How To Write A Book This Weekend, Even If You Flunked English Like I Did
By Vic Johnson
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It’s easier than you think!
Best-selling author Vic Johnson actually wrote this book in a weekend to prove how easy it is. And he gives you step-by-step detail of everything he did, including the resources he uses to turn out content-rich books in no time at all.
How To Write a Book This Weekend is a perfect strategy for first-time book writers who have been discouraged by the thought of pounding out words for months at a time.
Inside these pages you’ll learn:
* Where to find idea “factories” that allow you to “crowdsource” the hottest trending topics.
* The little-known secrets used by a 19th century Russian immigrant to sell over 100 million print books.
* The “can’t fail” method of choosing a title that makes your book irresistible to prospective buyers.
* A “backdoor” Google code that will instantly reveal a treasure trove of valuable research material for your book.
* The magic method that eliminates writers block and produces top quality content in a fraction of the time of other methods.
Please note: This method has had proven success on many occasions when applied to non-fiction books. It may or may not be useful for fiction writers.
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Reviews for How To Write A Book This Weekend, Even If You Flunked English Like I Did
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5So out of date it’s barely useable. And the first link in the book takes you to a dangerous spam site.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Pretty good.
Simple to follow, with step by step guide.
It might not be suitable for advanced writers, or those that aspire to write a masterpiece. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Vic Johnson here recommends (among other very important things) recording your book and having a typist transcribe it, multiple editors edit it, and multiple proofreaders proof it. I've read similar advice from fiction author Kevin J Anderson, so there's some more corroboration for this way of authoring a book.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Good book. I like the ideas that it presents. I like that it gets to the point. No long introductions about the author and the background. Good ideas up front and ready to go. Easy read. took about 30 min to read the book but presented an interesting approach to writing and marketing. I think looking for the keywords is a brilliant idea. Good read.
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How To Write A Book This Weekend, Even If You Flunked English Like I Did - Vic Johnson
HOW TO WRITE A BOOK THIS WEEKEND, EVEN IF YOU FLUNKED ENGLISH LIKE I DID
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Introduction
Chapter 1: Be a Good Scout and Be Prepared
Chapter 2: Pick a Niche and a Topic
Chapter 3: Choose a Working Title
Chapter 4: Researching the Topic
Chapter 5: Outline the Topic, or List the Steps in Logical Order
Chapter 6: Create Notes with Additional Research Time
Chapter 7: Create an Audio Recording
Chapter 8: Have the Recording Transcribed
Chapter 9: Edit the Transcription
Chapter 10: The Finishing Touches
Chapter 11: What’s Next?
Now What?
Resources
About the Author
How to Get a Good Audio Recording
INTRODUCTION
You can write a book this weekend. How can I be so certain? Because the book you’re reading now was written in a weekend. And the techniques I used to do it are easily duplicatable by anyone who follows these simple instructions.
For 30 years or more I wanted to write a book, and I think many others -- USA Today says as many as 82% -- also share that dream. But every time I’d think about writing a book I’d conjure an image of Ernest Hemingway pounding away on his Corona 3 typewriter in the wee hours of the morning, accompanied by his ever-present half-empty bottle of scotch. So that was always a block to me, because I never could see myself doing that.
Fortunately I came up with an alternative, which is what I’m going to share with you here.
Why I’m Qualified to Write This Book
The biggest reason is because I’ve actually done what I’m teaching here. I’ve done it successfully and I’ve done it more than once. At the risk of sounding immodest, my success would say I’m an ‘expert’ in how to do it.
If it helps you in any way to believe that you can do what I’ve done, let me also point out that I flunked English in college. Many of my sentences end in prepositions, which I guess is a no-no. I’m prone to use a lot of slang and put commas in the wrong places – if I use them at all. But I try to communicate as if I’m physically speaking to my reader. And since I’m a true Southern boy, my grammar is decidedly at odds with educators and those who think language is more about style than substance.
I didn’t arrive at this point without my share of obstacles and heartbreaks. Seventeen years ago I wasn’t getting ready to write a book in a weekend. I was packing up my belongings after a judge evicted us from our home and gave us just 48 hours to find another place to live, even though we had nowhere to go and no money.
A year later our last automobile was repossessed, and I had made a whopping $14,027 for the year, which placed our family of five below the federal poverty level. (I’ve since earned more money than that in a month from my books, which has never been more than a part-time effort.)
Altogether I’ve authored eight books (I use the term ‘authored’ instead of ‘written,’ because none of them were written in the traditional sense that one associates with book writers, like my earlier example of Hemingway). One of my books has sold more than 75,000 copies, and has been translated into