The collective

[Antwan]

Hey guys, so I want to get into writing more.
Going to look into taking some classes and what not.
I've always been told I was good at it, in the past year I've had one writing published in a book of essays.
It was about my experience with the newyork skate scene.
It goes deeper than this though, skateboarding has and still shapes who I am.
I've always looked at interviews with people in places I aspire to reach being an invaluable resource.
I often watch one in the morning when I get up and have some coffee.
I had never seen an interview with richie jackson and watched about 2 hours of him and another guy shooting the shit at General life evaluation and relation to skateboarding.
I was shocked at how much I could relate to his trick process.
He said a lot in 2 hours so I won't go into all of it.
So my reason in posting this is to see where you guys are at with it.
If you would like to contribute some ideas to a potential book Id be more than happy to take it on.
The way I skate has changed as my life has changed, but it is still the same thing.
The determination, the drive, the building tool for something higher.
It has been an escape from what's bad in my life but also I seem to have entered an alternate demension.
Everything is the same there but the view of everything shifted almost immediately.
If you know me by now my thoughts are always heavily jumbled so that's why I need some writing classes it demands structure haha.
Stories about skating, outlook on it, what is it when you break it down?
I would love to hear from you guys.
I really dig the idea of a collaborative writing about this kind of stuff.
It would really help flesh this type of project out and give it more value for sure.
Not financially speaking, just something that's for skaters by skaters.

Update
It was Brought to my attention that a published book should compensate its writers and I agree. Anything you guys want to share will be taken in but not used until I figure how to compensate everyone, I'm leaning toward PayPal as an idea.
I'm already writing heavily, have two local skaters on board and reached out to one local skateshop.