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Adolescent09
04-30-2007, 10:47 PM
Recently I've stumbled upon a writer's blok with my book and believe I need some literary aids to enhance my ideas and bring the pace of my writing back to where it was. In endeavoring to end this problem I have googled links along the lines of "overcoming a writer's block" and "book-writing". Amidst the plethora of other basic writing sites which lay down the universal fundamentals of first-time book writing I have discovered THIS (http://www.writequickly.com/author/menu.aspx) sight which incessantly boasts its ability to get smooth thoughts and flow down on paper without nettling breaks and procrastination. Pure consummated manuscripts (fully proof-read and edited) are said to be guaranteed within 28 days of persuing the training course and the site master, Nick Daws has insinuated:


To be honest, the first time you do it, you'll probably manage it within 14 days, and the second time in around a week. However, a course claiming to show you how to write a book in 7 days flat would be disregarded by most as being crazy. IT ISN'T.

Impossible? Charles Dickens wrote his literary classic A Christmas Carol in just 2 weeks. Samuel Johnson wrote Rasselas: Prince of Abyssinia in an amazing 4 days. Barbara Cartland took only 5 days to write each of her books, resulting in an amazing 623 best-sellers during her lifetime. The hit self-help book Don't Sweat the Small Stuff is still selling in its millions - and was written by Dr Richard Carlson during a 12-hour transatlantic flight

I'm itching to shell out fifty dollars and some change to supplement my writing efforts but the general interface of the website along with the overt grammatical mistakes in the site's solicited presentation and the oddly generic testimonials has made me feel dubious..

I would greatly appreciate some seconds thoughts on this matter :)

The site is here again:http://www.writequickly.com/author/menu.aspx Thanks.

Adolescent09
04-30-2007, 10:51 PM
Jesus of inflated fat pigs.. I spelt Site wrong O_o.

Adolescent09
04-30-2007, 10:59 PM
Even the world's best-selling novelist, Agatha Christie, claimed to have written all her manuscripts in under a month. In a BBC interview, she said: "I find no reason why one month isn't adequate time to write a book".

More insinuations from the site.

Logos
04-30-2007, 11:23 PM
Here's the digest version:

http://todgoldberg.typepad.com/tod_goldberg/2005/12/all_these_years.html

:lol:

Logos
04-30-2007, 11:25 PM
P.S. I edited the thread title for you :p