And I will add something now.
This is about the REASONS I write, not how to write.
I write to hopefully help people who are suffering. I do this because James Altucher's writing did that for me. I know a lot of people are like me.........quiet, shy, struggling to make sense of their fucked up lives......a lot of us are desperate.
The most desperate of us, we are searching, trying to find others who are like us......
For many years I read self-help books. The people writing them seemed fake. None really stood out.
So then I found Vandana Shiva, you know, people changing the world. They became my teachers. Each one I studied carefully. This was 2011. I went thru information, people, no one really could answer my troubling question:
HOW DO I TURN MY INSANE MIND THAT'S FULL OF A MILLION DIFFERENT CRAZY IDEAS INTO MONEY?
This was my problem: too many ideas, no follow through. Like ADD on acid. That's my brain.
Then I (thank buddha) somehow, some way, found James Altucher. I felt an affinity that borders on obsession.
I felt like I was reading the contents of my own mind. It was really spooky. I was hooked! The floodgates opened, and I started "spilling my guts" like James recommends. It was scary, it still is scary.
So, after I do this for a while now, I realize, holy shit, there's probably thousands of people like me who are trapped inside their crazy minds! I try to reach out as much, and be a symbol of "spilling my guts" so that other people can feel comfortable taking baby steps.

I'm giving back what was given to me by James: healing through radical honesty.

This is why I write. Oh, yeah, and I have a lifetime of pent up stories. Although i've written on and off for my entire life, I never considered myself to be a "writer" but merely a recorder of thoughts. Writing is easy for me, it's not something I've even taken seriously until 2013 when the story of the Solar Girl came to me through a vision......

Writing and making art are survival tactics for a mind who is lost.......it's like breathing.

So, to see how James Altucher has influenced the course of my life:

2013: 100% broke. Applying to jobs, getting nowhere. no one wanted to hire me despite my college degree and creative mind.

2013-mid-way through: got a job in car sales to relieve financial disaster.
2014: still working for the dealership, saving up money.
2015: self-published first book, Un-Crap Your Life
2016: quit all day jobs. Became full-time freelance writer for Interesting Engineering and a software company.
2016: co-authored a book, Steemit 101.

You can see that my trajectory has shifted from a life as a wage slave to a creative writer who is making a living as a writer. This is significant. I'll be honest, I never thought it would be possible to do this. It is from James that I came to understand how to turn ideas into money. He showed me how to do this. I think that if I hadn't found his writings, my life might look very different. I struggled with confidence in the creative fields, and now, it appears that I'm doing exactly what comes natural to me: writing and making art.