Getting Started with Writng

Click here for the most recent recording of Successful Author Secrets - Getting Your Book out of Your Head and onto the Page.

Some people have an idea for a book for months or years before they finally start writing it and get it done.

If you have a perfectionist streak, this can undermine your efforts and plans to finish your book. This is something I talk about in Write Your Book in Two Days. This book contains lots of strategies for getting started, overcoming procrastination and tapping into your creative energy.

To listen to an audio interview about this, see Tapping into the Natural Flow of Your Creativity.

These Successful Author Secrets are being broadcast every day in August. Each one is free for 24 hours - scroll down the page to hear the next day's broadcast.

Happy writing!

Successful Author Secrets - Creating Your Inner Author Platform

Judith and Jim - Judith Sherven and Jim Sniechowski, authors of The Heart of Marketing - emphasise that just because you have a book, that doesn't mean you will be successful.

We all know, don't we, that as an author, you need to have a platform? That is, an audience who will buy your next book. In this interview, Judith and Jim talk about building your inner platform.

Writing a book is a process of personal development and self-discovery. I talk about this a lot in my book, Write Your Book in Two Days.

When you are clear about what changes you want people to be able to make in their lives, and how your book will help them make these changes, you will know how to market your book.

Click here to listen to this fascinating interview.

See also:

Successful Author Secrets: When Dreaming of Your Book, Dream Big

Successful Author Secrets: Interview with Kathleen Gage.

Successful Author Secrets - When Dreaming of Your Book, Dream Big

I've just been listening to this interview with Michael Gerber, author of The Most Successful Small Business in the World: The Ten Principles and 13 other books including The E-Myth.

Michael has sold more than five million books worldwide. The key success tip he offers is to let go of your expectations.

You have to transcend your expectations and get down to the heart of what is really going on.

You need to be a dreamer. What are you bringing to the world? And you need to allow your dream to unfold. Don't think you have all the answers. Don't think you need to have it all worked out.

I talk about this more in the section on "How to Make a Quantum Leap" in The Higher Self. Click here to read it.

He wanted to know: Why do 90% of all small businesses fail?

He learned as he went along, and went on to found the first-ever business coaching company.

Michael Gerber did not become a successful author by wanting to be an author. He did it by wanting to solve the problem of small business failure, and transform small businesses all over the world.

He is saying that you have to be willing to stretch yourself, open yourself, write what is in your heart, and never settle for anything less.

Want to know how to have a big impact on the world as an author? Click here to listen.

Successful Author Secrets - Becoming a Thought Leader

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Andrea J. Lee, author of Multiple Streams of Coaching Income, suggests you stop thinking about yourself as "just" an author, and think of yourself as a "thought leader".

I'm not sure what a "thought leader" is.

She emphasises the importance of having something new and fresh to share, so that you are not creating "info crap".

Well, we've all seen "info crap", haven't we? We've had our mailboxes stuffed with stuff we really do not want.

She says to see what's out there already, then create something different.

But I think that if you are authentic, if you are true to yourself, you will always create products that are unique. You have a unique message to share, so honour that.

Click here to listen to the interview with Andrea J. Lee.

Click here for the 3-Step Success Formula.

Successful Author Secrets: Interview with Kathleen Gage

I have just been listening to this brilliant audio: Successful Author Secrets

Kathleen Gage was the Top Home-Based Business Owner for the State of Utah 2004 and has received many business awards. She helps business owners to build internet marketing systems to promote their businesses.

Her book The Law of Achievement became an Amazon bestseller.

The interview with Kathleen Gage covers subjects such as:

• How can you build a successful business based on your book, to help you reach more people?

• How can you help your readers in the most effective ways?

• How can you create information products for multiple streams of income?

• How can you recession-proof your business?

As Kathleen says, you write one book, the next one is easier and the next one after that is easier still. This is what I have always taught my students: your future success will involve building on what you have achieved in the past - and everyone has past achievements.

One thing Kathleen mentions is that many people have a problem with getting started, and overcoming procrastination. To listen to an audio interview with me about how to overcome procrastination as a writer, go to: Tapping into the Natural Flow of Your Creativity.

Do You Feel Shy about Your Writing?

Do you ever feel shy about sharing your writing with others? Do your feelings of accomplishment give way to insecurity?

Check out this publishing blog from PPD, a Canadian company.

I wonder whether this is why many writers find it difficult to promote their work, or even to finish it.

You can overcome and transform these feelings. For more about this, see Tapping into the Natural Flow of Your Creativity.

Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT, also known as meridian tapping, can help you to feel confident and self-assured. For more about this, see Achieving Fabulous Success.

Tapping into the Natural Flow of Your Creativity

I am delighted to have been interviewed on Paula B’s The Writing Show about my new ebook, Write Your Book in Two Days. The focus of the show is on how to overcome procrastination.

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Write Your Book in Two Days combines my two major areas of interest and expertise: writing and personal development/self-help.

There is so much we can achieve if we tap into the natural flow of our creativity, and trust that creative flow. If we stop blocking ourselves and stop blaming ourselves. If we get out of our own way.

Having produced several books and ebooks, and a constant, steady stream of blogs and articles over the past several years, writing this book was my natural next step.

Everyone procrastinates about something. We writers have elevated procrastination to the level of a high art.

In this interview, I talk about the causes of procrastination, and what we can do about it. I also touch on writer’s block, which often stems from similar causes.

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Once you have eliminated a substantial number of your blocks and obstacles, you will be in the flow state. This book is designed to get you there.

Click here to download Write Your Book in Two Days.

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