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The Fastest
Way to Write Your Book ISBN: 978-0955011603, 240 pages Paperback: £9.95 e-book: £6.95 In stock - available for immediate despatch
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Description
By learning the fastest ways to plan, write, edit and sell your books, you can knock months off the "traditional" methods, fill gaps in the market as soon as you spot them, beat your competitors into print, increase your chances of having a bestseller, sell a lot more books, make a lot more money, and get your freedom back (remember the time before you became a writer?) This book really could change your life.
If you're a professional writer who's dreading a rapidly approaching deadline, a few hours spent reading this book will have you tackling your book with renewed enthusiasm and vigour, and completing it in an amazingly short time. But it works for beginners too!
In today's busy world many people start writing books but never finish them because life gets in the way. Or it takes so long to write it that they get bored and give up - even though their book might make them a fortune if they could only finish it. Perhaps they never get around to writing their book at all because there's just never enough time. The Fastest Way to Write Your Book solves all of these problems for you.
Step-by-step, you'll learn everything you need to know to write professional full-length novels and non-fiction books in just a few days or weeks. And the same methods work for other forms of writing too, including short stories and articles, movie scripts, essays, business reports, academic papers and dissertations.
You'll learn the best and quickest ways to come up with great ideas, how to assemble them into an outline or plan, how to research and write your book in the shortest possible time, how to edit and polish your book to perfection, and the fastest ways to find an agent or publisher and sell your book.
There are also chapters on how to cheat(!), getting other people to help, using technology to make things easier, finding time to write, staying motivated, beating writer's block, and much more.
Don't think for a second that it can't be done or that the results will be poor. Many famous writers including Stephen King, Ray Bradbury, D.H. Lawrence, Ernest Hemingway and Jack Kerouac have written classic books in a matter of days or a few weeks at most. This book shows you exactly how they (and many others) did it, so you'll be able to do it too. You'll end up with exactly the same words as you would have written if you'd spent years writing and editing your book - but you'll get there at least ten times faster. And you don't even need a computer!
The author has personally tested every one of the methods in this book, updated them, refined them, and proved that they work. And then he added some extra methods of his own that you won't find anywhere else.
This is a book that no writer should be without, whatever their level of knowledge or experience.
Look inside
Table of contents
Chapter 1 - Introduction
Chapter 2 - Why write a book and why write it fast
About the author
Dave Haslett wrote his first book (a 300-page illustrated guide to tropical fish) at the age of 13 and has since written novels, non-fiction books, screenplays, articles, short stories, reviews, poetry, and a monthly column. If anyone needs The Fastest Way to Write Your Book, it's Dave himself!
He is the founder of ideas4writers (the popular ideas and inspiration website) and i4w2 (the award-winning ethical publishing service).
Dave is available to give talks and workshops on a variety of writing-related subjects. He also writes articles on writing-related subjects, some of which you can read here.
He is married to Kate, has two daughters, and lives in Devon, UK.
Customer reviews
Eileen Frost, Dorset:
"I found The Fastest Way to Write Your Book one of the best and easiest writing manuals there is. In plain language, with no frills, it does exactly what it sets out to do, and that is to instill self-discipline into the writer. Finding ideas for your story, planning, researching, editing and selling - it's all there. Writers block? Read chapter 16. Can't find the time to write? See chapter 8. A great book and although I've read it from cover to cover, I still refer to it constantly."Christobel Gardner, Coventry:
"What a gem this book is. With the help of this book I finished my novel. It is so easy to follow being laid out logically, with no parts of it difficult to understand. I was hooked from the research, through the planning, to the actual writing, and found the section on 'finding time to write' easy to put into practice. This book is my bible."Patricia Livingston, Merseyside:
"I have read so many books on how to write a book but this is the first that sets out clearly the steps needed. As a writer I am not very organised. Ideas whizz in and around my mind but I don't always take the steps I need to capture these ideas before they escape. This book takes you through the whole process of writing a book from idea to finished product, including a section on selling your book. It makes you want to start now and stick with it until the end. My book is progressing nicely. Thanks Dave."
C. Devlin, Belfast:
"This is one of those books that makes claims to help aspiring writers. I believe that it does exactly as it says on the tin. I bought this book recently and already I have two short stories written and an article away to the Guardian. The book is written in user friendly style. The book begins with advice on your chair and writing desk through to producing a book per month. All the steps are laid out in an easy and fun format. There are time and money saving tips in info boxes throughout the book. At the end of the book Dave Haslett provides a voucher for his website www.ideas4writers.co.uk. Visit the site and get a feel for the depth of information and assistance provided by Dave. I recommend this book and know you will not be disappointed. It will become your writing handbook."W. Mather, Milton Keynes:
"This book speaks to your writing soul - it's time to get that book out, you can do this, and it won't be torture! The positive enthusiasm for what can be done and the practical focus on how to do it are Dave Haslett's injections of energy, belief and determination to ensure that you feel the difference between your longing to write that book and actually doing it. And he gives you a mindset that is open to ever greater possibilities of how you can be a successful and prolific author. Magical!"
Bonuses
This includes access to more than 5,000 ready-made ideas, 3,000 what ifs, online software (writing engines) that creates stories and characters automatically, friendly forums where you can chat with other writers and have your work critiqued, exclusive articles, and much more. [more details]
Most of the information in the book will never go out of date, but some details will inevitably need updating from time to time. We'll keep the book updated each time we reprint it (usually every 6 months). But you won't have to buy a new copy because we've also created a special "updates" web page just for this book. You'll find the address on page 222 of the book.
If you have a technical question, want help or advice on writing your book, need a point from the book explained in more detail, need some motivation or encouragement, or just need someone to talk through your ideas with, you can email Dave at any time after buying the book, and he'll get back to you as soon as he can.
Your guarantee
If, having read the book, you don't believe that you could obtain the results stated using the methods described in the book, just return your copy to us and we'll give you a full refund.
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