You Can... Write Your Book In A Weekend: secrets behind this proven, life changing, truly unique, inside-out approach - Softcover

Bird, Tom

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1627470077 ISBN 13: 9781627470070

Publisher: Sojourn Publishing, LLC, 2013

Synopsis

Best-selling author and author whisperer TOM BIRD has led tens of thousands to the successful completion of their books. An innovator by nature, his most recent breakthrough is his Write Your Publishable Book in a Weekend Retreat, where over 98 percent of those who have attended in the last few years completed the writing of their books. Want to know more about Tom? Visit his website, www.tombird.com, or purchase and then read this book.

About this title

About the Author

Besides being a successful author himself, Tom is also recognized by many in the know as the top writing coach in the industry, a legendary mid-wife and life-changing-book whisperer, who many of his authors believe can actually feel the presence of their books in them.

From the Back Cover

You can have your literary dream, no matter what motivates you toward living it, right here and right now. You don't need any previous 'qualifications'. In fact, the few you do have, the better because there will be less relearning for you to do. You can accomplish this release and rebirthing of your deepest spiritual, expressive self, which was jammed into its own unlivable space so long ago. You can live your literary dream, if that is what you seek to do, in less than a week.

However, again (and this is worth repeating), it is possible to actually become the author you want to be while also experiencing first hand all the life-changing aspects of writing a book right now in a weekend, for a price equivalent to one fifth of the average cost of a semester's tuition at a middle-of-the-road college or university. How much have you already invested in a career, vocation, or psychotherapy?

Sorry, but I can't help you do anything about what you have already invested. All I can help you with is moving forward, right now, through writing a book and experiencing all the wondrous gifts and opportunitiesit presents. All you will need to experience them, the vast array of them, is a long weekend.

These questions would be more appropriate to ask yourself instead.

• What would it be worth to you to be able to birth your deepest, most purpose-connected self?
• How would that change your life?
• How would that change the world?
• How would that change the lives of those around you?

Take a moment to ponder those questions again once more before reading on. We're not talking three, around-the-clock days. When done properly, as described in this book, we're talking about three, eight-hour days--kind of like going to work at a normal job for a long weekend. In that short amount of time you will learn all that you need to carry you through the rest of your life. All that has held you back to this point from being able to write will surface and be released. All that lies before you as a soul will be laid out in front of you, like a newly paved autobahn constructed just for you and only you. It will be your road, your path, the one you were meant to drive down solely, at whatever speed or rate you prefer to travel.

From the Inside Flap

That something, which is so one-of-a-kind-special, has led me to believe that everyone should write a book at some point in their lives. The earlier the better, if not for the vocational opportunities available then for the unmatched, can't-seem-to-get-anywhere-else alternatives that are available from doing so. I am not alone in that belief. America's most famous and well-respected family, the Kennedys, have long understood and believed in the power, possibility, and release associated with the writing of a book. Just look at how many books they have written. They have encouraged their children, from JFK Jr. to Bobby Kennedy Jr., to write. Could writing have led the children, those famous Kennedys, to their great, oftentimes earth-changing lives? No one can say for sure, for there may not be an absolute way of measuring a correlation between writing a book and living a successful life.

Just look what a bestseller, The Hurricane by Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, did for the author. How about Nelson Mandela and Solzhenitsyn, who wrote their earth-shaking books while in prison as well? Writing their books in prison led to their freedom from that prison emotionally, spiritually and oftentimes physically as well. What they wrote about or experienced while in their prison cells led to their fame and fortune, through the release of their message, once they were set free.

Could what these moving authors experienced be analogies to what all of us have faced in our lives or are facing right now? Could it be that we are all in some sort of self-imposed prison, some more obvious than others, until we write our books? Could it be that those prisons in which we find ourselves are there specifically to encourage the writing of our books?

Could that lack of a job or purpose in your life right now create some sort of prison for you as well, where you feel especially locked up with a lot of time on your hands to do....nothing? Maybe it is, as Tolle would view it, that nothingness which needs to be filled, longs to be filled, with the writing of a book. If everything does happen for a reason, could the reason that you may have a lot of time on your hands or seek to have a lot of time on your hands have to do with the fact that the prison which you have created for yourself has appeared to lead you to writing your book?

It is said that a great book changes the lives of many. I believe that the greatest change experienced by writing a book is for the author doing the writing. In fact, despite all of the money and fame that can be earned by doing so, if that were not the case no one would ever make it through the penning of a book. Doing so is just too hard and the motivation not great enough.

There is an off-balance belief in unsuccessful writing circles that you should always write to your audience. What they mean is that you should write codependently to the needs of those you want to like your work, those who will buy your books. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Sure, you should write for your audience. On that point I agree. However, the audience that you should write for is the audience of yourself. For then and only then can you successfully acknowledge and appreciate and thus grow, change, and heal from the experience of writing.

Could adhering to inappropriately designed, truly unexplored sayings and beliefs such as the one above, be the reason that the writing of a book has become so difficult, if not impossible, by the well-meaning, hardworking, impassioned souls of our planet? Yes. In fact, as you will see in the story that follows, I encountered nothing but failure when investing in the quot;orthodox" approaches to writing, and it was only when I totally began adhering to the complete opposite of what I had been told or taught that I began to experience the success that I deserved as an author.

Such has been the case with, I would venture to say, every person that has ever entered one of my classes or workshops. In one way or another, each person is a writing refugee. Each has tried, on one level or another, to "birth" a book only to be met with frustration and failure. Could it be that what they had learned about writing up until that point had been the cause?

Yes. In fact, once they blend with the method I have used to experience my own success, the one which I teach, then and only then do they transition. Once they transition, all of a sudden writing becomes easy and joyful once again, just like they experienced so long ago before someone "taught" them how to write, as opposed to showing them how to potentially unbridle and release themselves to write.

You see, I don't teach them how to write. I simply help them reconnect with the authors they already are, beyond all that they learned. Once there, all they had lost suddenly returns, they birth their books in record times, and they change their own lives-- for their audiences and for themselves.

Everyone should write a book because everyone is meant to write a book. It is the sole way of delivering the message we were all born to live and then leave behind, first to the author himself or herself and then to the outside audience. It is from that perspective, and from what feels like several lifetimes of experience in this area, that this book is written.

"... in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only." --Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities

Perhaps it has become obvious that you do need to make a career shift. Perhaps it has become obvious that your career needs to be invigorated in a big way, and the presence of a book authored by you, in your particular area of interest, would more than help. Perhaps there is a greater calling inside you. You can just feel it, but don't know how to get to it. Writing a book can get you there. Maybe you have finally just gotten tired of trying to outrun all of the pain, anger, and frustration that has dogged you for what feels like forever. Perhaps you need a route to release it (the subject of many a great book) in order to heal those parts of you.

Perhaps you need to be offered another perspective, a lifesaving one, before it is too late. Perhaps all of the above descriptions apply to you. Perhaps only one or two of them. Either way, it's time to write your book. Now, before we go any further and your logical "can't do it, can't even try" mindset gets a hold of this concept, I need to clarify something. I'm not talking about the resurrection of your life, career, and relationships taking the rest of your years on this planet. I'm talking about getting all of this done in three days--three short days--to change your life. You can change your outlook on relationships (especially the one with yourself), health, vocation, your total perspective of your time here on this planet, and much more in three days. Three Days! Not several decades or centuries. ook at this realistically. What would you invest to accomplish that which you can derive from writing? You may have already invested tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars in a college or university education, not to mention all those years, and you are still reading this book. How many of the tens of thousands of English or journalism majors walk out after graduation with either a bachelor's or master's degree or a Ph.D. and yet have not written the publishable book: the real reason they entered into the program they chose in the first place?

Edition details

• Publisher: Sojourn Publishing, LLC
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1627470077
• ISBN 13: 9781627470070
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 150