Writing your own scripture

[Unveiled Artist]

It only takes as much time and effort as one is willing and able to invest. Nothing more, nothing less.

That said, as someone who has been working on a "scripture" for the past decade (and will be for decades to come), yeah. It takes a monstrous amount of time and effort when done seriously. I should be getting paid for it or something. There's probably the equivalent of at least half a dozen books that I could pull out of the stuff I've written, had I the inclination. Fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on point of view), I lack that inclination.



Whatever you want. Sometimes, what you leave out says as much as what you put in.

"Scripture" is really the wrong word to use for what I do, though, as that term is specific to Abrahamic religions and has connotations that are likely inappropriate outside of those religions. There's absolutely nothing dogmatic or incontrovertible about the things I write. I view it as a perpetual work in progress, hence, it's been worked on for around a decade, and will be worked on until the day I can no longer do so.



Different approaches for different folks. What you put in depends on the role it is intended to serve. Some will populate the tomes with content written by others, make it a sort of compilation. Others will only include personally written material. Some may fuss over citations and footnotes, others compose everything with rhyme and meter. Just... whatever you want it to be.

Eh. I understand. I have so much going on in my life that siting down and writing scripture would take to much out of me. Best I do is the actual actions, altars, etc to venerate etc. If I tried writing all my prayers in a bool to go back, then Id loose the purpose of praying in the first place.

Dont get me wrong, I love books and writing (hint hint), and I could write my own scripture. I just dont have the mental and physical energy to keep up with everything. Multitask.

That, and I personally envision spirituality more of something thats a part od you. So basically, Id be writing about myself. More of a diary. That. I do. Scripture or a book set for spiritual means, I have many ideas..but to think of them all exhausts me.

I need a stenographer for that.

Probably later when Im not so weighed down with mental mess.

 

[Quintessence]

It helps if you do one project at a time. I'm going to spin a little anecdote that relates to this:

My Book is essentially a manual of my religion - of my worldview and way of life. There's a distinct problem in attempting to encompass something like that in a book, however. Books lend themselves to a linear format. There is a beginning and an end to them. Religions, however, are not linear beasts. They are more like tapestry, with lots of threads, all weaving together. It can't be represented well in linear format. One of the things I wrestled with early on with formatting is "golly, what order am I going to put this stuff in?!" It's a major issue, because everything in the Book interrelates to everything else in the Book. What do you put first? What do you write first?

The answer is it doesn't matter. You pick a chunk of your worldview, and start working on it. Do the research. Synthesize it in a few pages. Print it. Done. Move on to the next one. Come back to the old files after a year or so, revise it, edit it, add to it. Bit by bit, work on it. It's not to difficult to churn out a file on something within a week or two. The more research you've done, the more experience you've had, it sometimes becomes easier to compress the salient bits into writing. You learn how to get a point across with brevity rather than verboseness. Distill down the essence of things, for your reference. Doesn't matter if others don't understand it. It's not for them, it's for you.

 

[Unveiled Artist]

It helps if you do one project at a time. I'm going to spin a little anecdote that relates to this:

My Book is essentially a manual of my religion - of my worldview and way of life. There's a distinct problem in attempting to encompass something like that in a book, however. Books lend themselves to a linear format. There is a beginning and an end to them. Religions, however, are not linear beasts. They are more like tapestry, with lots of threads, all weaving together. It can't be represented well in linear format. One of the things I wrestled with early on with formatting is "golly, what order am I going to put this stuff in?!" It's a major issue, because everything in the Book interrelates to everything else in the Book. What do you put first? What do you write first?

The answer is it doesn't matter. You pick a chunk of your worldview, and start working on it. Do the research. Synthesize it in a few pages. Print it. Done. Move on to the next one. Come back to the old files after a year or so, revise it, edit it, add to it. Bit by bit, work on it. It's not to difficult to churn out a file on something within a week or two. The more research you've done, the more experience you've had, it sometimes becomes easier to compress the salient bits into writing. You learn how to get a point across with brevity rather than verboseness. Distill down the essence of things, for your reference. Doesn't matter if others don't understand it. It's not for them, it's for you.

Thats beautiful. I know ever since I was young, I wanted to write a book. Got one published in elementary school (school was my publishing company) was binded, and all.

I never gave up that. I started writing essays now. If I took my essays and researched them they would be a great start with what youre talking about. Its something to think about.

Id probably do it. Take all these scratch essays and put them into something. I really do want to write a book. Probably just for myself. Or for family is something happens to me. Or to my passed family.

Just exhaisted