True Stories of a Mediocre Writer: How to be more confident and finish your creative projects

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 provides a few tips about how to be more confident, imperfect and finish your book. It's 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 experiences of the author about becoming more confident in your ability to balance perfection and accuracy that results in a higher likelihood of finishing your work. Alan O'Hashi's memoir about how lessons from life were big influences that resulted in his first book pitch based on a typed up piece of paper in June, resulted in an 80,000 word manuscript and publishing contract five months later. Author Alan O'Hashi has been writing since he was 12 years old as a reporter for the Carey Junior High School newspaper, "The Tumbleweed" published in his hometown of Cheyenne, Wyoming.

228 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 16, 2020

Reviews

[Robert · Rating 5 out of 5]

Autobiography, with some writing advice, of a media friend in Boulder. I met him through the Boulder International Film Festival, where I had two short films play, was an ed consultant, then a screener. One of the shorts I wrote won a script contest for the Boulder Asian Film Festival. Alan O'Hashi was an exec producer when we actually got to make the film, "Adobo." I became a board member of Boulder Community Media and worked on a variety of projects. Alan's constant advice is to take whatever you do, and whatever happens to you, and use it for your creative projects, in whatever medium you prefer. Alan also argues against perfectionism, though I wish he'd had someone proof read the manuscript.