Do you have a writing project at hand? Are you working on a book that seems to be stalled? Would you like to finish your book project within a certain time frame—by the time the kids are out of school, when school starts again or before the year ends, for example?
How are you coming along with your project? Feeling disorganized, hopelessly stuck, as if there just isn’t enough time in the day? You may feel along, but you aren’t alone.
Even though there are over a million books being produced each year and there’s every technology imaginable to help, still a whole lot of authors never complete their projects or they take an inordinate amount of time to finish it. Today, I’d like to offer some tips on how to ultimately finish your book:
1: Choose a topic that you are passionate about. You have to love what you are doing. On the other hand, allow yourself to enjoy the process. Some authors have trouble giving themselves permission to spend time writing because it seems as though they should be doing something that’s more like work.
2: Come to terms with why you are writing this book—you have something to say, you have knowledge you want to share, you feel a need to help a segment of people, you just get excited when you think about your book project and where it could take you.
3: Determine what is keeping you from writing and do your best to address it.
4: Set up a writing space of your own away from the hustle bustle of the household.
5: Ascertain what sacrifices you could make in order to spend more time writing. This might be less TV watching, fewer hours spent on computer games, check emails only twice a day, get up an hour earlier, go to bed an hour later, write during your lunch hour, cut time spent on your daily workout, clubbing etc.
6: Develop a schedule. Plan to write everyday/evening at the same time. This will help you to create the habit of writing.
7: Find a writing buddy—someone to help you become more accountable.
8: Join a writers’ group. The writers’ group atmosphere can be inspiring.
9: Set a reasonable deadline for yourself. (Surveys show that it takes 725 hours to write a typical nonfiction book. That’s 90 eight-hour days or approximately eighteen work weeks or four months.)
10: Look to the future. Sometimes it helps to imagine the end results of your effort—the joy of holding your completed book in your hands, the boost your book will have to your business, the fun you will have doing readings with children, etc.
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Familiarity or passion for a certain topic is very important in writing a book. And determination will help you achieve your goal in writing.