The Three Decisions Writers Must Make Before They Start A Book Project

Written by Marvin D. Cloud


First,repparttar bad news: there is no magic formula, potion or pill that will turnrepparttar 128535 story idea in your head into a manuscript. Words will not automatically appear on paper. All ofrepparttar 128536 necessary elements for a “purpose-driven” book will not fall fromrepparttar 128537 sky and converge in your lap as a completed literary work. It is entirely up to you.

The burden is on your shoulders. You arerepparttar 128538 one who must dorepparttar 128539 research, interview persons, recall conversations, develop an outline, create a draft, make your characters come to life, and keep readers interested enough to continuously turn torepparttar 128540 next page. The good news is, you can do it.

Remember, whether you believe something is possible or not, you’re right. However, I invite you to follow this compelling model for effectively writing a personal bestseller: M.I.N.E. (Motivation + Inspiration + Narration + Eternization). The right reasons (motivation) move you (inspiration) to capture words on paper (narration) for future generations (eternization).

But before you can getrepparttar 128541 full impact of M.I.N.E., there are three commitments that you must make to yourself before you can make any progress in writing a book: 1. Make a decision to write. Since you have already thought about writing a book, there is really nothing else for you to think about. Stop thinking and start doing. Before you leave this page and before you finish this paragraph, make a decision to write. It can change your entire life. If you don’t take new action, you haven’t made a decision.

A Simple Contest with a Strong Message for All Writers: Wake Up Your Writing Spirit

Written by Shelley Wake


The Blogfest 2005 Writing Contest has only been running for two weeks and alreadyrepparttar results are overwhelming. And not because we’re getting far more entries than we expected. It’s because along with entries, we’re also getting heartfelt messages from writers all overrepparttar 128534 world. I’ve run a few contests before and received quite a few entries, but I’ve never been personally emailed and thanked by so many writers.

What’srepparttar 128535 difference with this contest? I thinkrepparttar 128536 main reason is thatrepparttar 128537 idea actually came from writers. Even thoughrepparttar 128538 writers at our company work in publishing, they find it a little sad that there’s so much focus on writing what can sell instead of writing what truly matters to you. They wanted a contest that would allow people to write whatever they wanted to write.

From that idea came Blogfest, a contest designed to encourage all writers to getrepparttar 128539 project of their dreams done. Unlike most contests, we decided not to offer publication and not to payrepparttar 128540 prize for a completed work. Instead, we decided to offerrepparttar 128541 prizes based on how muchrepparttar 128542 writing project means torepparttar 128543 writer. This is one contest that isn’t about whether or not your work can sell or about what your writing will mean to someone else. It’s about what it means to you.

To enter, we asked writers to tell us aboutrepparttar 128544 one thing they’ve always wanted to write and to tell us what it would mean to them to write it. Now, after only two weeks, we have an inbox full of emails from people. Entries so far have included grandparents wanting to write their life story for their grandchildren, aspiring novelists, professional writers looking forrepparttar 128545 chance to write something for themselves and not for money, and a young woman wanting to capture and preserve her mother’s family recipes.

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