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Morning Rolled Oats 

How To Write A Best Seller

From: Robert Karl Skoglund
Length: 02:07

Involve yourself in an authentic human drama and put it in a book. Read the full description.

Humbleoats_small After you are accused of spying and are rescued by Jimmy Carter or Al Gore, your book detailing an authentic human drama will be a best seller.

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Piece Description

After you are accused of spying and are rescued by Jimmy Carter or Al Gore, your book detailing an authentic human drama will be a best seller.

Transcript

How would you like to pick up enough quick cash to pay off the mortgage on your home? Or, have enough change in that little cup in the kitchen to spend your winters in Fuengirola or Reggio Calabria? You can do it. Involve yourself in an authentic human drama and put it in a book. The process is now so shopworn you’ll wonder why you didn’t think of it yourself. Get a knapsack and a camera and a stout pair of walking shoes. Ok, you’re way ahead of me --- you can see where this is going, can’t you? So you already know you should have one or two friends with you when you start up that rugged mountain trail right on the border of some tiny country where the people are scared to death of the United States. Everyone in the world, except a few provincial Americans, knows that it has been two or three generations since the United States was hailed as a protector of the oppressed and a beacon of...
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Intro and Outro

INTRO:

How would you like to pick up enough quick cash to pay off the mortgage on your home? Or, have enough change in that little cup in the kitchen to spend your winters in Fuengirola or Reggio Calabria? You can do it.

OUTRO:

After you are accused of spying and are rescued by Jimmy Carter or Al Gore, your book detailing an authentic human drama will be a best seller.