Short monologue from a YouTube video in which the speaker recounts finishing a brutal early draft of a book before entering prison. The speaker contrasts the hardships of writing with being separated from family during incarceration, calls separation from wife and children the hardest part, and suggests prison can provide discipline and spiritual/mental help.
So I started writing the book on my own. I wanted to finish it before I went to prison. I did finish it before I went to prison. But it was the first draft. Draft that was brutal. I mean, it wasn't really the first draft. It was probably the third or fourth, but it was. It was just brutal. What's harder, going to prison or writing a book?
You could write a book with your family. You can't go to prison with your family. So it was definitely the hardest part about prison was being separated from my wife and children. Other than that, it's not that hard. In fact, I'd suggest it. Anybody that needs to get in shape.
Spiritual help or mental help, go to prison. Not Joshua Tree, go to prison. I'm telling you, it will work.
