Mookie Spitz dives headfirst into his manic creative process — from obsessively shaping his sci-fi novel Jonnie Fazoolie & the Transfinite Reality Engine into rigid three-line paragraphs, to pulling off an audacious stunt: tweeting out the entire damn book, line by line, every hour, for 200 days.

This is part confessional, part masterclass in embracing constraints to spark creativity. Mookie breaks down why arbitrary rules (like limiting prose to OCD-tight paragraphs) forced his writing to be sharper, more playful, and weirdly alive — a strategy born from wrestling with his own tendency to ramble into oblivion.

He also gets into the nuts and bolts: transforming his manuscript from Google Docs to Notepad to Excel to CSV, reverse-ordering 4,800 lines, then using Publer to spray them across Twitter. All so his novel can live (backward!) on X, like Borges on methamphetamine.

More than that, his pod is a sermon on the sheer joy of making something just because. No market strategy. No guarantees. Just the luxurious bloviation of a writer entertaining himself — and inviting you to watch, laugh, and maybe catch some of that reckless creative fever.

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