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Writing Misconceptions
by Beth Barany
People get excited when they find out what I do. "A book coach," they exclaim, "I've always wanted to write a book!" In an instant, their secret dreams of having a book published rises to the surface, their dream becoming a reality.
I'm not one to usually burst people's bubbles. I'm all for dreaming and dreaming BIG. And if there's one thing I've learned about going from a dream of writing novels to the reality of it is that making dreams real is hard work. Sweating, hair-pulling, scream-inducing hard, fun-hard work.
Thus,
Well, um, not for most people. It takes much application of effort to complete a manuscript, article, e-book, or report. What does "application of effort" mean? Daily or regular pen to paper or fingers to keyboard.
And sometimes on days where it's difficult to get started, check out these fast writing, flash writing tips.
Again, if that were the case many more people could and would do it. Even e-books, which cut out many of the gate keepers, still leave you facing the technological and logistical choices, decisions, and actions, and the time or money to get it published on the internet.
More information on the steps to take to write an e-book, check out my 1-hour audio recording and companion handout.
Easy? No. Possible? Yes, with you guessed it, hard work, luck, and the investment of time or money or both.
A key factor in improving your sales is to offer something many people want or need.
In the book publishing world, and with e-books, you need to let your readers know what you have to offer and invite them to sample your wares, in offering them a sample chapter, the table of contents, or sample section. In short, one of the many marketing techniques used to getting the word out about your book.
While writing, publishing and selling your book or e-book may not be easy or effortless, all three of these steps can be accomplished. Just know that you will need to put in time, effort, and often funds to realize your dream of putting your passion into print or the internet.
c. 2007 Beth Barany
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"When laughter helps without doing harm, when laughter lightens, realigns, reorders, reasserts power and strength, this is the laughter that causes health. When laughter makes people glad they are alive, happy to be here, more conscious of love, heightened with eros, when it lifts their sadness and severs them from anger, that is sacred."
-- Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D., Women Who Run With the Wolves
"...creative art education, or better said, Education-Through-Art, may be especially important not so much for turning out artists or art products, as for turning out better people." -- A. H. Maslow, The Farther Reaches of Human Nature
"So the next time you find yourself unable to begin, paralyzed by an inner voice that says, 'Who am I to write or compose or paint or dance?' you might try responding with 'Who am I not to create? Who am I to refuse to express the inherent creative inpulse of Life lived in and through this particular human form?'" -- Oriah Mountain Dreamer, What We Ache For
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