Writing Your First Book
December 21, 2009 by admin2
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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 …………………….
