Review: Transformed By This Book
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 12, 2013
Transformed By Writing: How To Change Your Life And Change The World With The Power Of Story is an inspiring book written by Robert Hammond. In this book he shares the secrets to a successful writing career whether you are looking to become a published author or a screenplay writer.With experience in the financial and writing industries, Hammond provides readers will invaluable insight and a plan for how to create a manuscript people will be interested in reading. He compares the advantages and disadvantages of publishing a book yourself as opposed to taking it to a publishing company.Hammond emphasizes that the best way to create written work that will compel people to read it is to take real life stories and situations and fictionalize them. He points out that everyone has ideas and simply having ideas is not enough to write a book or screenplay. Those ideas need to be developed into something marketable, something people will see value in.Several books and films are discussed throughout the course of this book as examples of ways in which plot and character are developed into a story that people can relate to. Hammond talks about having written a book about someone who becomes the victim of identity theft, because this is one of the most common problems in the world today. He shows his readers how to take something everyone has knowledge of and turn it into a story.One of the goals of this book is to teach people who are interested in writing how to develop a character that can be a hero throughout the course of a story. He talks about the journey every hero must take and how that journey can be turned into the plot of a book or the subject of a screenplay. Hammond advises readers that that journey every hero takes must have a clear beginning, middle and ending. He suggests that readers get started developing story ideas by asking themselves, "what if?" That gives writers a starting point that will likely lead them to new and creative ideas that could translate the plot of a novel or even translate to the big screen.Hammond includes transcripts of various radio and TV interviews he has done recently and even includes a transcript of the first day of the college screenwriting class he teaches. He does this in order to educate the reader on some of the things they need to think about on their road to creating literary work that can be sold to the masses.The book concludes with several valuable website links to get writers started on the road to success. It also shares many press releases that can teach readers how to market themselves and their book or screenplay.This inspirational book can motivate anyone who has the desire in them to go forward with plans to create and write a book of their own. Here, aspiring writers will find all the help they need in order to realize their dream of becoming a published author.