July 2006


 

 


 
 

Stop Killing Your Book Dream with Wrong Thinking!
by Earma Brown

Write your best book now! Have you been guilty of procrastinating on your book project, lately? Like the author, many writers get hung up with wrong thinking about writing and completing their books.

Knowledge and know-how can be formed into nine easy steps that will destroy the power of procrastination. Using the amazingly easy steps below writers can conquer the giant procrastination and speedily write their best book now:

1. Act Now. Action will paralyze fear each and every time.

2. Avoid marathon writing. Know you don't have to become a hermit to write and complete a successful book.

3. Commit to the tracking approach. Doing a set amount even if it's only an hour- each day builds a cumulative effect.

4. Know you don't have to write chapters in order. You can jump around and fill in the blanks to gain momentum.

5. Maintain your momentum. Don't give in to writers block. Move on to work on the chapter you feel passion bubbling for at that moment.

6. Rewrite & Re-organize. Be a professional. Don't be lazy and save all the editing for your editor. Make your manuscript the best it can be.

7. Learn to Delegate. Don't succumb to the idea that you have to do it all yourself if you want it done right. Discern your talents and delegate the rest. Let go faster and profit sooner.

8. Work Efficiently. Embrace technology. If you don't know how something works, find out. Take a class. Read articles. Learn how to use your software to make things easier and faster.

9. Print Out & Back Up Daily. Don't believe a computer crash can never happen to you. Save your work somewhere besides your computer hard drive - floppy disk, cd, DVD. Make a hard copy of your manuscript. Print out changes as you work.

Even so, nothing can happen until that first draft is completed. Procrastination is ultimately based on fear of failure. It has stopped countless of book projects and stolen the vision of many more. Don't allow procrastination to become a giant towering over your book dreams. Go now; sign-up for a free course, pin-point your topic, write your table of contents or simply write your first draft. Whatever you do, do it now and release your important message to the world. Best wishes for your greatest success yet.

© Earma Brown, 11-year author, entrepreneur, web developer
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Love Letters to Missouri - A Kept Promise
by Gary M. Babler

Love Letters from Missouri is a human interest story of a young Missouri doctor, Dr. Samuel Ayres, who joined the general exodus of 1850 to the gold fields of California in the pursuit of riches. As promised to his wife, Samuel faithfully writes letters describing his day-to-day adventures of the trail, including brief encounters with Indians, successful treatment of numerous chases of cholera along the Platte river, among many other adventures.

Following only one actual day of labor in the gold fields, Dr. Ayres succumbed to illness and tragically dies November 19, 1850, six months and one week after his departure from his Missouri wife and family.

 

Sheer Buffoonery: How Hospitals Kill Patients
by Nurse X

Sheer Buffoonery: How Hospitals Kill Patients is a stunning, no-holds barred exposé on the hospital industry. For the first time ever, a nurse exposes the shocking mismanagement, sheer incompetence and raw greed in our nation's hospitals

Among the shocking revelations:

You need oxygen but the hospital didn't purchase enough oxygen flow regulators so you'll have to gasp on room air until your nurse manages to find one somewhere.

There is no security in a hospital, so the flasher in room 2108 was able to freely walk into your room in the middle of the night and expose himself to you.

...and many more.

 

Honey and Lime
by Peggy Carr

The themes are universal - love, loss, resistance, hope. The voice is distinctly Caribbean. The result is a soulful collection laced with power. These poems reflect the writer's deep engagement with her society and her skill in peeling away its layers to expose the core. This is a distillation of everyday human experience, related in language that ranges from stark simplicity to intricate imagery. Throughout the entire book, the poet's touch is delicate but sure.

 
 

A Healing
by James Woods

What if you leave the war but the war does not leave you? In “A Healing,” a new book by James Woods, a combat infantryman chronicles the aftermath of war. After arriving stateside from Korea in 1951, the leftovers of war become demons that haunt his life.

The carefree boy that went to war disappears, and the Veteran who returns home suffers from the exposure, mentally alone. Writing became an outlet for survival and a path to healing, welcoming the boy in him home after nearly 50 years.

 

The Millennium Find
by David Gene

Archeologists have made an amazing discovery of ancient Judeans of the First Century A.D. near the coast of Florida. Claims are made that one of the burials is that of Jesus of Nazareth. Questions arise. Are these in fact the remains of Jesus, and if, so how did they get to the New World? How would scientists determine the true identity of the remains? What does their presence in the New World mean for religion and history? If true, who has the legal and moral claim to posses the remains? Given the magnitude of the Find, would anyone live through the experience of excavating, analyzing, and interpreting the site? The resolution of the conflict between scientists, religious zealots, and legal authorities is as unexpected as the Find itself.

 

When My Nose Runs, Where Does It Go?
by Jennifer L. Rogala

Can a fence really run around a house?
Can the face of a clock blush?
Can you eat with a fork in the road?
The same word can be used to describe different things. This book uses silly questions to show how one word can be used in different ways. Most of the questions refer to parts of the human body or to actions that the human body can perform.

 

Ways to Say the Words You've Heard
by Jennifer L. Rogala

What do you call your friends? Are they your pals, your chums, your buddies or your mates? How do you say you're tired? Are you pooped, bushed, beat or sleepy? There are many ways to say the same thing. "Ways to Say the Words You've Heard" follows a young child through his daily routine. It uses simple verses and rhyming lists to introduce synonyms, silly slang, a little foreign language and other words having nearly the same meaning as another.

 
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