Focus & Self-Disipline; The Hardest Things About Being A Writer

I've been a writer for many years now.

I began writing part-time and working part-time and gradually transitioned to quitting my part-time job and writing for a living.

One of the things I love about writing is the actual writing.

What I find the most difficult is actually saying no to doing other things so that I can sit down and write.

Working alone every day isn't easy, especially at first.

It's different when you're at work and you have a boss looking over your shoulder making sure you get all your work done.

But when you're at home and it's a nice sunny day, and you live near the beach like I do, it's sometimes hard to sit down and write.

What I found that helped in the beginning was to download writing courses and work my way through them. That kept me on track without my having to think of what to do or what to write.

I began with an easy course called Quick Cash Writing that helped me earn money while also helping me to develop a daily writing habit.

I also studied ebooks, courses and audios about concentration, focus and creativity. These products were invaluable and helped me in more ways than I probably realise.

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No I Won't Personally Tutor You And Here Are The Reasons Why

Okay...As you must already know by now I've been doing a run of local talks about setting up websites/blogs and making money online.

I called these talks The Laptop Lifestyle, after my best selling ebook of the same name.

Since then (as well as during my run of talks) I've had quite a few emails from people asking if I do private group lessons on how to do it all.

Now, while I can understand everyone wanting to know more about this, I'll give my reasons for not doing private group lessons:

1. It takes up too much of my time.
2. I'd rather be doing the work myself than teaching others how to do it. 
3. Most people don't want to know how to do it, they want me to do it for them.

All three of these reasons are valid on their own.

I'm far too busy doing my own work to take time out to teach others.

And the reason I work online is because I enjoy working alone. As nice as it was to get out and meet lots of new people, at heart I'm a working alone kind of person.

I love to sit here every day, learn more about working online, write ebooks and courses and earn money from what I do.

And there are many people who also want to do the same. I know this because many of them were at my talks.

But the difference, is that I found that many of them don't really want to work like I do. They want someone else to do the work while they reap the benefit.

I kept pointing everyone to my Laptop Lifestyle ebook that provides everything they need to get started. I told them that working online involves getting going and learning as you go along.

Yet still I keep hearing from people saying they couldn't set up a free blog because they'd learned all about how to do it but were confused (without even starting), weren't sure how blogging software works, weren't sure how many blog posts to write to get started, wanted to know what to do if they didn't make money...and on and on the list went.

I've been repeating myself over and over about this to so many different people lately, and I'll say it again.

You don' have to get it right. You just have to get it going.

It's impossible to know everything there is to know about something before you start.

Look at learning to drive. Did you know how to do it before you started or did you get in the car and learn as you went along?

At school, did you learn your math lessons by the teacher explaining everything about math without you having to lift a finger, or did you learn by actually doing the math yourself?

And as for knowing how something works to be able to use it (like blogging software), I use electricity every day but I have no clue how it works or how to fix it when it breaks. I also don't know how computers work either, but that doesn't stop me from earning all my income from one.

So if you want to make money online from writing, blogging, affiliate marketing, advertising or any other of the hundreds of ways to do it, stop making excuses and just get it going. (This advice also applies to everything you want to do that you've never done before).

And if you don't know where to start, you can start by clicking the image below for more information.

But please don't ask me to tutor you personally.

I'm far too busy writing and living my own Laptop Lifestyle.

Money Likes Speed

“There are no speed limits on the road to excellence. We can’t be fined for speeding.” ~ David W. Johnson

Money Likes Speed is a saying I've heard over and over for the last few years.

But it's not just money that likes speed. Success (in all areas of life) likes speed too.

If you think, ponder, question, doubt, plan, meet, discuss, worry, etc, before you act, you'll never make enough money.

And it's the same with writing. Money likes writing speed too.

When you get an idea of something you want to write about, don't sit around and think about it.

Act.

If you procrastinate you'll not only lose your initial enthusiasm, you'll also think of all the reasons you shouldn't write it, plus you'll lose all your ideas.

I've heard it said that ideas are gifts. You didn't ask for them, you didn't pay for them, you don't owe anyone anything for them. They are given to you.

So don't throw away these gifts. Use them straight away before they disappear, because ideas can be lost really quickly and so easily.

People who earn a lot of money from their writing are those who act on every great idea they have.

If they get an idea for an ebook or a great article, they don't sit around and think about it for a few days or weeks. They sit down, map out an outline of what they want to write and then they get down to work.

Some of the writers who have been successful through their speed of writing are Joe Vitale (who prides himself on how fast he moves from idea to finish product), Sylvester Stallone who wrote the script for the movie Rocky in just 3 days and Isaac Asimov who wrote over 400 books in his writing life which equated to around one book a month.

What would have happened to these writers and their work if they hadn't acted fast and sat down to write every time they had a great idea? They'd be broke nobodies.

There are those who believe that because writing creates a passive income, it means you can sit around, do nothing and earn money.

On the contrary. Successful writers are always writing and they act fast when ideas come to them.

That's the secret of earning money through speed.

The money you make may come long after you've finished your writing, but the speed of writing is what makes the money come.

And what writer doesn't want to earn money?

I've been working as a writer for almost 20 years now and I always find that the more I write and publish, the more money I make.

So next time an idea hits you, act on it. Make the most of your gift (idea) and when you get another one do it all over again, and see the difference it makes to your writing income.

FYI (just in case you're invested, this article went from idea to published in 20 minutes.

Goodbye Writer's Block - How to Be A Creative Genius and Have an Abundance of Ideas PLUS the Inspiration and Motivation to Write

How To Easily Make Money Online, Even If You Don't Know How

One thing I've really enjoyed doing over the past 15+ years, is working as an online writer.

And as you know, I've recently been touring around teaching what I do.

What struck me the most was that nearly everyone who attended my classes had absolutely no clue - zilch, nada, none - about what to do or where to start.

So I helped them as much as I could in the short time I had.

And to help them even more I gave everyone a handout with an outline of what I'd be talking about plus links to useful websites to help them get started.

I also put the handout online so that I could show it on a projector screen as I worked my way through it.

The talks that I was giving are now over but I thought that because there were so many people that I met who had no idea about even the basics of making money online, there are probably even more who I haven't met who have the same problem.

So if you're someone who wants to make money online but you have nothing to sell and you don't know where to start, here is a link to my handout from my talk which was called The Laptop Lifestyle.

I hope this information helps.

http://writeaholics.net/handout.html