Review: DIDN'T LIVE UP TO MY EXPECTATIONS
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 07 8, 2014
First of all, the title of this book should have mentioned that it is really written for FICTION WRITERS and not really Non-Fiction authors. Honesly, I was expecting a lot more from the "secret techniques" that actually anyone could have come up with if they had just taken the time to think about it. There are no real secrets here, just some common sense. There wasn't a lot here in terms of value, and the book reads like a writers memoir on how "she" achieved this great feat of getting to 10k and sometimes 12k a day. I will admit this is a great accomplishment but, the title is decieving. First of all, it focusus on mainly writing for fiction authors; secondly, if you are working a full time job [not as a full time author], raising a family and busy with other things because you can't go full time yet, achieving 10k a day consistently isn't going to happen. She does mention this in the book but I wanted to point it out. Having said that, many famous authors write 2k a day, and survive. 2k is actually an acceptable [and tangible] target. NOW, while I was expecting to get some more techniques or helpful methods from this naterial, the last half of this book goes off the theme of writing fast and tells us how to outline and put together a fiction book. This is the point I skipped ahead to the end. I write fiction as well as non-fiction so didn't mind the lesson, BUT I bought this book to learn ONLY how to write faster. It should have stuck with that and given us more ideas, especially for those that are not working as Authors full time.Also, the subtitle tells us that if we do it this way we will be able to write better. I didn't get that part and don't think that it improved my writing at all by boosting my word count. I wrote 10k a day ONCE and I usually write 3k a day, and what I can say is, the 3k mark actually had better quality stuff in it. I would much rather recommend Writing Habit Mastery by Steve Scott which is more practical and full of better value.