Writer’s Block Is A Crock: Write A Book In 3 Weeks – Or Less!

Can You Write A Book In 3 Weeks – Or Less? I know a lot about you. Over the years of giving this seminar in 25 major cities throughout the United States and Canada, I have found there are three categories of people who attend my seminars and buy my DVDs and Books on Writer’s Block Is A Crock: Write A Book In 3 Weeks – Or Less! Apart from educators and those who claim they are ‘simply curious’ you will fit into one of the following three categories: You are: 1. A published author, with books in bookstores 2. A newspaper or magazine journalist (freelance or staff) 3. A frightened hopeful – scared that you cannot really write a book at all! And wishing with all your heart that you could. Surprise! Whichever one you are, you can write a book in three weeks – or less! 1. Published Author A Harvard Physician with several books already to his credit attended my New York seminar on this subject. He thanked me profusely for giving him exactly the tools he needed to speed-up his writing – BECAUSE in medical writing, ‘whoever-gets-published-first’ on a breakthrough or theory can bask in the acclaim and may get rich from licensing it. If you are a published author, you already know that money is the name of the game in publishing and since time is money, learning how to speedwrite is a key to increasing your success. As a published author, you are looking for new techniques to shorten your writing time – and in today’s competitive market, you are wise to do so. 2. Journalist If you are a journalist, you already have a lot going for you because you have been published, which shows you have good writing skills. And you are probably pretty fast at stringing sentences together with a punch. You also know how to gather and to condense information into the most important elements and to put it together quickly. But every journalist I have ever known secretly nurses a book idea. Most want to write a novel they have been thinking about. Others want to tackle an issue in a nonfiction book. The thorn-in-the-flesh for most journalists is that while nursing a book idea for years, they think they cannot take time away from their bread and butter writing as a journalist. They think they don’t have time. So, if you are a journalist, wishing you could write a book as quickly as you write an article, you will see in the Skills chapters in this book that now you can in a simple, easy way. 3. Scared Hopeful Don’t worry, if you fit into this category of being a scared hopeful, rest assured, you can find help in these pages – because – I began exactly that way. I was a scared hopeful, too! I know what it is like to have a dream that you don’t even have the confidence to call hope…that is just a tiny wish, filled with longing. A wish you are afraid to acknowledge because it does not seem possible that you can really write a book. So, if you are scared to even hope…to even wish…to even imagine being a writer…let me point out that because you are reading this book, right now - that something inside you knows that you have ideas of value to share in writing. Isn’t that great? Something inside you ‘believes in you’ or you would not be reading this book now. There are a lot of other activities you could be doing this very minute – but you are not doing any of them. You are reading this book at this moment – and that means a mustard seed or a tiny spark of interest (which is all it takes) believes or wants to believe that you can write a book. And, my writer friend, that is ALL you need. Just the teeniest, tiniest sort-of-wish, or scared hope – plus speedwriting skills, which I will teach you – that is all you need to take you from reading this book to writing a book of your very own. I know, because that is where I started. I know, because no one – not you, not anyone – could have had less confidence, less faith, and more doubt and fear than I had. You cannot start lower than I did – so wherever you are; you are starting at a better point – which is great. Can you write a book in 3 weeks – or less? A resounding ‘Yes!’