Two things kill books.
I’ve known a lot of people in my life who talked about writing. I can remember hearing people talking about writing a book. “I’ve been writing a book for the last seventeen years! I’ve got about 70 pages in it.” Or, “I’ve always wanted to write a book, but I didn’t know if it would be any good.
The bottom line is really, it takes 30 days to write a 50,000 word novel. If you’re writing shorter fiction novels, technically, you should be able to write six books a year – and then go back and polish them! If you could produce that many sellable books a year, you’d be signed to the kind of writing advances people dream about!
What is it that keeps people from writing their book?
- Doubt. This is the biggest one. “I always thought about writing a book on my life, how that would interest people. What do you think?” “I dunno, let me read it and I’ll tell you.” If you’re afraid to work on it because it might not be good, then you’ll never really know, will you? Everyone’s first book is terrible. But if you buy enough books on writing, write enough, compare what you’re writing against what you’re reading, and put into practice what you’re learning from all this, you’re going to write an amazing book! And you know what? People just might be interested in your life story!
- Procrastination. 70 pages of writing at 350 words a page is 24500 words. If you spent seventeen years writing 70 pages, that means you wrote four words a day. “It was a dark…” Finished for today! Learn instead to have a steady word count instead – 1667 words today. Ready, set… go! Get Scrivener, and set your project word count and your daily goal – 85,000 words for most novels and 1667 words a day… and watch the little bar in the word count panel grow! It’s like a computer game… doing this, you can get in 2,500 words a day EASY! Some of the Nanowrimo winners have described winning Nano in just 24 days doing this.
Conclusion
Write the way you’ve always written, and you will get the results you’ve always gotten! Try! Dare! Buy Scrivener and some books on writing, and watch what was a dream become reality!
Do this… click on this link www.literatureandlatte.com AS SOON AS you’ve read the last word in this post. Then buy Scrivener RIGHT NOW!
Procrastination just ended. Fear is not always a good thing, when it limits you. Obey your fear, and your dreams will be regrets later on. Try it, do it, and stop dreaming! Do it NOW!
