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Begin Writing Your Book by Dennis Murphy
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Do you feel you know how to begin writing a book, but every time you want to start, something pops up that has to be done right away or somebody needs you or any one of a dozen (hundred? thousand?) priorities? So you never begin? You've heard "As a man thinketh, so he is". What can you do to start yourself thinking every day about how to begin writing a book. YOUR book! Here are a few ideas. 1. Join a writers' group. You can often find them at local book stores or libraries. You might even find a writers' group on-line. 2. Buy a book about writing. I read at least two a year. Am now reading one by Stephen King (of all people). 3. Read it. 4. Take a Creative Writing Class. Try local Non-credit college classes. 5. Type up and post signs around your home or office to get thinking about writing. Here are some examples I posted when writing my first book: "[Your Name]--- Best Selling Author" "I'm so happy my book, [your book title] is on the Best Seller List." "All the top TV shows want to interview me about my best selling book." "Ahhhhhhh - - the joy of writing a best selling book." 6. Print out your book title or book cover (if you have one) and post it over your computer. If you don't have a title or cover idea, but you do know your purpose for writing it, print it in big letters and post it where you can see it when you write. This will help to propel you. For example: All over the world, people will blast away their procrastination habits My book will bring hope to the hopeless People who thought they were losers because of their procrastination will become winners because of my book. 7. Subscribe to Writers Digest (a monthly magazine for writers.) I don't think anybody ever reads the whole thing, but every month there are articles for writing fiction, nonfiction, screenplays, poetry, children's' books, e-books and so forth. Read what you choose; only what applies to you. 8. Buy CDs about writing and listen every time you're in the car. Don't play anything else till you start writing your book. Once you start thinking many times a day about how to begin writing a book, you WILL become an author and find the time and opportunity to write your masterpiece. By the way, in #5 above, Rita told you of all those crazy signs she posted around her office about her book being a best seller and TV shows wanting to interview her. Well, 14 months after her first book, The Procrastinator's Handbook was published, it had sold 100,00 copies and she was interviewed by Katie Couric. thesis
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