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How to Write Everything

By: David Quantick
Narrated by: David Quantick
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How to Write Everything is the ultimate writer's handbook. It tells you about every aspect of writing, from having an idea to getting the idea out into the world and getting paid for it, too. It covers everything from journalism to screenwriting, from speeches to sketches, from sitcoms to novels.

With thirty years' experience as an award-winning scriptwriter, journalist, author, and broadcaster, David Quantick is ideally suited, as a writer, to write this definitive writer's guide to writing...everything.

©2014 David Quantick (P)2015 Audible, Ltd Entertainment & Performing Arts Film & TV Screenwriting Words, Language & Grammar Writing & Publishing Funny Inspiring Witty Comedy

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Found the book so funny. Really sensible practical advice. Covers lots of different types of writing from books to screen plays, writing for films and suggestions for further reading.

Loved this

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laconic, well constructed, wonderful voice tembre. I had a good time. 👍 will look for other books from the author.

very inspiring

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signal to noise ratio, and I certainly learned some worthwhile things. Not sure the French and Saunders recommendation was so hilarious.

I think it was interesting how at the end of the play section he warns us not to "hector" the audience and in the very next section I feel like I am on the receiving end of a great big hectoring that even Hector himself would find a bit of a troyal. There's a pun in their somewhere, maybe DQ can help fix it.

Quite entertaining. Quite insightful. A good

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Everything you need to know about the profession, like a guide walking you through some do and don'ts.

Enjoy able and informative.

Everything.

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I am a published author. I write for two glossy national magazines and have writtren for newspapers, radio and television. I'm also a professional stand up comedian.
I also suffer from all the insecurities, laziness, self doubts and procrastinations the author talks about.
This book is beyond helpful to anyone who wants to write, or for the writer, it's great to hear you're not alone. it's full of genuinely helpful advice on practicality all aspects of writing.

Absolutely wonderful book.

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Would you consider the audio edition of How to Write Everything to be better than the print version?

It was certainly well read and brought out the humour from the author although I would have liked to have a print version to make notes and underline in.

What did you like best about this story?

Practical, honest and very funny

Which scene did you most enjoy?

All of it

Any additional comments?

A helpful and real book about the truth of what it means to be an actual writer

Honest and Practical Book about Writing

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Line up your excuses, your time-sapping internal chatter, and bend over as Quantick eviscerates them and thrashes some loving sense into you. Stuffed with stuff of the stuff of experience. If you enjoyed Stephen King's 'On Writing', this is as good, only different.

If it won't help you, you're mistaken.

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What did you like most about How to Write Everything?

David Quantick is funny and encouraging. I found this book a helpful overview of the world of commercial writing and have taken away some good ideas. Worth a listen

What did you like best about this story?

I like the no nonsense approach. This isn't a book about how to cultivate creativity, there are other books on the market for this, but it is about being realistic in entering the world of writing.

What does David Quantick bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book?

A better sense of his personality, his rhythm, the audiobook works well. I probably wouldn't have read this book in paper but I enjoyed the audiobook. Would have happily listened longer.

Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

The book is funny and I did laugh out loud at times.

Good fun advice

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Warning: you need to be British or at least have lived in England the last 20 years in order to relate to most of the content.

Book in a nutshell: Write all the time and use google to find things out.

D.Q. (the way he reminds you who is speaking in interviews, more on that later) is a good writer, and as such have come up with a catchy, and above all, selling title for his book. He skipped: inspire you to – as in: How to inspire you to Write Everything. It brings insight into what it is like to write and be a writer for different genres. And a little bit about how.

The book definitely have some good advise but there is too much about "who is who" and "who wrote what". In the beginning of the book he claimed it was not about namedropping but about examples. Problem is, the namedropping of TV-shows, writers and celebrities etc. are mostly related to Britain. Unknown to the rest of the world. So the examples becomes moot.

Interviews is an interesting part of the book all be it they are more about the writing scene than about how. The interviews are written (sort of) verbatim with the initials of the people speaking as guide to the conversation. It goes as follows: D.Q.: asks a question, B.A.: answers, D.Q.: asks… and so on. It would have been easier to understand had he used names. David: asks a question, Ben: answers, David: asks… Especially since the narrator (the author) pronounces the initials as callouts between the sentences.

D.Q.: Let a professional narrator read your books.
And: there is little learning in lists about achievements.

A book for Brits

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An enjoyable listen but, not what I needed. Not sure what I’ve actually learned. The no nonsense advice on how to come up with ideas is valuable. The main take away is to just go and write.

Entertaining

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