Wherever you are on your book writing adventure, you’ll find what you need here…
What to do if you’re just starting out on your Author Adventure: planning, preparation, and dealing with your Inner Dickhead
I didn’t know, until after we’d finished MicroBook Magic Season 2, that Sharon wasn’t just struggling with her own doubts.
When she was in college, double majoring in English and Pysch, an English professor told her she “can’t write, and never will.”
Caution: you may experience these side effects when you write your book: an increased sense of self, realising the true value you have to offer, a new way of looking at the world, seeing your true skills, knowledge, and talent.
But you also get A BOOK. A real live book you can hold in your hot little hands!
There's a bunch of things you don't need to write a book like a degree in English Lit or a neurotypical brain. Here's what you do need to write a book...What do you think? Sounds doable?
It’s my birthday today and here are 46 things I’ve learned. One for each year I’ve been alive. And here’s my gift to you…If you've been thinking about signing up for MicroBook Magic Season 7 —I’m offering a FREE 60-minute private coaching call to get you fully ready to go when the program kicks off.
The longer you leave it, the harder it gets. And the more pointless it seems…And the more you should have started last week, last month, last year — so you may as well not start at all. It’s too late now, after all. What is even the point of it allllllll?
The first time I picked up The Heretics by Will Storr I got about 25 pages into it — not even past the introduction — before I had to put it down because I got so angry.
It’s about people who think the Earth is flat, who believe homeopathy can cure cancer, who think they’ve been abducted by aliens. Climate change deniers and antivaxxers and Moon landing deniers.
It’s weird, what happens when we set out to write Something Important, like a book or an essay or even a social media post. Our bodies and minds are taken over by the ghost of our primary school selves, worried the teacher will take the ideas our imaginations made and squash them into a boring little cube that fits the system.
Lockdown, 2020.
I was a copywriter who also helped people write nonfiction books, but the world had just shattered + shut down.
And who the hell was going to indulge writing a book when the ship was sinking?
It was decision time: do I crash and burn? Or go all-in on what I really want to do?
This here is Toby Tortoise, who I take care of sometimes.
He lives just along the lane from me and he has strawberry on his face (living his best life!).
All he needed was a little sunshine and warmth to do the thing he does best: eat and snooze.
What do you need to do the thing you do best?
I’ve done a lot of scary things. Made a lot of terrifying decisions — and they were the best decisions I ever made.
You already know you want a book out there with your name on.
Maybe you’ve already started it!
But when it’s out there with your name on, people might see it, right? They might not love it. They might not love YOU.
Find a daffodil and look at it. Look at it until you remember how beautiful the world can be.
Stand in the sunshine and let the sun soak into your face, until you remember that there are more people who want the world to be kind and gentle than those who want to spread fear.
Then, pull your socks up, buckaroo, and get writing.
You’re a writer. You are, or you wouldn’t be here reading this.
So I have a question for you today: how do you feel about big tech AI companies stealing your work?
If you’re in the UK, please read on — then take action.
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