Review: Advice from an English teacher on how to use the "five paragraph essay method" to quickly write an ebook.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 2, 2013
This book gives detailed information on how to very quickly write an ebook. The author is an English teacher who has taught many students how to write five paragraph essays effectively. It is his contention that this method can be used to write short ebooks of around 10,000 words which can then be sold on Amazon. The key is to write an outline for a five-paragraph essay which then will be broken down into sentences that will themselves be turned into five-paragraph essays. What you end up with is a series of five-paragraph essays that read like a book. Not only does the book explain how to do this but it is also itself an example of the method.There is no question that the method does work as the book is proof that it does. I can also see that this book would be extremely valuable to someone who is just getting into the ebook market and wants to produce something very quickly. Some people will not write a book if it is going to take them 21 days to do it. Yet Steve Scott suggests inHow to Write a Nonfiction eBook in 21 Days - That Readers LOVE!that this is how long it takes to write a quality ebook. For those readers that can't stomach this idea, Heath's "Write an Ebook in 14 Days" presents an alternative view that may help some authors to write a book when they otherwise would give up. I therefore recommend it for those readers.The only reason I give this book three stars instead of four is because I really think that the five-paragraph essay format produces stale writing in an ebook. To Heath's credit, he admits that many critics of the format say the same thing but argues that these critics are wrong. However, I personally did not find his arguments convincing.  I also think that 14 days is not enough time to produce an ebook of the highest quality, even if it is only 10,000 words.I have to admit though that Heath's book is an interesting alternative point of view and that this may make it worth the price for many readers.