User talk:Teamcoltra

About your book
As you are the author, you may not feel that the book should be deleted, but consider looking at the introduction alone.

Your introduction
'''I have been watching people spend hours and hours of their life, waisted on countless "self-help" books. They think that to better themselves they can read what another person thinks they should do with their life and all their issues will be solved.''' - obvious original research, and bad spelling. This person is probably you, and thats alright, you are at least taking the first step to solving the problem by reading my book. - missing apostrophe, and down there you said you aren't the only author (which is always true), and you're speaking of these in first person?

Who Are These People? and why is he qualified to tell me who I am, or what I should do?!

The beauty of this book being moved to a wiki format writing, it will allow many people just like you to take part and be significant parts of the writing process. This means that someone who is like you, can share how they help themselves. Below is a list of current authors of this book.

Travis "TeamColtra" McCrea '''My name is Travis McCrea, I am not typically a writer, and do not enjoy writing like other writers do. I am a college student enrolled to become a Public Administrator and Political Scientist. I like to write in a way that makes people think, and admittedly laugh. I will never tell you what you should do, or who you are, however, I am going to simply suggest ways as so you do not have to buy a self help book again.

I do not have a psychology degree, but I always seem to understand the emotions and feelings of others, and I can describe the way they feel back to them in a way they better understand. This will be the main effect of this book. Its not about what we can do to change who you are, its about opening up who you are so you can become more successful in your day to day life.'''

While I am not opposed to writing self-introduction of authors on Wikibooks, reading this passage alone reveals a lot.
 * 'I like to write in a way that makes people think, and admittedly laugh.' Wikibooks does not accept inappropriate humour.
 * 'I do not have a psychology degree, but I always seem to understand the emotions and feelings of others, and I can describe the way they feel back to them in a way they better understand. This will be the main effect of this book. Its not about what we can do to change who you are, its about opening up who you are so you can become more successful in your day to day life.' Wikbooks does not accept original research. This suggests that this book will contain loads of it.
 * There was a run-on sentence.

What Can They Possibly Do For Me? Why does they care what I do?

'''Unlike the writers of these preachy self-help books that you typically read, we don't really care for the profit, and am writing this 100% selfishly. When we walk though book stores, we get annoyed at all the books telling people how to live their lives, what they need to do to become better people, how they can win an argument whenever they want. They are often deceitful (I promise you that you will not win an argument EVERY TIME you try), they are silly, and they pray on peoples fears of being socially awkward, or their hungers to be the best.

Here is the secret to this entire book we will say it now, and put it in a bold faced type font so that if you are just thumbing through the book you start out knowing the secret: You already know what it takes to be the best you can be. Now there are guides and books to help you enhance these strengths, and marginalize the weaknesses, so we will give you a hand in that department if you still feel like you need a boost of confidence every now and then.''' - Wikibooks does not accept biased things, and this does not sound very neutral to me.

A final bit of advice
Have you heard of the website, [wikia.com Wikia]? If I were you, I would start my own wiki, called, say, anti-self-help-books wiki (though that might be a teensy weensy bit too long), and copy everything here to there. The policy of Wikia is not as strict, as Wikia, unlike Wikibooks, is commercial. That's why I think you're much better off at Wikia than at Wikibooks. To tell you the truth, the book has little chance of remaining in Wikibooks. Kayau ( talk &#124; email &#124; contribs ) 11:37, 2 June 2010 (UTC)