Originally posted August 14, 2015
2022 Update: i'm starting a new blog and this was one of the posts i'm moving over... kinda makes me sad BUT i've had a LOT of activities since then. this is still on my list and maybe as i enter my 60th year on earth i will make the time to DO IT!
wow. it's really been a year and a half since i posted something?
wow. that's sobering.
but i've never been good at this either...
in some ways it seems like 10 years.
if i try to remember everything...
but i'm not.
no time for that!
living in the present... moving on :-)
soooo.... along with a dozen really really important things on my life "to-do" list is to write a book. yes i said book. B-O-O-K.
don't ask me why. you know when you just know something. something you don't really want to do but you know it's important and somehow something you need to do? like ride a bike or learn to type - aka keyboard. geez.
and as God would have it, last week (finally) i went to a writer's workshop. i have wanted to for a long time but never did. so like going to the dentist... it's just got harder the longer i put it off... but it was good. i was overwhelmed and inspired all at the same time.
here's what i learned...
How to become an AUTHOR in 3 easy steps...
Step 1. Announce it - make yourself accountable
I'M WRITING A BOOK!
ok done.
girl's got to start somewhere...
Step 2. Start marketing NOW
social media, build community, website, exposure, events, reviews, blog tours,
blah, blah, blah...
i might skip this part. just you and me :-)
Step 3. Plan it - keep it simple
less than 100 pages (big fonts!).
start with 7-10 chapter titles/topics (whew)
create sub-titles - create a statement - google quotes (i'm good at that)
write every day
decide on your title
fund it (this is where YOU will REALLY come in ;-)
publish it
share it
ta da! you too can be an author!
i use to be SO good at planning. like REALLY good.
then something happened. hormones? teenagers? ADD?
whatever it was "plan" is now a 4-letter word for torture.
BUT nothing ventured, nothing gained.
this will be fun. no really. i can do this.
One. Word. At. A. Time. :-)
pray with me and for me and for my family and for the words God has inside of me that he wants to get out vs the words I want to get out...
xoxo!
Shereet's really been a year and a half since i posted something?
wow. that's sobering.
but i've never been good at this either...
in some ways it seems like 10 years.
if i try to remember everything...
but i'm not.
no time for that!
living in the present... moving on :-)
soooo.... along with a dozen really really important things on my life "to-do" list is to write a book. yes i said book. B-O-O-K.
don't ask me why. you know when you just know something. something you don't really want to do but you know it's important and somehow something you need to do? like ride a bike or learn to type - aka keyboard. geez.
and as God would have it, last week (finally) i went to a writer's workshop. i have wanted to for a long time but never did. so like going to the dentist... it's just got harder the longer i put it off... but it was good. i was overwhelmed and inspired all at the same time.
here's what i learned...
How to become an AUTHOR in 3 easy steps...
Step 1. Announce it - make yourself accountable
I'M WRITING A BOOK!
ok done.
girl's got to start somewhere...
Step 2. Start marketing NOW
social media, build community, website, exposure, events, reviews, blog tours,
blah, blah, blah...
i might skip this part. just you and me :-)
Step 3. Plan it - keep it simple
less than 100 pages (big fonts!).
start with 7-10 chapter titles/topics (whew)
create sub-titles - create a statement - google quotes (i'm good at that)
write every day
decide on your title
fund it (this is where YOU will REALLY come in ;-)
publish it
share it
ta da! you too can be an author!
i use to be SO good at planning. like REALLY good.
then something happened. hormones? teenagers? ADD?
whatever it was "plan" is now a 4-letter word for torture.
BUT nothing ventured, nothing gained.
this will be fun. no really. i can do this.
One. Word. At. A. Time. :-)
pray with me and for me and for my family and for the words God has inside of me that he wants to get out vs the words I want to get out...
xoxo!
Sheree