IDENTIFYING WHAT'S HOLDING YOU BACK
When you look back on your year, what was the biggest obstacle to finishing your book? Most folks think it’s lack of skills.
You may be surprised that the most common obstacle that stops aspiring writers is a lack of time. Skills you can improve through courses, workshops, or a lot of practice, practice, practice. But if you have a family, a job, social obligations, if you keep putting that story or article aside, if you constantly find that you’re putting the day job, housework, yard work, volunteering, cooking, or cleaning ahead of your writing, you’re simply not going to get anywhere. You have to generate words…lots of words…in order to succeed in this business.
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AN INTERVIEW WITH ANN SHEYBANI
This is Ann.
“I began my practice as a book-writing coach, not just because I like bossing people around, which I do, but also because I know all of your sorry excuses for not settling down to write your book, because I invented them. In other words, I’ve got your number, cupcake. I may look nice, but don’t let that fool you. You need to prepare yourself for an ass kicking. It’s time to blindfold your sorry excuses for not writing your book, hand them a lit cigarette, then shoot them.”
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