Comments on: My Book Young & Stupid In Just 4 Months! http://www.andrewfashion.com/2010/01/22/my-book-young-stupid-in-just-4-months/ My thoughts, ideas, and rants. Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:07:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Andrew Fashion http://www.andrewfashion.com/2010/01/22/my-book-young-stupid-in-just-4-months/comment-page-1/#comment-1033 Andrew Fashion Sat, 27 Feb 2010 02:30:00 +0000 http://www.310andrewfashion.com/?p=986#comment-1033 GREAT IDEA GREAT IDEA

]]> By: Andrew Fashion http://www.andrewfashion.com/2010/01/22/my-book-young-stupid-in-just-4-months/comment-page-1/#comment-1032 Andrew Fashion Sat, 27 Feb 2010 02:29:22 +0000 http://www.310andrewfashion.com/?p=986#comment-1032 Great ideas man! Great ideas man!

]]> By: Andrew Fashion http://www.andrewfashion.com/2010/01/22/my-book-young-stupid-in-just-4-months/comment-page-1/#comment-1031 Andrew Fashion Sat, 27 Feb 2010 02:29:00 +0000 http://www.310andrewfashion.com/?p=986#comment-1031 No idea what happened?!?!? No idea what happened?!?!?

]]> By: xman http://www.andrewfashion.com/2010/01/22/my-book-young-stupid-in-just-4-months/comment-page-1/#comment-1011 xman Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:00:53 +0000 http://www.310andrewfashion.com/?p=986#comment-1011 I left supportive comments on three different blog posts yesterday, but it looks like they've been deleted. Damn Son! Whats up with that? I left supportive comments on three different blog posts yesterday, but it looks like they’ve been deleted. Damn Son! Whats up with that?

]]> By: Eli http://www.andrewfashion.com/2010/01/22/my-book-young-stupid-in-just-4-months/comment-page-1/#comment-981 Eli Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:01:40 +0000 http://www.310andrewfashion.com/?p=986#comment-981 Since your into the trendy scene, make some of the chapter titles rhyme like "Too Cool for High School" "Too much Green at Age Eighteen: I became a $2(much) Millionaire" "Passion: The Birth Of Andrew Fashion" "Whodini: The 2 Millionaire, went POOF into thin Air" "The Life lesson became a depression" "Life in the Fast Lane, but with good brakes. I'm not done yet! Restart the Engine" "The Fall off the Ball: How I Lost It All" or "To Ball and Fall: How I Lost It All" Also, make a blank thirteenth chapter with with only short messages on each page to help encourage people to make their own notes to start writing their own story. Also you can give them something to solve in the back of the book where they can go to your website to get the final answer. Since your into the trendy scene, make some of the chapter titles rhyme like
“Too Cool for High School”
“Too much Green at Age Eighteen: I became a $2(much) Millionaire”
“Passion: The Birth Of Andrew Fashion”
“Whodini: The 2 Millionaire, went POOF into thin Air”
“The Life lesson became a depression”
“Life in the Fast Lane, but with good brakes. I’m not done yet! Restart the Engine”
“The Fall off the Ball: How I Lost It All” or “To Ball and Fall: How I Lost It All”

Also, make a blank thirteenth chapter with with only short messages on each page to help encourage people to make their own notes to start writing their own story. Also you can give them something to solve in the back of the book where they can go to your website to get the final answer.

]]> By: Suthan S. http://www.andrewfashion.com/2010/01/22/my-book-young-stupid-in-just-4-months/comment-page-1/#comment-697 Suthan S. Sun, 31 Jan 2010 07:34:58 +0000 http://www.310andrewfashion.com/?p=986#comment-697 I've been browsing around and reading your blog for quite a while now but yeah I'm definitely looking forward to read your book. ;-) I’ve been browsing around and reading your blog for quite a while now but yeah I’m definitely looking forward to read your book. ;-)

]]> By: andrewfashion http://www.andrewfashion.com/2010/01/22/my-book-young-stupid-in-just-4-months/comment-page-1/#comment-612 andrewfashion Tue, 26 Jan 2010 23:03:29 +0000 http://www.310andrewfashion.com/?p=986#comment-612 I am definitely taking everything into consideration, I got the ghost writing idea from you. I am writing my entire story in chronological order as well as I can, and will have a ghost writer "hollywood" it up so to speak and make it appealing, compelling, grabbing, emotional, etc... :) I am definitely taking everything into consideration, I got the ghost writing idea from you. I am writing my entire story in chronological order as well as I can, and will have a ghost writer "hollywood" it up so to speak and make it appealing, compelling, grabbing, emotional, etc… :)

]]> By: andrewfashion http://www.andrewfashion.com/2010/01/22/my-book-young-stupid-in-just-4-months/comment-page-1/#comment-610 andrewfashion Tue, 26 Jan 2010 23:02:04 +0000 http://www.310andrewfashion.com/?p=986#comment-610 I absolutely agree, and I saw your post somewhere I believe, and did hire a ghost writer :) Thank you for the suggestion! :) I absolutely agree, and I saw your post somewhere I believe, and did hire a ghost writer :) Thank you for the suggestion! :)

]]> By: Felipe http://www.andrewfashion.com/2010/01/22/my-book-young-stupid-in-just-4-months/comment-page-1/#comment-600 Felipe Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:15:01 +0000 http://www.310andrewfashion.com/?p=986#comment-600 Again, I'm telling you this because I believe that your story has the potential to make a good book. Your rush to get this released will destroy much of its potential. I say this as someone with experience in the literature industry--formerly on the authorship side, and now on the legal side. Good Luck Again, I'm telling you this because I believe that your story has the potential to make a good book. Your rush to get this released will destroy much of its potential. I say this as someone with experience in the literature industry–formerly on the authorship side, and now on the legal side.

Good Luck

]]> By: Felipe http://www.andrewfashion.com/2010/01/22/my-book-young-stupid-in-just-4-months/comment-page-1/#comment-599 Felipe Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:14:42 +0000 http://www.310andrewfashion.com/?p=986#comment-599 You need to seriously consider a ghost writer. I'm worried that you're wasting your story--and a potential bank check--by writing this yourself. If the blog postings under "Young and Stupid" are your chapters, then the organization of your book needs improvement. A book isn't just a re-telling of your history. Rather, a book is a meticulously crafted story that manipulates the reader's emotions. Every detail, every chapter is calculated to invoke a certain feeling. Your blog postings, while interesting, don't exhibit the same craftsmanship. For instance, there are few twists and turns, and your consistent tone--the unabashful and courageous "I fucked up, but I'm on the path to redemption" tone--is uplifiting, but it will become tedious in a 200 page book. A ghost writer can help fashion a book out of the story so that the reader's climax doesn't come premature...and indeed, so that the reader climaxes. (And that's all a book is; a good orgasm.) Moreover, a ghost writer is needed to correct the grammer and to give the prose fluidity. I think that your strenght is in creating the story, living the action, rather than retelling the story. You need to seriously consider a ghost writer. I'm worried that you're wasting your story–and a potential bank check–by writing this yourself.

If the blog postings under "Young and Stupid" are your chapters, then the organization of your book needs improvement. A book isn't just a re-telling of your history. Rather, a book is a meticulously crafted story that manipulates the reader's emotions. Every detail, every chapter is calculated to invoke a certain feeling. Your blog postings, while interesting, don't exhibit the same craftsmanship. For instance, there are few twists and turns, and your consistent tone–the unabashful and courageous "I fucked up, but I'm on the path to redemption" tone–is uplifiting, but it will become tedious in a 200 page book. A ghost writer can help fashion a book out of the story so that the reader's climax doesn't come premature…and indeed, so that the reader climaxes. (And that's all a book is; a good orgasm.)

Moreover, a ghost writer is needed to correct the grammer and to give the prose fluidity. I think that your strenght is in creating the story, living the action, rather than retelling the story.

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