Critical Acclaim for Patrick Rothfuss and His Unique Style of Writing

Patrick Rothfuss is one of the most interesting and unique writers of this generation. You won't find Twilight love stories here. His unique writing style paired with his special sense of humor has given rise to some of the most mind capturing pieces of work of this decade. His work has been critically acclaimed for his unique sense of writing style and captivating story lines. It won't be long before he makes millions of dollars selling the book rights over for a major motion picture trilogy for his bestselling books. Patrick Rothfuss is a bestselling American writer who capitalizes on creating fantasy works and is also a guest lecturer at some of the major universities around the United States.

Patrick Rothfuss was born on June 6th, 1973 in Madison, Wisconsin. He was active at his school newspaper The Pointer at the University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point. He is a naturally gifted fantasy writer which is demonstrated in all of his literary works of art. He currently works at his Alma Mata. He wrote the critically acclaimed The Kingkiller Chronicle which expanded into a three-volume series. But just because he is a best seller, it doesn't mean that this is the first honorable nod that he has received in the literary world.

In fact, in 2002 Patrick Rothfuss won the prestigious Writers of the Future award in 2002 for his work The Road to Levinshir. He eventually sold this novel to DAW Books. His career exploded with the release of The Name of the Wind, the first part of his three-part series of the KingKiller Chronicle. In 2007, he won the Quail Award and the "Best Books of the Year" award from Publishers Weekly from their Science Fiction/ Fantasy/ Horror division. He also became a #1 New York Times Best Seller for his trilogy. The second book released in the trilogy is The Wise Man's Fear which was released in March of 2011. The last book in the trilogy is titled The Doors of Stone. The release date has yet to be revealed for all of the Patrick Rothfuss fans out there.

Other works that Rothfuss has published and been critically acclaimed for his unique style of writing include "The Adventures of the Princess and Mr. Whiffle" published in July of 2010 and Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy where he published his award-winning The Road to Levinshir. There is no doubt that Patrick Rothfuss is a leading writer in the fantasy genre. He has brought a unique style of writing that most authors could only wish of possessing. He is an enormously talented fantasy writer, one who has yet to be fully recognized for all of his powerful and inspiring work within the genre. He is certainly a writing superstar with much more critically acclaimed work to come.

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The Art of Non-Conformity - Set Your Own Rules - Written by Chris Guillebeau

It is interesting how things fall into place. I read the 4-Hour work week by Tim Ferriss and was skeptical until I read it. Then this book shows up on my desk. Needless to say Chris Guillebeau has the right idea. People are sleep walking through life. They get up, work, go to bed and get up again. Before they know it, they are 60 years old and wondered what the heck happened. When you're a kid and followed the crowd typically you got in trouble and were told - "If everybody jumped off a bridge, would you follow?" Now when you are older you go to school, get a secure job, buy a house and die. If you do not follow all the people off the bridge then you are an outcast. Chris is an outcast of excellent stature. This is a great book. Let's dig in.......

Why is this important to me?
Well let's consider some things: Education today in the U.S. is a bit of a joke. We rank 25th of all the industrialized nations. This is horrible. Worse than that, kids are graduating college with mountains of debt and not getting jobs. Education cost is the only market that has been rising steadily and far exceeding growth in other areas.

You may ask: Why is Education so expensive and not really helping in the job market? There is so much loan money out there that the universities know they can charge more because there is money to be borrowed. It sounds like a bit of a paradox - students cannot afford college so let them go get money and pay for it for the rest of their lives. Worse than that for every engineer/tech person that makes stuff, our universities graduate 18 Lawyers and 50 MBA students. This means that one person creates actual utility and 68 people manage it.

With stats like this you really need to evaluate what you want out of life and the direction you need to take to solidify your future.

This book will show you some absolute great ideas and concepts that you can utilize but it all comes down to - What do you really want out of life? In the book Chris talks about 11 ways to be average. I highlighted three kickers

1. Accept what people tell you at face value. This is a classic one and you need to question everything. Remember half the knowledge we know today will be proven wrong in the future.

2. Don't try to learn another language, everyone else will learn English. This is just simple I-centered crap. I will admit that I only speak one language and frankly I am ashamed of it. This is currently being remedied.

3. Get the largest mortgage you can and spend the next 30 years trying to pay it. I can follow this one only if your money will be put to something with more utility. Remember that your house is a liability because it does NOT spit off monthly cash flow.

Don't be average because - "Tomorrow is promised to know one.

Chris's book is packed with excellent ideas and a ton of non-conforming thinking. I will touch on three key points for the sake of time.

1. Remarkable work - You need to define what this means for you. We touched on in the last slide how you can be average. The remarkable life needs to be defined in terms of health, happiness, relationship and work. Give this some thought and cut out the clutter.

2. Reclaiming Work - Chris tells a story about a person who was interviewing for bosses. Instead of putting a resume together and hoping to be picked out of a 100 people, she put out a blog post for an ideal boss and decided to work at that level. This is classic out of the box thinking. To reclaim your time, you need to use the stop doing list. This is a powerful tool for cutting away the clutter. Once you define what it is you want then you want to cut away all the crap and focus on what is important. If you work for other people then this exercise will free up your time and get you promoted. This is contrary to popular belief because people think there boss just wants them busy. THIS IS NOT THE CASE. If you work for a company that cares at all about growth then they want you to focus on the 20% of the work that creates 80% for the results.

3. Alternative Learning - For those of you that don't know me, I am a big fan of self-learning. With all the tools out there and the internet the possibility for learning is unlimited. The key is to focus on what you want to learn. I realize that some of you are going to want the degree which is ok but if you are smart about it and short of cash then there are several ways to get it without going into major debt.

Here is a great quote from Malcolm Forbes - "The dumbest people I know are those who know it all"

One way to leverage your learning is the following. If you want to learn Spanish then you can subscribe to a language-learning podcast and listen to each 20-minute episode, five times a week for 1 year. You can do this and watch movies you like translated in Spanish. Things like this make it easier to learn. Also, if you follow Tim Ferriss's advice from the 4-Hour Work Week, then you can get 95% of the conversational language in 3 to 6 months by focusing on the most frequently used words.

I hope you have found this short summary useful. The key to any new idea is to work it into your daily routine until it becomes habit. Habits form in as little as 21 days.

One thing you can take away from this book is eliminating clutter by using the Stop Doing List. This will leverage the 80/20 rule for you. Start by eliminating one activity that has no meaningful output each week and focus on the top 5 things each day. Your production and paycheck will increase 5 fold.

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Famous Female British Authors

Many groundbreaking and influential female authors hail from Great Britain. From Jane Austen to Virginia Woolf, these authors demonstrated to the world that women were just as creative, intelligent and talented as any man. Although writing was once considered an unsuitable and distasteful profession for women, these women broke down the barriers barring women from the writing profession and bravely paved the way for thousands of future female authors.

Jane Austen

Jane Austen was born December 16, 1775 in Hampshire. The daughter of a rector, Jane Austen took an interest in writing at a young age. Her earliest known writings date back to 1787, when Austen was just 12 years old. Having grown up among the landed gentry in the English countryside, her many novels take place in that setting. Although she never married, Austen wrote many stories about young independent women struggling to find love and a husband who will respect them. Some of her most famous works include "Sense and Sensibility," "Pride and Prejudice," "Emma" and "Northanger Abbey."

Emily Bronte

Emily Bronte was born July 30, 1818 in Yorkshire. Bronte was also from a literary family and her sisters, Charlotte and Anne were writers as well. After the Bronte sisters published a volume of poems, under male pseudonyms, in 1845, Emily began work on her one and only novel "Wuthering Heights." Despite the fact that her novel was not as well received as Charlotte's "Jane Eyre" during her lifetime, "Wuthering Heights" later came to be known as one of the most influential novels of the 19th century.

Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley was born August 30, 1797 in London. The daughter of famed political philosopher William Godwin and feminist author Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary's mother died after giving birth to her. Mary knew since childhood that her birth resulted in her mother's death and felt compelled to become a successful writer to compensate for this loss. After marrying the poet Percy Shelley in 1814, Mary wrote her famous novel "Frankenstein" and many other well received novels, such as "Valperga", "The Last Man" and "Mathilda" as well as many travel books and journals. She also edited and published her husbands many poems, letters and essays after his accidental drowning death in 1822.

Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf was born January 25, 1882 in London. The daughter of editor and literary critic, Sir Leslie Stephen, Woolf grew up in a literary household surrounded by her father's famous writer friends such as Henry James. Woolf began writing at a young age and eventually published her first novel, The Voyage Out, in 1915. Woolf's work focused on the internal dialogue of her characters, rather than their actions, and her work usually centered around themes of life, death and loss. Her books include "A Room of One's Own," "To The Lighthouse," "Orlando" and "Mrs. Dalloway." In 1917, Virginia and her husband Leonard set up their own printing press, Hogarth Press, that they used to publish not only Virginia's works but also that of other writers such as T.S. Eliot and E.M. Forster as well as other female authors such as Katherine Mansfield.

Rebekah Brooks is a freelance writer, lover of history and author of The Virginia Woolf Blog