Yesterday, I received an e-mail from a writer saying, I have been reading and rereading The Writer’s Workout, and I have never come up with such a full legal pad of scribbled down ideas EVER.
When I was working on The Writer’s Workout, I anticipated that we would be living in increasingly noisy and complicated times. So I went ahead and cut through the baloney in advance. This is what I have learned how to do to get my work done and that is what you need to do to get your work done, too.
If you want to be successful as a creative person, productivity is not enough. The most important thing you have to do is learn how to focus your time and energy and follow through on projects that are meaningful to you and others from start to finish.
And thanks to information overload by the bandwith, getting and staying focused has never been more challenging. Here are the top twenty-three premises in The Writer’s Workout and how can they help you get more done regardless of where you are in your journey to writing career success:
1. Keep the big picture in mind but not so much that you get sucked out of your own creative process
2. Be mature enough to handle the truth of where you are compared to others historically and today
3. Assess your own progress and growth regularly–lean into strengths, address weaknesses
4. Learn how to trust and voice and champion a steady flow of your own ideas
5. Always stay humble even when you are tested (your ego will be tested constantly)
6. Learn as you go and understand that there will always be more to learn
7. Plan to earn money from the outset and then open your bank account do it right from the start
8. Figure out what you are good at because this will become your specialty (what you become known for)
9. Pay attention to your special knack for doing things because this will become your platform dynamic (the most important thing every writer needs to know)
10. Keep your portfolios updated (one for the world and one for you)
11. Build your platform and let it evolve naturally as the home base for your name and business
12. Build your online platform and use the social media platforms that work for you while also building a local, regional, and national relationship with the media
13. Align your business with your greatest pleasures so you can enjoy each day
14. Consistently sell yourself and your work because that’s part of the job
15. Plan on being both serially traditionally and serially self published because that’s the future of authorhood
16. As your confidence, usefulness and communications skills grow, put yourself out there in more daring yet appropriate ways
17. Never rest on your laurels–if you are not growing, your career is languishing
18. Make the most of your past work while working on your next project–trust your gut to guide your choices
19. Always think beyond the book and consider the many possibilities for your words and ideas
20. Create an array of multiple income streams that all flow together to support your creative growth and writing time
21. Once you succeed in fashioning a hand-crafted career, be grateful, be gracious, be humble
22. But remember that you have to decide yes, no and maybe every single day in a hundred ways
23. Once you put yourself through the paces for a few years, you will get good at all of this
The Writer’s Workout can help you focus and channel your productivity the way successful writers have been doing for centuries. You can be a twenty-first century writer and still live in the moment, have a life, and walk away from your screens whenever you want.
The Writer’s Workout will show you how. Thanks for ordering!
