Thread: Books

Ive for a long time been asked to write a Book, theres a few Journalist asking me to Ghost write it. Antbody on here done it curious. I thank you

I don't have any experience to share unfortunately, but I'd be very interested in reading your book; whatever that is worth.

I really regret not writing a book for my senior project. Instead I wrote an original screenplay which took an extraordinary amount of time, more time then I ever would have thought. I regretted about halfway through not writing a novel but in the end it worked itself out. So no, I have never written a book but I imagine someday in the future when I'm an established journalist I'll make money off books. Because books PAY. If you can move books you are rolling in it and sports books sell great.

But no I haven't.

Amat, It is as I see it a Big undertaking, Im wondering how much time it takes. They want to run it in conjunction with something else Im doing. But as others say it will stand on its own very complimentry, I wonder if Ive got the time its a bit complicated.

I've never wrote a book, I haven't expierienced enough to justify one ( yet ) But I am writing a thesis at the moment.

I think you would write a very good book Scap. You've got an excellent way of analysing things.

I'd read it

Their are varying levels of time, if you had a ghostwriter it would not be nearly as much of a strain on you as far as time goes it would just require a lot of work done before the writing started and then you would get chapters and regular updates from whoever the writer was. You would go over it with them and then you would be fine.

Writing is such a long drawn out process though it took me nearly 300 hours over about 6 months for my screenplay after revisions and all that were through like I said it was completely exhausting. You can move at a moderate pace, a chapter a week and for a 20 chapter book that isn't terribly long and a chapter a week definitely isn't hard to accomplish. It's on the backend that takes up so much time, the revisions and all that but as long as you odn't have a deal with deadlines in place, if you're just looking to sell your book after it's finished to a publisher then some time is alleviated.

But yeah no matter how you slice up the time it's going to take a while to write. When I wrote my screenplay towards the end I became obsessed with it, in fact I almost freaked out and started from scratch like a month before the project deadline but I curbed that.

I'd envision somethings along these lines...

Chapter One:
"Hamstrings."

There is very little funnier than making a grown man cry. In order to correctly train a boxer you must first put him through such excruciating pain that his enthusiasm, confidence and pride are cast aside, replaced with moans, tears andself pity. He must be reduced to a pitiful mess.
Key to this are the hamstrings......

Originally Posted by hitmandonny

I've never wrote a book, I haven't expierienced enough to justify one ( yet ) But I am writing a thesis at the moment.

I think you would write a very good book Scap. You've got an excellent way of analysing things.

I'd read it

What are you writing your thesis on?

Ive got three who offered, but going with one whose work I admire. I think it will be 500 pages theres a lot to get in. Ive want to go the way of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintainance, back and forward telling storys which relate in there own way to the point of the end

Originally Posted by Scrap

Ive got three who offered, but going with one whose work I admire. I think it will be 500 pages theres a lot to get in. Ive want to go the way of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintainance, back and forward telling storys which relate in there own way to the point of the end

Scrap fella congrats on the book and I hope it goes well.

Will you start the book from when you were around to witness the 1st motorized cycle.

Probably from the first time I cheated death Mick

Good for you Scrap, I'll ask you to send me a freebie buy it

Originally Posted by Scrap

Probably from the first time I cheated death Mick

I've cheated death myself.
Really an eye opener...

Once in a car the other when I had a gun pointed at my stomach.

Originally Posted by CutMeMick

Originally Posted by Scrap

Probably from the first time I cheated death Mick

I've cheated death myself.
Really an eye opener...

Once in a car the other when I had a gun pointed at my stomach.

I've had several of those myself, unfortunately nearly all of them were a result of my own stupidity.

I typed one of them out, but I deleted it because I didn't want to hijack Scrap's thread.

Interesting topic cheating death, my first time was 17 well the first I can remember. Lucky I had an experianced mountainer with me, we were Ice climbing in the Lakes a place called Great End. We got there looked up, there were four parties already on the climb called South East gully about 1200 ft the climb. Brian my mate said I dont fancy that to many people on it so we did Central Gully. After finnishing it we came back down to do hopefully do the SE Gully, and were met by the Mountain Rescue and by the RAF rescue team. The Gully had Avalanched killing 8 people, the biggest Mountain disaster in British history, Fucking Hell.