“The Three Secrets of Power Book Writing"
--"How to Become a Book-Writing Power House”
The Three Secrets for your Book Writing Success!
by Steve Manning
In this life, there is a philosophy that holds true virtually all the time. If you want to be successful in anything, take a look at what other successful people are doing and simply do the same. If you’re going to write a book, the same holds true. I’ve looked at the writing strategies of literally hundreds of successful writers and I’ve found three commonalities. Three traits, or practices, or secrets, if you will, that all of them have. If you want to be a successful writer, it’s essential that you follow the same three secrets and make them a reality in your life.
Here they are…
The first secret is that successful book writers write every day. They don’t take days off, weeks off, try to do all their writing on the weekend, or write sporadically. They methodically commit themselves to writing every day. Some write in the morning, some in the evening. That’s a matter of personally choice. Many writers feel they write better at one time of the day rather than another. That’s nonsense, but if it makes them feel better, no problem. Some have a special place where they go to write. It could be an office, a spare room, in the garden, a different building.
Again, it doesn’t actually matter. When or where is immaterial.
How doesn’t matter either. You could use a pen and paper, a computer, and old Underwood Five, or the latest voice recognition software, or even a secretary or just students who need practice with their dictation skills.
The key is you write every day. You make an appointment with yourself if necessary, but you make it happen each and every day. Seven days a week is best, yes, you can take Christmas or a single special holiday off if you must. But I don’t recommend it. Every day, relentlessly, you must be writing.
Just as with exercise, or driving to work, or any other longstanding activity you have, your writing should become a daily habit.
Anything less, and you’ve not going to achieve the results you’re looking for.
The second secret is that you have a daily quota of words that you write.
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The major league book writers have quotas of several thousand words. They know they can do it, because they’ve done it time and time again. Yes, just as with the daily discipline, the writing does get easier with time. Most professional writers think 2,000 words a day a simple task. They can do it without even breaking a metaphorical sweat.
If you’re just starting, don’t aim so high right a way. Start with 100 words as your daily quota. You can (and will) always increase it later as you start to realize how much you can produce and how quickly it flows.
No, it won’t all be gold. But the techniques you’ll find in How to Write A Book! my writing system, will make your stuff always acceptable right out of the box, so you’re not wasting time producing garbage you’ll never use in your finished manuscript.
Keep trying to increase your quota. There’s a find line you straddle constantly between producing more and running out of usable time for your writing.
Notice I haven’t said anything about the amount of time you’ll spend writing each day. That brings us to the third secret of effective book writing. You’re not going to write for 30 minutes, or an hour, or four hours.
The third secret is that you keep on writing until your writing quota for the day is met.
You keep on writing until you’ve written those 100 or 1,000 or 4,000 words are created. That’s the rule. And just about everything else, short of a fire (and it had better be a fast-moving fire) must be put on hold until you finish that quota.
Some days you’ll be finished in just a handful of minutes. On other days, the quota seems like a time penalty that stretches on without end.
Regardless, you keep on writing until the quota is met and you can walk away from your writing feeling you’ve really accomplished something today, and every day.
Take these three secrets, make them yours, follow their wealth of possibilities and I promise you your book writing efforts will soar straight to the stars.
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