Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #58965 in Books
• Published on: 2001-02-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• 57 pages

Customer Reviews

Withholding udgement
Swift shipping. For all the hype I was surprised at the "Kinko's" type of publishing. Bargain basement for what I was led on online marketing ploy. That said, The content is excellent. Follow the professor's bluepront and getting published looks more likely. I'll "buy that." hmmmm, I did, didn't I? It was worth it.

dis-a-POINT-ed
I'm not at all bothered by the spiral binding--it's what's inside that counts. And what's inside is written in an upbeat, sparkling, conversational, encouraging way. However, it's for beginners. There's little here I haven't been told by many other teachers, so I feel the littlest bit bamboozled. I was hoping for insider tips on how to turn into Agatha Christie and write my book in 40 days. Melton's answer is meat & potatoes: sit down and grind it out. Don't stop for meals or Sunday school. If you live in a cabin in primitive Alaska, you can do this. If you have a household to run, disabled husband, fulltime job, 6 llamas, 4 grandchildren, and bill collectors at the door, it's trickier. I will look further and somewhat more skeptically...

both simple and brilliant
There are so many books on getting published, so many on writing outlines and proposals and plans for writing. And so many other books that empathize with writers about how hard it is to write.

This book does not empathize about anything. This book offers some feedback about planning and about publishing. But the true priceless value of this book is the way in which it makes it possible to write a book in 40 days. Just write it, usuing the process in this book, and revise it later. With the help of this book, my writing goals (which are numerous) are being realized. Seriously, this book is a gem. Just be prepared for the plastic binding.