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What to do if you’re just starting out on your Author Adventure: planning, preparation, and dealing with your Inner Dickhead
Have you ever created something and then just thought it’s the best thing you’ve ever done?
That's sort of how I feel about MicroBook Magic.
Back in November 2022, when the world was starting to get back to normal after all the Covid lockdowns, I realised something was changing.
Beauty lies in the gaps. In the imperfections.
Because the imperfections are what makes life interesting.
The way the trapeze spins slightly faster than you were anticipating, so your movement quality changes almost imperceptibly and surprisingly, and your face makes a different shape to the one you were planning — but it works.
One of my MicroBook Magicians asked me this week — what if I don’t feel like planning today? What if I just want to dive right in? I want to write write write but I know I need to research some stuff!
And to that I say: HURRAH!
Fill yer boots, because there is no wrong way to write a book.
Progress is never linear.
It never takes us in a straight line from bad to good to excellent.
It’s a wiggle.
I’d like to think the wiggle trends upwards but we have to give it time to do that. Two data points aren’t enough, because that gives us the illusion of a straight line but it’s not, really.
When literally everyone with a megaphone on social media tells us we must be authentic, our true and unedited selves, or we’ll fail at business, life, and the 100m relay, try this instead:
Don’t.
Nobody wants our 100% true and unedited and authentic selves.
Sometimes I get so many big feelings I worry that I actually will explode.
Like on Tuesday this week after my MicroBook Magic live call.
It’s structured so that my clients can send me their writing and ask for specific feedback, or ask questions.
I am currently obsessed with the TV show New Amsterdam.
It’s fabulous brain-out beautiful people in unlikely storylines telly.
But it also gets me thinking about perspectives, and how we badly need stories from people who don’t look, sound or live like us.
My friend, if you’ve ever thought you need inspiration to strike in order to write your book, LET ME TELL YOU about inspiration.
We’ve been sold a lie by antique romantic poets who — let’s be honest — were all off their tits on opium.
“I’m Alexis Rose!" I trilled, as I booped a complete stranger on the nose.
Laughs around the room and I breathed a sigh of relief and launched into a story about how I used to be engaged to the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia until I was kidnapped by pirates.
Some things are just good for your brain.
No matter what’s going on inside it, what illnesses or challenges or mental health issues we may have — some activities are magic.
Like…Walking among trees. Moving your body. Human contact. Journalling.
You’re doing great! Did you know that?
Because I know what humans are like, and our brains focus on all the things we haven’t done, rather than cheering about the things we have done — here’s a little Friday game for you.
Name 3 things you’re proud of yourself for this week. I’ll go first...
Sarah wrote her first book, Small Island Big Business, with my help — then came back, knowing she wanted to dive in again.
This time, the book idea was a quirky mix of travel stories and a much-needed mindset shift for translators who hate the idea of marketing.
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