True Stories of a Mediocre Writer ...: ... and Accidental Author

By Alan O'Hashi

"All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know." is what Ernest Hemingway says about the essence of good storytelling. This book is for anyone who is a writer of organized words, whether they are fiction, nonfiction, poetry, work memos, grant applications, academic papers, or love letters. Read this book if you're a professional writer, a novelist just starting out, or a screenwriter with a half-done script lost deep in the bowels of a computer hard drive. Are you a writer who wonders how to get over self-doubt, kick your obsession with perfection, and for whatever reason, can't quite finish your writing project? This book will provide insight and a few tips through the author's experiences about becoming more confident in your ability to balance perfection and accuracy that results in a higher likelihood of finishing your work. This memoir by Alan O'Hashi relates how his lessons from life were significant influences that resulted in his first book pitch based on a typed-up piece of paper in June. He signed a contract and finished an 80,000-word manuscript five months later. Alan is a native of Cheyenne, Wyoming, where he began writing as a 12-year-old reporter for his junior high school newspaper, "The Tumbleweed." He relates his growth as a writer surviving a 1,000 year flood, an emergency landing of an airplane with a fire on board, two job layoffs after 9/11, and getting up from his death bed.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08KPKZDYZ
• ISBN13: 9798688421231
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"