If you thought Tae-bo could get you in shape quickly, this is nothing compared to the rapidity with which central pain can make you into a great author. This could be a myth, however. Decide for yourself after reading this well written article, copies of which sell for large amounts on the open market.
In an astonishing work at the New York Publishers Study Group, it has been found that severe pain confers writing ability. In the past, it was thought that education and perhaps years of training were necessary to perfect the skill. High Schools and Colleges not only permit the teaching of writing but actually make it mandatory. It appears now that writing is the one skill that requires no effort whatsoever to learn. All that is necessary is to suffer from severe pain. At first glance, it would seem that a mind preoccupied with terrible suffering would be too preoccupied to give focus and refinement necessary for good literature. However, through some unexplained quirk of cognitive processing, it appears now that all training, expertise, conception of interesting plot lines, composition and syntax are conferred in an instant with the acquisition of severe disabling pain.
Yes, there is little doubt about it. If someone acquires severe central pain, that someone should write a book. This book will not only be readable, it will be of sufficient quality to provide a profitable and sustainable career for the author. The world is starving for recounting of the punishing and brutal extractions of humanity which pain effects. It would appear that the public does not really desire happy endings, romantic adventure, or entertaining insight. Instead the public has a thirst and hunger to hear the minute details of unbearable. pain. Now, this may seem oxymoronical since there is no vocabulary for the dysesthetic burning of central pain. The lack of a vocabulary might at first seem to be a disadvantage, but it turns out to be just the opposite. The poverty of language is the very thing needed to make a good book about the central pain experience.
How do we know that central pain is such an excellent foundation on which to begin a writing career? The answer comes from the surveys. More than ninety percent of those with CP have had the experience on divulging their illness to others of being told,
