Writing Your First Book

h1>Five Myths to Overcome when Writing Your First Book

Many people live exciting lives, have great vision or imagination and are compelled to seek the long road of writing a book. Writing your first book is an especially daunting task. Where to start? How do you proceed? What if writer’s block hits? And will I ever find a publisher? These are just a few of the myriad of questions that keep would-be authors away from the keyboard and awake at night as they wrestle with conquering the page.

This brief article is the first in a series which provide guidance for new authors. In addition, perhaps it can also provide inspiration to experienced authors. With this first installment I will begin from the rejection pile as it were: Things Not To Do.

My reasoning is simple, if we can help you eliminate some lethal, bad habits, maybe we can free your fingers so they can dance joyfully over the keyboard once again. Are you game?

Myth 1: Writing a book is like giving birth- one word at a time.

Please let go, live free, and anticipate that this will be the first of several, if not many books. Do not agonize over each word. Let yourself experience the process of writing, revising, writing, and revising. Because after months of careful planning and work you must realize that at a certain point you have to kick that book out of the nest and let it fly.

Myth 2: Writing a book is ugly business.

Enjoy the writing and when you get stuck, no longer are enjoying it, or are otherwise bogged down, change your scene, write a different section, go outside, or sing a song. You have hopefully elected this process of writing, therefore enjoy it. It could be so much worse, imagine if you were digging trenches with your bare hands. This is easy in comparison. Enjoy! Change the …………………….

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Upcoming Speaking Engagements for 2010

Dr. Kathy King will be presenting and keynoting at the following conferences.

I look forward to connecting in person with readers or colleagues who want to visit, or have books signed. Please contact Dr. King in advance at kpking (@) TransformationEd.com to make specific arrangements! For more details about booking Dr Kathleen P. King for your next event visit http://transformationed.com/speaker/

UPCOMING APPEARANCES IN 2010

January 2010

1/10-1/11/10 Albany, NY NYSCOSS – confirmed
1/12-1/15/10 Orlando, Fl, FETC — confirmed

March 2010

3/ 4 – 6 /10 Providence, RI WeLEARN Conference and Preconference-confirmed

April 2010

4/5-4/6/10 (Minneapolis, MN) NCEA ( 2 sessions) -confirmed
4/6-4/7/10 (Indianapolis, IN) Purdue Univ KEYNOTE & breakout sessions -confirmed
4/15-16/2010 Chicago, IL National conference- confirmed

May 2010

5/1/10 NYC, NYCABE – confirmed
5/3-5/5/10 Denver, CO, AERA -confirmed
5/17-5/18/10 Orlando, FL, National conference -confirmed

June 2010

6/2-6/5/10 Sacramento, CA AERC and Preconference-King & Kerekes -confirmed

October 2010

10/10 China – Innovation and Higher Education Conference
10/25-10/29/10 Clearwater, FL, AAACE/CPAE Conference- confirmed

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Academic Author Publication Grants

Dr. King Awarded $750 TAA Publication Grant

Dr. Kathleen P. King, a professor of education at Fordham University’s Graduate School of Education in New York City, has been awarded a $750 TAA Publication Grant for expenses incurred in researching her co-edited book, The Professor’s Guide to Taming Technology: Leveraging Digital Media, Web 2.0 and More for Learning, which will be published by Information Age Publishing, Inc. in July 2010.

“This grant is not only a surprise and tremendous monetary help, it is extremely validating as well,” said King. “I am very grateful on each account. In the past, some of my books have been based on funded research or were less intensive in the editing process. However, this book has turned into a large project because we have a unique, very valuable contribution to the literature as our goal. From all of the TAA members, thank you for your forward thinking in providing a potential source of funding for us to pursue special projects that we might not be able to otherwise.”

The entire grant will be used to defray a good part of the costs King personally incurred in the book’s development, including research assistant searches, transcripts and copy editing assistance.

How You Can Apply for a TAA Publication Grant: Download a PDF form and mail to: TAA Executive Director Richard Hull, 3241 Heather Hill Lane, Tallahassee, FL 32309-2307. The deadline for applications is May 1, 2010. (You must be a member of TAA; however, according to Dr. King it is well worth the low cost and great benefits)

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