James Duthie

There's some that are really silly, you know, sort of immature hockey locker room type stories.

A lot of pranks.

But they're funny pranks.

I was actually worried there was a few too many, a lot of guys told me prank stories.

And when I was finishing the book, I'm like, maybe I got a couple too many prank stories in here, but yeah.

You know, I'm not going to throw – these were the stories the guys wanted to tell me, so so be it.

But, you know, you want to have some that are more serious, you know, maybe heartwarming or motivational.

And you want to have some sort of mix in there that – when I read books, I like to open – you know, if it's a book like this where it's a compilation, I like to be surprised on every page and have something different.

So that's the kind of way when I –

when I put together Certified Beauties that, you know, you might have something completely ridiculous and then the next chapter might make you cry.

And that was, I think, the goal.

It's funny.

I'll tell you one little secret I've never told anybody.

It's always a struggle for me.

I don't think about the order of the stories until I have all the stories done.

And I'm so, this is probably the dumbest way to do it.

There's probably a technology that I could have done this using AI or something, but I literally take a giant piece of paper and

and I write the chapters and then I cut or rip out the papers.

So I have, let's say there was 60 chapters or 60 stories in this book and I have them written on a little slice piece of paper and I sit them down on like the kitchen table

And I sit there and go, okay, this one, then this one, then this one, then this one.