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This 17th edition, under Kaplan’s splendid direction, contains over 20,000 quotations, representing 2,500 authors, 90 of whom are new to BARTLETT’S. Newcomers include Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Tony Kushner, Tammy Wynette, Margaret Atwood, Mary Oli…

President Carter has written importantly about his spiritual life and faith. In Living Faith, a huge bestseller, he recounted the values and experiences that shaped his personal and political life. In his companion book Sources of Strength, also a bes…

Too true. I wrote about half of my 178-page dissertation over 5 months, and the other half over about 3 weeks. Guess which half I did first?

Our job was to extract their stories, make the stories cohere, dress them in spin appropriate to the culture of the country, match the stories + spin to what the government evaluators were looking for, add diagrams, print the whole goddam thing, and hand it in before the deadline. (No reason for being early in most places, since you did not want your bid to leak to competitors, nor run the risk of late changes to the requirements. Handing in close to the deadline, though, led to some hair-raising near-misses due to late planes, computer viruses, etc.)

Instead of a weekend, we usually had longer — between 1 and 6 months. The longest bid I worked on was 7,000 pages long (times 20 copies). It was sheer hell!!! I loved it!

I wonder if there is a communal version that could be formed, I guess online, more than a typical forum to pose queries and get encouragment, but with an interface that moves through some specific stages, brings all the online interfaces needed to get it, and establishes community membership types (guru, mentor, leader, facilitator, etc.) – you could pay into the system to get services, or you could perform other services to get credit.

I could probably start by helping the extraction process for others, and then throw myself into it when I had some credit.

God knows I need something like this (either version).

Take all the “how to get an agent” “how to get published” stuff OUT of the equation and make it about getting a book WRITTEN.

I love it. This got me very excited.

A ghost-writing&editing follow-up on the extraction, or an associated shape&theme-teaming, as per Ennis, is probably called for. Where “extraction” is really useful is concept > direction/organization > and bad-rough-draft onto paper, brainstorm-weird / semi-literate sentence by sentence, or at least on the level of paragraph topic-sentences. (Writing isn’t so much ideas, as words in a sequence. Writing-as-ideas is where the paralysis lurks.)

Like Tom, I’m poised for this! My resume includes a 24-hour emergency extraction/construction of a third-year paper at Harvard Law School for/with a classmate threatened with postponed graduation. Pen in hand, I’m a living JustDoIt logo (digital animation extra).

My current process obsession is the extreme pragmatic usefulness of the Myers Briggs. Some thought from that realm should go into the teaming, and the match with the extractee. Teamwork for this would ideally be highly compatible, ecstatically high-energy and seamless, not collapse into internecine differences, arguments, and premature good taste.

Happily, premature good taste is never a problem at our shop.

Tom, I know you are working on something, but clearly you have gifts of conceptualization and writing that make BE quite unnecessary! Thanks, Grant