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    Confessions of a 3-Day Novelist: How to Write an Entire Book in Just 72 Hours: Indie Confessions, #1
    Confessions of a 3-Day Novelist: How to Write an Entire Book in Just 72 Hours: Indie Confessions, #1
    Confessions of a 3-Day Novelist: How to Write an Entire Book in Just 72 Hours: Indie Confessions, #1
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    Confessions of a 3-Day Novelist: How to Write an Entire Book in Just 72 Hours: Indie Confessions, #1

    By Laura Roberts

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    Want to finish writing your books faster? Learn the tricks that bestselling authors use to succeed!

    In 2011 author Laura Roberts wrote an entire book in just 72 hours, as part of the 3-Day Novel Contest. Upon completing the challenge successfully, she knew she'd found a great new way to write books quickly, and wanted to share her secrets with the world.

    In this book you'll learn:
    • How to write an entire book, from start to finish, in just three days;
    • How to outline your story to achieve success;
    • What you'll need to write your book in just 72 hours;
    ˃˃˃ Plus plenty of tricks and tips for writing faster, smarter, and harder!

    Use the methods that bestselling authors have used to achieve their success. Learn how to finish your books quickly to get them delivered to readers and build your fan base.

    ˃˃˃ What are you waiting for? Grab a copy and learn to start writing faster today.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherButtontapper Press
    Release dateFeb 16, 2015
    ISBN9781507044124
    Confessions of a 3-Day Novelist: How to Write an Entire Book in Just 72 Hours: Indie Confessions, #1
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    Laura Roberts

    Laura Roberts can leg-press an average-sized sumo wrestler, has nearly been drowned off the coast of Hawaii, and tells lies for a living. She is the founding editor of Black Heart Magazine, the San Diego Chapter Leader for the Nonfiction Authors Association, and publishes whatever strikes her fancy at Buttontapper Press. She currently lives in an Apocalypse-proof bunker in sunny SoCal with her artist husband and their literary kitties, and can be found on Twitter @originaloflaura. Blurring the lines between fact and fiction, Laura has penned the alphabetical travel guides Montreal from A to Z and San Diego from A to Z, offbeat writing guides A Cheater’s Guide to NaNoWriMo and Confessions of a 3-Day Novelist, and the satirical adventure tale, Ninjas of the 512. She is also the editor of the collection Haiku for Lovers, and the forthcoming anthology Everything I Need to Know About Love I Learned from Pop Songs (February 2016).

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      Confessions of a 3-Day Novelist - Laura Roberts

      INTRODUCTION

      When I tell people I wrote a novel in just three days, their first reaction is typically shock.

      Oh my god! they’ll say, How did you do that?

      When I tell them I was participating in an annual event called the 3-Day Novel Contest, they’re often even more surprised.

      "Wait, you mean this happens every year?! What kind of lunatics would do such a thing?"

      The short answer is: Canadians, mostly, as the event originally began in Vancouver.

      The longer answer is: People who like a good challenge. People like me.

      My name is Laura Roberts, and I’m a Three Day Novelist. In 2011, I participated in the 34th annual 3-Day Novel Contest. I paid the $50 entry fee and spent most of my Labor Day weekend holed up in my apartment writing what would eventually become my first published book, Ninjas of the 512: A Texas-Sized Satire.

      It was one of the hardest, craziest, and most ridiculously fun things I’ve ever done. After typing for 72 hours (with intermittent breaks for food, drink, caffeine, more caffeine, chocolate, still more caffeine, showers or naps when my energy was flagging, and a Sunday workout), I felt like my hands were going to fall off. But I finished my manuscript, and sent it in to be judged. The feeling was amazing. I had completed my first full-length book!

      Of course the manuscript was nowhere near complete ­– it was totally unedited, had plenty of typos and spelling errors and parts that said TK and Add More Here! It certainly wasn’t something I intended to upload to Amazon as a finished product, right then and there. But it was a complete story, told from start to finish. It was a 100% complete first draft.

      And it’s something you can learn how to do, too, because I can teach you my method.

      THIS SOUNDS CRAZY

      Right now you’re probably saying, This sounds crazy. How can I write a novel in only three days? I don’t have any special writing superpowers. She must be pulling my leg!

      Trust me, I doubted myself too. Like I said, this was the first full-length manuscript I ever successfully completed. I wasn’t sure I had the strength or the courage to complete the mission, but you know what? I was damn well going to try.

      To be honest, I had tried other methods, and they hadn’t worked for me. Although I’m a huge National Novel Writing

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