Self-Help Books
Mar. 12th, 2008 02:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tahnanMy wife checked out The Money Coach's Guide to Your First Million from the library. It seems, in general, like decent advice, but I do want to offer you Tahnan's Guide to Writing a Self-Help Guide, based on what I call the ACRONYM system:
Unrelatedly: if anyone out there does the Atlantic Monthly's cryptic (note to Q. Pheevr: turns out the magazine had changed its mind again, and once again made the Puzzler, and its archives, public), [EDIT: never mind, Jangler explained it to me, bless 'im. Note left up, though, so that the reading public in general, and Q. in particular, can be reminded that there're some well-crafted cryptics out there].
- Arrange points in sets
- Create a mnemonic
- Rearrange as necessary
- Offer the points together
- Never be afraid to stretch things
- You should keep going as long as necessary
- Milk it for all it's worth
Unrelatedly: if anyone out there does the Atlantic Monthly's cryptic (note to Q. Pheevr: turns out the magazine had changed its mind again, and once again made the Puzzler, and its archives, public), [EDIT: never mind, Jangler explained it to me, bless 'im. Note left up, though, so that the reading public in general, and Q. in particular, can be reminded that there're some well-crafted cryptics out there].
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Date: 2008-03-12 11:48 am (UTC)Clearly this is the message the book had for you -- write a self-help guide to writing self-help guides! Your first million is on its way!
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Date: 2008-03-12 02:05 pm (UTC)On the other hand, Will at IB has a pretty awesome improv show/format where he gets a word or two from the audience and uses them to create his self-help system but creating acronyms. It is so true.
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Date: 2008-03-12 01:48 pm (UTC)Okay, so where does the other i come from? (The only thing I can think of is that it might have something to do with the title of the puzzle; I haven't done the rest of the clues yet to see whether they exhibit the same sort of... egotism.)
Anyway, thanks for the link! It's good to know that it's available even to disgruntled ex-subscribers.
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Date: 2008-03-12 07:40 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-03-12 09:15 pm (UTC)