The Ultimate Get-a-Clue Freelance Request for the Week of March 28, 2011

Project Description: ficitonal book: its a wonderful life type theme

Specific Project Request: I would appreciate assistance in writing a fictional book about a neurotic woman in her mid 20s who desires to relieve her childhood and adolescent years in order to undue the wrong turns she has made since becoming an adult. She believes that her life would have been better had she had proper rearing. In the story, she gets to relieve 20 years of her life. Not sure of the ending but I am thinking that in the end she still ends up in the same place as she did in reality and has to work through the conflict to go on to be successful or she may just get to live her wonderful life all the way through.

i want it to sort of have a theme like the film SLIDING DOORS (The film follows Helen Quilley (Gwyneth Paltrow), who has just been fired from her public relations job. The plot splits into two parallel universes, based on the two paths her life could take depending on whether she catches a London Underground train or not). I liked how there was a parallel universe and we got to follow both tales and in the end the happier ending came about.

There is no pay UNTIL the book is published and makes money.



It's a Wonderful Life meets neuroticism meets Sliding Doors? This job poster isn't going to be impossible to please or anything, is s/he? And my money's on this person being the neurotic woman she wants written about. So yeah, good luck with that.

"undue wrong turns" and "relieve 20 years of her life"--not sure if those things are possible, but more power to her--and you if you can make them happen. If none of this scares you away, then I guess neither will the fact that you'll be working for nothing until the book actually makes money, meaning quite possibly never. Then again, this job poster has just given away the whole plotline, so why not hand out the ultimate Screw You! write it yourself and then take all the writing credit and profits? Ideas can't be copyrighted, so that's an entirely viable option. Any neurotic person in his/her unright mind oughta know that much. Sheesh!