(Hugs to Hitch)
If anyone ever wants to write a book, here are some tips:
Keep it quiet. Dont let anyone know.
Your editor and the publisher should keep things quiet.
Get legal advice.
Why?
Because if anyone lets slip on a blog that they're in the process of writing,
cruel and bullying comments will come their way and this can disrupt the
creative process.
One man who endured hard time under the thumb of a notoriously cruel guru, wrote
[
forum.culteducation.com]
(quote)"You are so right about "Otherwise, if you make the mistake of running a personal blog and announcing your intention of someday writing a memoir about an oppressive guru, you may find your comments section swamped by guru loyalists who know how to press shame buttons installed in you during your time with the guru. They may not only 'astroturf' the comments section but their use of shame triggers may cripple the momentum needed to create and complete your much needed book."
"Well, I finished my book American Guru before the Andrew Cohen defenders got wind of it, but subsequently they have unleashed their "shame buttons" attack with a site devoted to astro-turfing and to shaming any critics, guru-talk.com, and also by ad hominem attacks posted as "reviews" on Amazon.
"I have written and posted a commentary on the sad phenomenon of former students who cannot leave the teacher in spite of years of evidence of serious and dangerous abuses. It is posted on Integral World.
"(unquote)
"Pioneer" members are departing their mortal coils by ever increasing numbers with each passing year. GMW (Williams-Sadanaga) recently among them: not only completely forgotten, but cast aside, vilified, and ignored in the end by Cult Master Ikeda (with much of the membership following suit). Shed no tears, however, for he was just a mini-cult-master and in the end merely reaped what he sowed.
(Glum)
A partial quote from Macauley's A Jacobite's Epitaph
"For him I threw lands, honours, wealth, away,
"And one dear hope, that was more prized than they.
"For him I languished in a foreign clime,
"Grey-haired with sorrow in my manhood’s prime.."