💬 If Rolling in Doh were a publishing imprint, what would your imaginary book title be?
Community Doh prompt inspired by Patrick Geary's imaginary library ✨📚✨
“Fearless writing is the willingness and ability to choose your writing path,
and write as your authentic self.”
—Beth Kempton, The Way of the Fearless Writer
Right after I read this passage, pausing to underline its relevance to my intentions here at Doh,
tagged me in his post, Self Helped.1 He writes:“My favorite kind of self-help book is the kind that gives it all away in the title . . . I love buying these books as much as I love never reading them. In fact, my brilliant best friend and I have an imaginary library that is filled to the brim with scholarly tomes of self-evident self-help.
We publish new titles with reckless abandon as our lives deliver perfectly tailored morsels of pithy comical insight, and our launches are inevitably greeted with guffaws. We laugh because it is ludicrous to think that a single sentence could meaningfully shift our perspective on life, and we laugh even harder because it does.”
Thus, he launched his imaginary self-evident self-help book with only a cover, no manuscript needed:
I want to frame this and put it on my wall! Years ago, I contemplated writing a book titled, coincidentally, Self Helped, on how I was retiring from tirelessly reading that genre, declaring myself sufficiently “helped” and thus self-accepted, no longer a problem to be solved.
In 2010, my friend
and I purchased the domain YesYouBook.com in advance of our imaginary satirical self-help tome titled, “Yes . . . You!” proclaiming that whatever it is you dream about, Yes . . . YOU! can do it too!
Now I would love to hear from you—Yes . . . You!—building on our earlier Community Doh discussion threads:2
If Rolling in Doh were an imprint under Obvious Wisdom Publishing, what would your imaginary book title be?
What would make you laugh? Bring comfort? Poke fun at business bromides?
💬 Let us know in the comments :)
Note: These are for paid subscribers only, so that Doh’ers can feel more secure in sharing, knowing the stories and comments aren’t Google-searchable. I would love for you to join us!
View earlier discussion prompts—and weigh in any time, it’s never too late!—here:
💬 Community Doh: Discussion Prompts
Every six weeks, we open up a discussion thread related to that month’s posts. These comment threads are for paid subscribers only—that means only paying doh’ers can read and reply to comments. Hopefully that gives you an extra dash of courage for sharing your story (as it does for me), knowing they aren’t Google searchable or directly out in public view.
"How......In The Hell?"
"Heaven Never Waits"
" Here - Now" or "Hear Now" or "Beer Now"
"Open Your Eyes (and your life will follow)"
"YOU.........ROCKET !!!"
"Quantum Lust" or "Quantum Dust In The Wind"
"Coffee....Or Not"
"Empirical Hips"
"We're Stoopid and Contagious"
"Find Your Keys"
You Are the Expert (on You)
Your Guide to Grief: Feel What You Feel When You Feel It