Name: 3 Secrets I Wish I Knew Before Writing Everything Is Figureoutable feat. Jersey Marie
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Hey, it's Jersey Marie and I'm back for another episode of MarieTV.

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You know, writer Joseph Epstein wrote in The New York Times that up to 81% of people feel

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they got a book in them and that they should write it.

And I got to say, I think Mr. Epstein is on the money, because I know many of you have

either written a book, you're writing a book now, or you plan to write a book.

But I've helped Marie with her last two books, and I got to say we learned a couple of things

this last time around, things we think you should know, things we don't see anybody else

So if you want to write a book now or in the future, here are three important phrases every

Get out your pen and paper, kids, and let's do this.

Now, this one's especially important if you want to sprinkle in some inspirational quotes

into your book to help prove or expand your points.

A primary source is a rock-solid, airtight origin point for a fact or a quote.

It means you can prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that whoever you say said something

She's got more than like six dozen in this new book, but nobody ever told her about the

importance of finding primary sources until she was practically done with our manuscript.

Then when she started looking for them, she found out that a very high percentage of inspirational

quotes are actually completely misattributed, meaning there's no primary source.

So many days, so many nights, she wanted to pull this gorgeous hair right out of her head

trying to find primary sources for all the damn quotes in the book.

“To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.”

According to the quote investigator, Aristotle never fricking said that.

In fact, they think it's some guy named Elbert Hubbard.

Here's another one that'll blow your freaking mind.

“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different

Right now, our best bet is that it's from Narcotics Anonymous.

Bottom line, I need you to be meticulous with your work.

Give yourself some time and some space to do all that research and find those primary

sources, because I promise you everything you think you know about famous quotes, it

And if you want a real deal quote for your next book, here's one for you, baby.

Don't pull quotes off the internet, because we can't confirm anyone ever said anything.

It's a word, but I got to tell you the word itself is actually very problematic and that's

In her new book, regular Marie was telling this story where there was this guy.

And honestly, he was being a total asshole, so she called him a douchebag, and her copy

editor flagged it and said, "You know what?

Our first reaction was like, "What are you talking about?

Turns out there's a whole other can of controversy around the word douche that we had no idea

If someone was a douche, you called them a douche, or maybe you said he was douchetastic

or a douche biscuit or he's a douche canoe.

Now, some people think it's a sexist word.

We're just trying to tell a simple story here.

We're not trying to get into this whole douche debate debacle."

So, we said to ourselves, "Hey, is there another word that's not going to stir up this much

Rather than calling that guy a douche, we called them a dickwad.

When you write your book, if something gets flagged that's problematic, don't get defensive.

You get to grow and you get to come up with something even better to say, something that's

more accurate, something that's not going to distract people from your main message.

Maybe you too can graduate from douchebag to dickwad.

You know, everybody thinks you write a book, you get a publisher and then bam.

Just like magic, those books are flying off the shelves at Barnes & Noble like nona slices

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