7 Easy Steps to Write Your Book teaches you how to write your book using examples and exercises. Totally interactive,you learn how to prepare to write, create an author identity, and use your own powerful Writer's Power Tools. The book offers solutions for procrastination and strategies for dealing with "writer's block." Learn how to "Schedule Your Success" and get the book out of your head onto paper.
Have you started writing a nonfiction book that you are struggling to finish? Do you have an idea for a book but dont know how to get started? Now you can start and finish your book sooner rather than later following an easy 7 step process that forms the foundation for the way most nonfiction books are written. This insiders guide starts by helping you find the time to write your book and then walks you through creating your proposal, developing your writing plan, and writing your first draft. Along the way youll determine when you could finish your book based on your personal writing output and the time you have available to write. Youll also discover the 7 secrets to finishing your book sooner rather than later including how to transform your dreams into your vision and how to establish the goals and action steps needed to make your vision a reality. Writing a book is similar to taking a journey. Having a plan and putting in the necessary time gets you from where you are to where you want to be. This book takes you step-by-step through the process of developing your plan and following through to write your book sooner rather than later. If you're ready to finish your book and to begin to see the impact it has in the lives of others then read this quick guide and take the steps to make it happen!
The Story Behind THE LEGEND OF BAGGER VANCE If you've read his books THE WAR OF ART and TURNING PRO, you know that for thirty years Steven Pressfield (GATES OF FIRE, THE AFGHAN CAMPAIGN etc.) wrote spec novel after spec novel before any publisher took him seriously. How did he finally break through? Ignoring just about every rule of commercial book publishing, Pressfield's "first" novel not only became a major bestseller (over 250,000 copies sold), it was adapted into a feature film directed by Robert Redford and starring Matt Damon, Will Smith, and Charlize Theron. Where did he get the idea? What magical something did THE LEGEND OF BAGGER VANCE have that his previous manuscripts lacked? Why did Pressfield decide to write a novel when he already had a well established screenwriting career? How does writing a publishable novel really work? Taking a page from John Steinbeck's classic JOURNAL OF A NOVEL, Steven Pressfield offers answers for these and scores of other practical writing questions in THE AUTHENTIC SWING.
Richard, last-born son of the Duke of York, was seven months short of his nineteenth birthday when he bloodied himself at the battles of Barnet and Tewkesbury, earning his legendary reputation as a battle commander and ending the Lancastrian line of succession. But Richard was far more than a warrior schooled in combat. He was also a devoted brother, an ardent suitor, a patron of the arts, an indulgent father, a generous friend. Above all, he was a man of fierce loyalties, great courage and firm principles, who was ill at ease among the intrigues of Edward's court.
I want to write a book. Where do I start? Are you thinking of writing a novel or a nonfiction book but aren't sure where to begin? Perhaps you've heard of the Snowflake Method, the 30-Day Method, the 5-Draft Method, outlining, plotters and pantsers, but are just having trouble fitting writing into your life. This is the writing guide to get you going! Maybe you've already started a book - once, twice, several times - yet somehow drifted away, lost focus, lost momentum, and ended up dumping your manuscript in the too-hard basket. This is the writing guide to get you back on track! 12 simple steps to becoming an author Divided into three easy stages, How to Write a Book has 12 simple steps that take you through the process of writing from start to finish. Part 1: Getting Started explores the tricks of the mind that stand in the way of a would-be writer. From finding the time, to dealing with distractions, battling Resistance, what to do when your mind's a blank, and even writing with a tomato! Part 2: Keeping Going. Most novels are abandoned one-third of the way in. Find out why. And find out what you can do when you hit The Wall, strike writer's block, or are trapped in the tyranny of constant changes. Part 3: Letting Go. The tricks of the mind don't stop once you type THE END. This part looks at the quest for perfection (and how to handle it), dealing with rejections, and what to do once you think you're done. Bonus chapter A special bonus chapter deals with what you should write, the business of writing, being a guinea pig, doing a Nanowrimo ("write a novel in a month"), the three Ps (Practice, Productivity and Professionalism), and what being a successful writer really means. Write the novel you've always dreamed of writing. Start today! Excerpt from the Introduction On 1 September 1995, Jim Grant sat down to write. He'd never written a novel before and, having just been made redundant from his job at Granada Television, reckoned he'd have to earn himself a laptop. So he went out and bought three pads of paper, a pencil, a pencil-sharpener and an eraser, investing the princely sum of £3.99 in his new vocation. Then settled down to work. Long-hand. The book he wrote - called Killing Floor - earned Grant a laptop all right, and a great deal more. It, and his subsequent books, have regularly topped the bestseller charts for the last twenty years. But you probably don't recognise his name. That's because Grant writes under the pseudonym Lee Child. My aim in opening with that story wasn't to add to the mythology of Jim Grant/Lee Child, or to help him sell more books. (He seems to be doing okay without my assistance.) What I wanted to emphasise was the writer's basic tools: pads of paper a pencil a pencil-sharpener an eraser That, really, is all you need. And it's all writers have needed for centuries. You don't need a new laptop with terabytes of disk space and monitor large enough to be seen from the Moon. All you need is £3.99's worth of supplies. (About $5 in the US.) If you have a typewriter, great. A computer's even better. But neither of those things are essential. All you really need is some method of recording your thoughts. A pencil and paper work fine. Just ask Lee Child.
Have you started writing a nonfiction book that you are struggling to finish? Do you have an idea for a book but don't know how to get started? Now you can start and finish your book sooner rather than later following an easy 7 step process that forms the foundation for the way many nonfiction books are written. This insider's guide starts by helping you find the time to write your book and then walks you through creating your book proposal, developing your writing plan, and writing your first draft Along the way you'll determine when you could finish your book based on your personal writing output and the time you have available to write. You'll also discover the 7 secrets to finishing your book sooner rather than later including how to transform your dreams into your vision and how to establish the goals and action steps needed to make your vision a reality. Writing a book is similar to taking a journey. Having a plan and putting in the necessary time gets you from where you are to where you want to be. The 7 Secrets to Writing Your Book takes you step-by-step through the process of developing your plan and following through to write your book sooner rather than later. If you're ready to finish your book and to begin to see the impact it has in the lives of others, then read this quick guide and take the steps to make it happen!
You want to write a book. You need to write a book. It's in your DNA, yet for reasons you cannot comprehend, you just can't finish the job. Learn how to develop your bullet-proof Author Mindset and create a system guaranteed to deliver success and to build the habits required to work this system every single day. The road from where you are right now to your new reality is simple. I said simple, not easy. Commitment is hard. Action is even harder. But the results are... incredible. The choice is yours. If you continue to do what you've always done... you'll just get what you already have - an unfinished manuscript, more disappointment, discarded dreams and self-loathing than you can handle. You will never finish your book. Now, imagine the possible. Imagine you wake up each morning filled with the satisfied glow of accomplishment with yesterday's word count and the knowledge you will write more today. Imagine you open a package and discover it is filled with copies of your book. Watch the movie in your mind as you pick up one of the books and hold it in your hands. Feel the cover under your fingertips. Does your heart pound when you look upon your name printed in big, bold letters? Does a sense of pride in achievement well up inside you? Of course, it does. Join me. Allow me to be your guide, to help you construct a mindset, a solid foundation for your finished manuscript and published becomes, not just possible, but inevitable. This is the power of the Author Mindset. The Author Success Foundations Series Awaken Your Author Mindset: Finish Writing Your Book Fast Design Your Morning Routine: Jump-Start Your Writing Success Author Focus: Develop Your Author Vision Statement and Laser-Focus Your Writing Career Prolific Author: The Step-by-Step Guide to Write More Words in Less Time and Finish Your Book Fast Done is Better than Perfect: 7 Keys to Finish Writing Your Book Fast Become Unstoppable: 7 Habits of Highly Successful Authors I Don't Have Time To Write And Other Lies Writers Tell Themselves
