The Costly Mistake That Can Sabotage Your Writing

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"Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom."

    ~ Jeanette Winterson

I know a woman who lives like a slug.

Every day she gets up with no clue how she’s going to spend her day. Some days, she doesn’t even bother getting out of bed. She just plays computer games, streams TV shows and naps a lot.

She doesn’t eat well either because she rarely shops, and even when she does, she buys random food items and has no clue of what meals she’ll make from it. So she mostly exists on microwaved pizza and Doritos.

It’s a sad life indeed.

I, on the other hand, am the complete opposite. I get up at 6am every day, get dressed, make the bed, have breakfast, do the dishes, do the chores, and anything else I need to do, and then sit down to write.

My writing is organised too. I have a diary where I write everything I’m going to be working on. So all I have to do is look in my diary and start writing.

My writing is not just planned out every day, but every week, month and year.

It’s this meticulous planning and organising that has enabled me to work as a writer and earn all my income this way. I couldn’t write as much as I do if I didn’t have a writing plan.

That’s why I wrote, The 12 Month Writing Challenge, to help you to plan your writing for the next 12 months and get more writing done than you ever have before.

And to make it even easier, The 12 Month Writing Challenge comes with a bonus copy of The One Month Author so that you can write 12 books in a year.

And right now you can download a copy of both PDF ebooks for only $9.99 (usual price - $24.99), using the discount code ‘12mthpromo.’

I know I’ve been pushing this offer a lot lately, but it’s only because I don’t want you to miss out.

Stop dreaming and start writing.

The 12 Month Writing Challenge

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Writing Plans And Keeping On Track

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As you know my plan this year is to write a book a month.

We’re now into February and I’ve written and published my first book and I’m now working on my second which means I’m writing to schedule, but I want to do better. I want this year to be my most productive.

To that end, I downloaded and read the book ‘How To Write Pulp Fiction’ by James Scott Bell, to find out how the pulp fiction writers wrote over a million words a year. It was an insightful and fascinating read. 

Now I’m reading ‘Wake Up and Live’ by Dorothea Brande which is all about a formula for success that is extremely simple (and has been there all the time but you just couldn’t see it) that can alter every aspect, attitude, and relation of your life, including writing, and it can help to make your writing flow and fast so that you can write more than you ever thought possible.

And all it takes is a shift in attitude and perspective that releases your energy for writing as well as improving every aspect of your life.

This too is a fascinating book. I’m only partway through reading it but already it’s opened my eyes to how wrongly I look at things, and how, without me even realising what is happening, it’s causing me to fail, and doubt myself.

This book was written in the 1930’s but it’s still relevant today. It’s available from the kindle store for as little as 99c. https://amzn.to/3gs6WU4 

I hope your writing plans for 2022 are on track too. But if they’re not, there’s still time to download your own copy of the 12 Month Writing Challenge: Write and Publish 12 Books In a Year.

For a short while you can still get a copy for only $9.99 using the discount code “12mthpromo”. The usual price is $24.99.

So don’t miss out.

https://ruthiswriting/books/12MTH.html 

P.S. The 12 Month Writing Challenge also comes with a free copy of the One Month Author

Why I Hated Writing And What I Did About It

A terrible thing happened when I was writing my latest book. 

I hated writing it.

 

I kept going and finished the first draft, but I wasn’t enjoying the process at all.

 

And as we all know, if you don’t enjoy writing it will always result in bad writing.

 

We can’t hide our feelings from our writing.

 

I sat there dumbfounded, staring at all the useless garbage I’d just written. No matter how many different ways I looked at it there was no way I could save any of it.

 

So what had gone wrong?

 

I realised that I’d written it from the vaguest of outlines and I’d forgotten where I was going with it, so I’d simply ‘winged’ most of it, not even knowing what points I was trying to make along the way.

 

So I scrapped the whole thing, thousands of words and hours of time lost. But it had to be done.

 

I then planned it out, outlined it thoroughly so I’d know exactly what I wanted to say, and rewrote the whole thing.

 

And this time I enjoyed writing it and I managed to finish it in just one week. In fact, I was enjoying working on it so much, I was disappointed when it was finished.

 

No doubt the same thing happens to you sometimes too. You start writing a new book, but you’re not enjoying it and it’s not your best work. Something is wrong and you need to figure out what that is.

 

It may be that you simply need a better plan, a better outline, and clearer direction of what you need to do.

 

Take the time to figure out where you’re going wrong, and get a clear plan of action.

 

 

The 12 Month Writing Challenge: Write and Publish 12 Books in a Year

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BONUS copy of The One Month Author

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The One Little Secret That Separates Prolific Writers From Clueless Wannabes

I’ve been a writer for a long time and one thing I love, is having written. Don’t get me wrong, I love to write, but when one of my books is written and published, it’s a great feeling of accomplishment. It also motivates me to do it all over again.

And it’s this immense feeling of satisfaction that prolific writers feel over and over again.

It’s also the feeling that writing wannabes know nothing about.

So is that the difference between a prolific writer and a wannabe?

Nope.

The secret (that is absolutely no secret at all) that separates prolific writers from dreamers, is that the prolific writers write. They not only write, they work.

Writing is what they do for a living. It’s what they spend most of their time doing.

I always think that what makes a writer prolific is that they’re organised. They make time for their writing and they stick to it.

They also know exactly what they’ll be doing before they even sit down.

Their writing plans aren’t just day to day, but year to year, sometimes planning 5 years in advance how many books they’re going to write and how they’re going to expand their writing business over time.

Writing is like anything else in life, in that you can’t get what you want until you know what it is that you want.

So, what if you decided that you want to write 12 books in the next 12 months?

How would you do it?

You’d need a plan. A plan to write, publish, and market a dozen books in a year.

And it all starts with clicking the link below to learn more.

https://cheritonhousepublishing.com/books/12MTH.html

(Use the discount code: 12mthpromo)