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THE “NO SHIT THERE I WAS” BOOK compiled by Douggs

Hello my friends and everyone else,
I would like to start collaborating for the final book in my three book series that I have been writing and I need your help!

The first book is a tongue in cheek autobiography about my twisted life and its called “CONFESSIONS OF AN IDIOT”

The second book is detailed interviews with 16 remarkable friends throughout the Australian skydiving/base jumping scene and is called “ALL MY BEAUTIFUL FRIENDS”

The final book is not an original idea but it will make for some crazy reading. It is simply called “NO SHIT… THERE I WAS”
I want to compile a hundred crazy, but true stories from everyone that has been a part of skydiving or base jumping. Whether you have 1 jump or 10,000 jumps, it doesn’t matter, as long as you have a crazy story. It can be one paragraph or 10 pages. It can be about skydiving or base jumping or anything crazy that happened at a party or a car accident or anything. It can be of life or death or just something silly. I don’t want to set any guidelines and it can be written however you like with as much swearing and crass shit as you like. Write like you were telling it to a group of mates at a party when your wasted. I don’t care. It just needs to be crazy, scary, twisted, funny or all of the above and more.

I would also like to get stories of “Did you hear what this dude did…” or “You wouldn’t believe what I heard…” these are always some of the most entertaining, crazy and funniest stories around.
I have finished written the first book, am half way through the second and really want to get started on the third.
If it gets published, each person in it will receive a copy.
Please send your stories through to my email douggs@basedreams.com
And please include your full name, nick name or alias and a contact email or phone number.
Please also pass this email on to every crazy dude or chick you have ever met. Im not doing this for cash but rather to try and give people a little insight into how twisted, crazy and amazing our lives are.
I know there are a million cool stories out there, so please give up 30 minutes of your time and make this happen.
Shine on
douggs

Hey are any of the first books already available? And if yes, where?

not yet bro,
i have sent the first one off to a publisher to get checked out. was hopeing to release that one first and then the next 2 together. its a lot of work so its a bit of a long term project. should be a good end product though and it is keeping me off the streets and causing chaos
cheers
douggs

Hey okey thanks. Let me know when the first one comes out. I bet it'd be an interesting read.

NickDG has a ton of BASE stories. They are always fun and interesting to read. It's been a while, though... I can see myself almost begging: "Nick, tell us one of your old stories, pretty please?" I could see him starting it with something like "all right, ya little rascals, garther 'round... "

Dang, now I wanna go find that thread again...

There were also a few amusing stories on dz.com, I believe from waltappel. The thread is here:
http://www.dropzone.com/...rum.cgi?post=1965638

not trying to hijack the thread, but, i heard, back in the day, that a spectator @ bd asked someone to borrow their gear & jumped hh, uneventfully, with out instruction - only have watched

i thought BS
but
it could happen . . .

sweet as bro...keep all that type of stuff coming. can you put that into an email for me
cheers
douggs

i don't know that it's true (it's defiantly NO SHIT)

i was trying to confirm the hear-say here

hey bro,
no stress about confirming this stuff, im all about having a good yarn with stuff like this. can you email me your details or alias so i can include it mate.
i have had a great response to the book idea so far so please everyone keep the stories and tales coming. the crazier and more horrific the better. 430 people have checked this thread so far which means that there is at least 860 tales to be told by you guys.
thanks to you all
cheers
douggs

I think you have a good idea there Douggs I have been thinking of something along the same lines although I was going to give all the proceeds back to the BASE community for their stories. I envisioned the money be put into a legal access fund or rescue fund or something like that.
Or maybe that's what you had planned all along right

i thought i would probably lose money on it like the dvds ive done.
im not a business man