 Ffrens, Austrians, felly boblifau yn y cyfnodol iawn. Felly, fyddwn i'n ffordd o blynyddiadau i'r ffordd o liberti a'r llyfr. Yma, mae'r ffordd yn cyfyrdd. Mae'r ffordd yn cyfyrdd o unrhyw llyfr, o'r ffordd i'r ffordd. Felly, mae'r ffordd yn cyfyrdd. Fyddwn i'n ffordd i'n cael ei wneud am yr ydyn nhw, ac yn y ddod yr ydyn nhw, yn y ddod y chyfnodol yn y bodr hyn. Felly, eich rwyf yn dweud. OK. So, the topic of my speech is liberty through literature. I've got a few things I want to talk about today. The first is a message. It's an ideological message. And here's the ideological message. We have won the ideological war. I think this year is a fantastic year, 2012. 1912, Ludwig van Meesies puts out a theory of money and credit. And over the next hundred years we've gone on as an Austrian movement to win this ideological battle. So I'm going to take it as red that we have won the ideological battle. We just have a small problem, though. We have a room here with some people in it. We have a few islands around the world. We've got Auburn, Alabama. We've got wherever Doug Casey happens to be. Acapulco in Mexico. We've got a few islands of sanity, of reality. But the rest of the world is suffering from a mass Stockholm syndrome of believing in the state. But 99.9% of people believe in the state. So although we've won the ideological battle with fantastic books by Professor Hopper, by Murray Rothbard, by Ludwig van Meesies, Professor Salerno, and many other people, we're only speaking to a very, very small section of society. So what I'd like to try and get going today is a movement where we move away from non-fiction books. We move away from arguing philosophy and history and all those really important things. And some of us who aren't capable of doing that, who haven't got the thinking power to do that, try another kind of writing, and that would be fiction writing. So as an experiment, a good friend of mine is by the pool working on his tan at the moment, he's written a very good close personal friend of mine. He's written this book as an experiment. I thought I'd try an experiment and write a fiction novel myself to see if it's possible to create this new genre, which I'm going to call Rothbardian novels, but we might come up with a better name later, such as Freedom Novels or even Laissez Faire novels. We could even call these things. Where we take the wonderful ideas of Meesies and Rothbard and Hopper and we kind of embed them and insinuate them into fiction and into literature and try to persuade people to come to us through literature rather than through heavy-handed books. So many, many years ago, my first experience of Austrianism was by reading Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, a quite dense book and we've got the four-hour John Godd speech at the end of the book. There was one word in it which brought me to the Austrian school and that was Meesies, it's mentioned once near the end of the book. I just thought, who's this Meesies character? I got Meesies books out and I went straight to human action. So my first Austrian book was human action, sort of going in right at the deep end. But how did I get there? I got there through reading Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. So if some of us here can also write in that way and we can put our own ideas into our own novels and we can create the kinds of things that people read on planes, on trains and wherever they are. What do people do when they're on planes and trains? They're reading kindles and they're reading, they're escaping from the mad world that we live in by going into fiction and by going into books and by going into novels and getting away from the madness that surrounds all the rest of the time. So they're a little island and maybe if we can get into the island ourselves then we can help them, draw them to the non-fiction books that the human actions and the man economies and states and democracies have got that fail by writing really good fiction which draws them in that particular way. Now I just wanted to talk as well about the benefits of writing. For those of us here who aren't going to write a great Austrian philosophy book what are the benefits of writing if you actually go for this? The first thing you do is you'll create a creative milestone for yourself as an individual. So if Sean, you were to write a book, I'd love to see that book. I mean it would be called The Singapore Trader or The Expatriot, that would be a great title for a novel. What a fantastic idea that would be. I would love to read that book just by thinking of that idea. But if you did do that, that would be a creative milestone for you to create that idea. There are some other benefits as well to doing this. One of the key things is you develop a sense of marketing. You develop a perpetual income stream. You can be anywhere in the world writing. You can be on a beach in Thailand writing and selling your books and selling your ideas, moving around. You don't need to be tied into any one place. So if anywhere like the city of London goes down or wherever you happen to be goes down you could always go somewhere else and still have this income stream going. I think that's a good thing as well. The other thing as well is your books could be taken into movies. If you're really successful you can move into doing screenplays. You can do all sorts of ideas, things tied to your work, tied to your novels, which could enhance us as well and draw people into the Austrian school by your creative processes. Now if anyone is interested in writing a novel there is a process to it which applied, well my friend, my good friend Jack England applied when he was writing this book here. It's actually a lot easier than you think it would be. The only thing it does require though is time and a commitment to doing it and completing the book. So the first part of the process is to take two ideas and bring them together. One good idea, another good idea, you bring those two ideas together and then you'll see the story in front of you and then you basically work and chip away and create the stories there already from these two ideas and you chip away and you create the novel. There's usually three drafting processes. So the first draft you just write it out in full without stopping. You just keep going, you keep writing, you don't stop. You don't correct, you don't go back. So if anyone here has ever tried a novel try to write a novel or write a piece of fiction. What most people do is they get stuck and they go back and they try to rewrite it and rewrite it but you mustn't do that when you're writing a novel. You must just go through the whole process from the start to the end and just get to the end. Then you do a rewrite process and then you probably need an editor as well to help you craft the book afterwards as well so need to get a trusted friend who can help you create the novel. Now the interesting thing after that is reading some of Jeff Tucker's work and James Alcher and Fred Reid on lourockwell.com. One thing we've got to get away from is going through the publishing industry, going through the mainstream media. What will happen there is they tend to lock up your rights, they tend to take your book ideas off you, they tend to lock them away and they might publish you for a couple of years and if you stop making the sales they'll take your books off all the outlet streams. If you control your novels yourself, you publish them yourself so something like Create Space or you go through independent publishing then keep control of the copyright and then market the things yourself, get marketing help in and then keep control of everything and it'd be a really good exercise in learning how to market learning how to push your ideas into the world and again, helping you develop this income stream and helping you take control of all of your work. The idea is that we try to use fiction to capture the world one kindle at a time. So if you take a random hundred people on trains and planes, if we can just get them to be reading your stuff, your fantastic work on a kindle and through that fiction, through those ideas we can direct them into these other greater books, the non-fiction books, the male economy and state and so on and the human action and using our new genre, our new freedom novels genre. Now there's been a problem in the past with something like Without the Shrugged or with 1984. They're quite grim books, they're quite dystopian. I think what we need to do if we're going to go down this path as individuals is write books which have hope in them. Too many of these books like 1984 are very unhopeful. We have Winston Smith at the end, Loving Big Brother and all those kinds of things. Without the Shrugged as well. It was never really finished. John Galt's on a helicopter going to New York or Washington and we never ever see what happens next because you get stuck because with Einran being a believer in the state she got stuck. I think she couldn't say what John Galt would do to recover the world. That's why she was maybe unable to write a sequel to that book and why many of her objectivist followers have been unable to write a sequel to that book because if you use the method of the state then things are going to go wrong. So our books are going to have the ideas of freedom, complete freedom and a complete voluntary society but they'll be full of hope. They'll be full of forward thinking, optimism and hopefully people will be kind of switched on then to those ideas from those novels. So that's my kind of plan is to try and encourage you to hopefully encourage you to write if you can't write a really great Austrian non-fiction book maybe to write a fiction book and to try to capture the world in that particular way. Okay, that's pretty much everything I've got to say so thank you very much. By the way, there are copies of this available in the 4A. Yes Kurt? You know, I'm an objectivist for someone in your character captain where I believe this is a kind of thing for a short story of how people get for a short story of how people get started and how people can write a short story through black pages. Yes, people can do whatever mechanism they want to do but I think with the kindle experience I think people want to get into a deep experience when they're reading they want to lose the world and they want to go into a deep experience and get carried away for 8, 9, 10, 15, 20 hours just to escape this strange world that we live in. So I would think that maybe writing novels rather than short stories would be a good thing here. It is a hard piece of work to go along with a novel the first draft is probably going to take 3 months and I would find that one of the best ways of doing it is to almost be in a dreamlike state to let the unconscious part of your mind take over. So if we've got four parts of the mind I'll just go through these now. If we look at the brain there are four thinking segments in the brain so the link there by the corpus callosum and the hippocampal commissure there this is the left brain here this is the right brain there we've got the logic brain there we've got the kind of creative mind there we've got the kind of social brain here and we've got the kind of doing things part of the brain there and what we've got to do when you write is to link all four of these areas together and let them all come through so to get to the kind of creative bit the best book I think is by Stephen King it's on writing and what Stephen King suggests is that when you're writing you don't plan anything at all you just let it come through the unconscious mind so his technique is the first thing he does is he wakes up in the morning he's in a kind of a dreamlike state and in his dreamlike state he lets ideas flow from his unconscious and then those unconscious ideas go onto the page then he moves, so that would be the the kind of creative part of the brain letting his unconscious flow through there later on he applies logic to the books and he goes through and he adds colour and he adds sounds and he adds texture and he adds a sense of time and he adds various other things now one of the best books for doing that it's a bit cheesy to talk about it's how to write a damn good novel it's why I got it called Ian Frey so that would be a really good thing to another good book to get hold of if you're really fancy doing this huge creative thing get hold of that book too so use the Stephen King book on writing to format your ideas from your unconscious mind let them flood onto the page and then go through the second draft using the ideas in Ian Frey's this is the kind of thing that an editor would do as well this scene's in the wrong place, put it in this place this character needs more development that kind of thing now the doing part of the brain here this is the kind of rules falling part of the brain there's one essential book that everyone should get that's Strunk and White I think it's called Elements of Style and that just tells you rules of grammar so when you're writing from your unconscious in this half-dream-like state everything's rubbish, all the commas are in the wrong places and the words are in the wrong places and so on this book is brilliant and it's key phrases omit needless words so one thing you've got to do is be ruthless absolutely ruthless on cutting out stuff that's not necessary in fact you shouldn't even say not necessary that's two words, you should say unnecessary so you're constantly going through looking for anywhere where you can shrink things down so you don't say run quickly you say sprint constantly shrinking ideas and phrases and words down and then the bigger idea is putting the scenes in different orders and so on the final part of the writing process is the social process here which is in the kind of left low limbic system here in the brain this is just by just talking to people you must go out into the world and talk and relate to people and sit around pools late at night talking to Mr Tucker about his bow ties and things so that's the thing that you do that's the thing a lot of writers miss out they just sit in a little room with a Venetian blind down and they start writing fiction gets too insular so go out into the world meet people and talk use the read Stephen King's book he will help you unlock your mind and unlock your thinking and let you get your unconscious mind onto the page then use Ian Frey's book called how to write a damn good novel to add all the things in your text which is missing colour, sound sense of smell I'm very bad at the sense of smell I don't have a nose in my brain there's nothing there just go through and add add things she smelled of lavender she smelled of lilies I don't know why I'm talking about women and what they smell of but when a soldier is on a battlement and he's about to be killed by the Persians there's all sorts of other smells you can introduce there so I have to manually add those in and then go through this drunk and white elements of style and punch up that grammar and really tighten all that stuff together and if you go through these four processes in the brain and talk to people here as well then what you create is a really rich, deep full kind of text which has a lot of three dimensionality or four dimensionality to it you must add time, a sense of time to things as well so I think a novel is the best way to go rather than short stories I think it's it's a deeper experience we're trying to capture the world one kindle at a time so we need to get people really into the kindle that they're reading on to really capture their attention and if we can just slip in a few a few key phrases every now and again and we can pull them along, yes Can I ask you what's your position is on private property sorry, on intellectual property and depending on your answer whether you're a consultant or around age how do you actually offer a good pay to be able to Yes, it's a really interesting question I mean I'm the question was what's my standing on intellectual property am I a conzellian or a rendian I'm very much a conzellian that's another reason why I think we should go down the independent publishing route ourselves through all these wonderful technologies we've got if you just look up on Fred Reed's articles on New Rockwell or you look at James Alcher's articles on his blog site you'll find all sorts of really good long deep articles about self publishing about keeping control of your own stuff and the reason for that is to not let the publisher have the copyright because if the publisher gets the copyright first of all they'll give you a pittance they won't market you unless you're famous so they do two things, they get you into book stores and then they do a nice cover, everything else is down to you so if you can get yourself onto Amazon and various other outlets and you can get yourself a nice cover pay someone a few hundred dollars to give you a nice cover or do it yourself you've done everything the publisher is going to do for you and the problem with publishers is they will just pull your books off their bookshelves if it's not making enough money if you do it yourself you can sell your stuff forever and then you can hand that on as to the copyright thing itself I think what we have to do is we have to make it so attractive and so reasonably priced that no one needs to copy it or whatever so make your prices, that's why Kindle is such a good thing because you can charge $1.99, $2.99 you're not having to charge somebody $14.99 so just make it so distributable and so cheap that it's good the way you give it to them, they don't need to go they don't need to go to Pirate Bay or anywhere else and download elicit elicit according to the state so I'm very much a conzellian there and I don't think losing intellectual property prevents us from creating in fact I think it will create more stuff because if you look at music in England classical music in English to England died because of copyright that's why the only English composers we can think of were usually people from Germany who moved to England like Handel so all the Germany was fantastic because there was hundreds of Germanies there was no copyright so you got Beethoven you got Mozart, you got all these wonderful wonderful classical musicians because there was no copyright so I don't think that we would have a problem with losing copyright I think it would actually be more creative and then I could, if Sean wrote the fantastic book about the Singapore trader I could even take I could even write the sequel to it if he didn't without intellectual property or if, where's Vincent? if Vincent wrote the Accidental Belgian which I would love to read I could help him with that or I could take it on and I could extend it or if, Sandro, where are we? the life and loves of a perpetual traveller I mean what a book that would be I'd love to see that book I'd want to read it right now without intellectual property fine, he writes, he does it distribute it in a way that I don't need to go and steal it off Pyro Bay and I think things will be more creative like German classical music Geoffrey Thank you for your comments about copyright one important presentation of more recently obviously people are aware of what an evil scam copyright is and when they have a book they publish it on a system retaining the copyright issue to death and then only to discover later that they signed a contract in fact they only control the rights of the book while the publisher takes it out of print which never happens at all so you will not regain the rights of your own work 70 years after you're dead when everyone else can get it as well so it's not enough to regain the copyright because you can't sign a contract so that's the best thing to do so yes, independent publishers and self-publishing and publishing into it it should create the comments in a way in other words it's not enough to regain the copyright but make a couple of comments so that you can ensure your work is very market level there's also a widespread confusion that somehow the commercial ethos is compatible with copyright whereas publishing into the comments is somehow just definitely a work out of the world that's definitely okay and that's just wrong which I think you applied in your response so I'm not a conciliant I'm a tukarian if there's such a thing that exists