Binge (The Book)

Probably the greatest role we play in life is providing a reference point by which others can experience and know what and who they are.

I've taken some crazy leaps of faith in my life and taken my share of exploratory chances before, but this is truly the biggest, most daring adventure to end all adventures I've ever taken, kind of like my own Robinson Cruso meets Sigmund Freud .

It's also my experiment in human evolution and an exploration into the self.
This first chapter is all about "The Truth". What it is. Who Speaks it. Who does not. It's about YOU. It's about Me.
It's about who we are in relation to each other and in our relationship with ourselves.
Talk about adventures, this one is spiritual.
it's the one intimated about by Socrates when he said "The Unexamined Life Isn't Worth Living".    🙂

Binge is an adventure into what the examined life could bear.

This is that section of "The Living Novel" process where I examine my past, openly and honestly for all to see and bear witness.
By placing an interactive novel of our pasts out in the open, we are forced to consider our truths from outside of our own filters, biases, egos and desires. Here, for anyone and everyone to validate or contradict, is the interactive novel of my past, the life story of my years in television and in Hollywood and social explorations.

I say "interactive' because it is told from my perspective and is a chronicle of my truths,
but any and all who may have known me or been involved with me during any of the eras or events I portray
are welcome and invited if not encouraged to contribute their stories, insights and even contradictions to the narrative I present,
actually, especially if they illuminate another side of my truth that I might benefit from acknowledging.

In essence, opening up a traditional novel, or autobiography, to allowing others to interact with it, kind of Wikipedia style,
and unleashing the reader to inject their views, and observations, and perspectives, and where they feel it's warranted, their contrasting remembrances of any event or situation that I (or any author adopting or writing in  "The Living Novel" genre") should share.

As the chapters get released at intervals,  after this book has been completed and concluded, and after all 14 chapters are up, all the comments, stories and contributions submitted by others will be published (as long as they're honest in spirit and intent and conform to the stipulations spoken about in the introduction) and responded to.

So "The Living Novel" is one that, in and of itself, fosters truth in our culture where many other institutions and genres foster lies. 😀
As Shakespere put it "Writing Maketh The Exact Man"
so does "The Living Novel" necessitate the telling of truths right from the get go LOL 😀

I hope you'll join me in testing the waters of truth telling and launching "The Living Novel" genre.

Gregg