Climbing Maya, my book on success, was undeniably non-fiction. When I compare what I’m doing with Dynamic Pluralism, I can’t help but think of Climbing Maya as non-fiction-light. Dynamic Pluralism is so firmly entrenched in non-fiction, I worry about it coming across as boring.
It should. It’s about ethics, which is a subject we run into not just day after day but hour after hour. It’s immediate and incredibly relevant.
I’m hoping this feel subsides a bit now because I just finished the most boring part of putting this book together – Stage One: Primary Research.
Accumulating my Primary Research is just what it sounds like. I stacked a pile of books up that I felt would provide me with some relevant insight and took notes. These books included such titles as Fast Food Nation and An Inconvenient Truth, such authors as Thoreau and Kant, Sagan and Marx, such topics as general history and Greek philosophy. I cast a wide net and netted over 300 pages of notes.
Next comes even more fun – Stage Two: Follow-up Research. Now, my goal will be to take each of those articles and research them for accuracy and insight, what I didn’t know and what I might not have considered, new developments or stuff I missed. Through all of this, I never know where the voyage will take me except that I observe it all through the lens of ethics.
I’m hoping to bang that all out in about a month because the stage after that, outlining the book, will easily take me a couple of weeks. I’d love to begin writing the book in January of 2012. We’ll see.
There’s something tangibly exciting about all of this, this voyage through history and thought. It’s just damned fun and, again, this was the boring part.
Stay tuned.
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