Bryan Conley showcases bitter-sweet prosein his first literary work “Writing a Book, Hippie?”The story tells a true and adventurous journeyof a young man’s trek to Alaska’s Inside Passage.Vonnegut writes, "I hope you are happy having written your book, it is a good book."The completed inspiration derives itselfsome 20 years later after recent, less fortunateadventures occur, for which Conley provides hisaudience a sense of time travel by using dream states referred to as ‘series of million year naps’. While the story builds, fragile social angles attachthemselves with unequalled imagination for the reader. The apparent suggestions and looksprovide a personal understanding of a larger picture. His contemporary insight into tragedy, kindness,and the undeniable over analysis featured frontto back deliver this unique take on contemplatingthe human condition in a traditional beat poet style.