’s no way around these two things that I’m aware of, no shortcut. — Stephen King
I sent the robot in with another 3 kilos of megalithinite. It got to the center of the reactor and deposited it’s payload, then swung around on it’s antigravs to return to the loading hatch. Keep piling it in, I thought. 85 kilos done, another 115 kilos of megalithinite to go. Then the reaction starts and we get light speed, baby! I tapped a series of words on the holopad as the reactor started glowing bright orange.
“You can make anything by writing.” — C.S. Lewis
What I want to create is gravity so strong it pulls things in. And I’m going to write my way to it! I’m building my own singularity, one piece at a time. You can do the same. All it takes is time, and word bricks.
I crept through the filthy dungeon with my short sword out. Sudden movement in the dim light. I stabbed hard. Got it! Another rat dead. The on-screen display tallied up another experience point. 87 XP down, 113 XP to go to get to level 2. I looked around for more low level vermin to kill on my quest to become powerful and defeat the dark lord. This dungeon grind was just a necessary evil of my long hero journey.
Little did I know that Level 2 was a Water Level. Shit was gonna get real.
Fold space like a stellar wizard
Grab this universe and fold it over. Then stack something else on top of the fold. Keep adding mass, more and more. Keep going until that spot is heavy, hard, dense. Eventually, it gets it’s own gravity.
Your career, your skateboard skills or your Twitch channel. Whatever you focus on grows. Every time you practice or produce around it, you add mass and fold space over on itself.
Even a legitimate beer belly follows these rules. 12 plus beers a day, the bricks used for constructing a masterpiece. Anyone who sees a big belly boy pounding beers feels his eyes drawn to the flab shelf. With every calorie stored, that big belly has more grab. It’s got pull. It can double as a table, too!
But I refuse to work on folding the space of my own beer gut. Not interested in being extra dense in the physical midsection, no sir. I’m getting a writing gut instead, from all of the reading and writing going down at my house.
This is what a habit is. Your own little singularity that pulls you in and gets you in orbit like a satellite circling Earth.
How’s your playing field?
Are you concentrating your efforts? Are you folding a small space to increase the concentration of energies, or just slopping your stories around like a Doberman laying brown logs on all the neighbors’ lawns ? You have to be consistent. Put all of your brown logs on one lawn!
“Don’t just leave Doberman logs.” — Stephen King might not have said this
Like Mr. King might not have said, don’t just leave logs. Read as much as you can fit in your skull. Load that brain with words and don’t push away from the plate until your writing gut is full of words.
You will never reach critical mass if you can’t get into a rhythm. You will never see that trampoline break. You’ll never reach light speed. And you’ll never give that neighbor a coronary as his anger at Doberman logs peaks. He could be reaching his own critical rage mass as he goes postal on pooch owners.
Read. write, repeat.
Critical mass is super critical
To get a nuclear reaction, you need mass. Otherwise, all you have is a bunch of radioactive material taking up space. Crank up the production and get another chunk of megalithinite on that pile. Stack it high enough that you get fission!
“I am the electromagnetic radiation guru.” ― Steven Magee
I’m aiming at 200 article bricks, each 5 pounds, on my pile. That’s 1000 pounds. A trampoline can only hold about 400 pounds. This isn’t rocket surgery. It’s simple trampoline crushing. You work with what you got, and I don’t got any rockets yet. I just have word bricks.
I’m gonna crush that trampoline into the dirt like a bug. A trampoline shaped beetle with a big stack of bricks dead center on it’s back.
Do you have a plan? How are you going to make your author singularity? Start by writing as much as you can, on a regular basis. Follow that up by reading as much as you can, on a daily basis too.
Like Mr. King said, “If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There’s no way around these two things that I’m aware of, no shortcut.”
