What sort of author Ricky actually is

• Ricky is a synthetic author of lived frameworks.
• He is not a novelist, textbook writer, motivational author, or pure memoirist.

He writes to compress lived experience, pattern recognition, failure, revision, and reorientation into portable forms.

His books are meant to be returned to, dipped into, and argued with, not consumed once.

He sits closer to aphorism, essay, and framework-building than to any single genre.

What Ricky is not

• An expert speaking from formal authority.
• A guru with answers.
• A universal self-help author.
• A detached philosopher.
• A productivity maximalist.
• A therapist writing under another name.
• A fiction author pretending non-fiction neutrality.

Implying any of these invites distrust, projection, or disappointment.

What his authorship actually does

• Distils experience without pretending it generalises cleanly.
• Preserves ambiguity rather than resolving it artificially.
• Uses repetition as reinforcement, not filler.
• Treats insight as provisional.
• Accepts contradiction as part of truth.
• Builds frameworks that invite interpretation, not obedience.
• Values resonance over persuasion.

This is authorship aimed at orientation, not instruction.

Background: How I Started Writing Books

At school I had some raw ability, but my spelling and grammar were atrocious. They are still not perfect, though writing more than twenty-five books has forced real improvement. Early on, I could not bring myself to write an article or an essay, let alone a book. The idea felt impossible and overwhelming, even though I knew I had plenty of raw material in my head.

So I talked a lot about writing and did very little of it.

What finally got me started was making funny memes for Facebook. I produced enough of them to realise that if I doubled my output, I could assemble them into a book. That became my first. Clearing that psychological hurdle mattered more than the quality of the work. I then wrote seven more books in the same way.

They were humorous at first, then I wrote a more serious book built around principles for life. Even then, essays and articles still felt out of reach. I could only manage short fragments, either insights I had gleaned or pieces of humour.

Journalling changed that. I began stringing sentences together and did so consistently for two years. Those entries eventually became a book. Somewhere along the way, the block lifted. I started writing articles and essays, along with poetry and other short forms.

I still have not written a textbook or a conventional novel with a tightly sequenced narrative. My journal writing, however, developed a natural arc through the personal growth that occurred during that period.

Most of my books are built the same way. I write many small pieces first, then construct the narrative afterwards by categorising them or arranging them along a timeline. It is not clever, but it works.