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    Just Write It: Write More, Sell More, Starting Today
    Just Write It: Write More, Sell More, Starting Today
    Just Write It: Write More, Sell More, Starting Today
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    Just Write It: Write More, Sell More, Starting Today

    By Angela Booth

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    Do you dream of being a professional writer? This book will help. Perhaps you already have a writing career, but feel that you're not living up to your potential, this book will help you, too.

    In four lessons, you'll discover how to develop ideas, create drafts of your writing, and write faster and well. You'll find templates for articles, as well as for book structure. You'll develop goals for your writing. 

    In addition, you'll find lots of ways to combine writing with your busy life, by becoming more creative.

    Each lesson ends with several exercises,so you can put the ideas in a lesson to work immediately. You should find that you're more comfortable with your writing, and have more fun with it, and will write more from the first lesson.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAngela Booth
    Release dateMay 23, 2016
    ISBN9781524202705
    Just Write It: Write More, Sell More, Starting Today

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    Just Write It - Angela Booth

    Introduction: Write it, right now

    Welcome , fellow writer.

    I hope that this little book will help you to transform your writing career. You won't find anything earth-shaking here. However, I hope that you will discover yourself, and will become able to trust yourself… You will write with confidence, so that your words flow onto the computer screen.

    Once you trust yourself, you'll easily write more, and will sell more.

    Most of the challenges writers face with their writing are because they have no processes which work, so they don't trust themselves.

    These writers write slowly. They sit and stare at the computer screen, and worry.

    Writers write: use the two parts of your brain, and keep writing

    I work with writers every day. Few write as much as they could, and should. Those writers who do manage to increase their output get results.

    You have a creative side, and a logical side. You need both sides of your brain to operate smoothly together, so that you write easily and well.

    Here's my best advice, in a nutshell: whenever you get an impulse to write something, write it. Trust your spontaneous impulses. They will always help you. Refuse to listen to your negative mind-chatter, which will arrive sooner, rather than later. If you write what you want to write, you won't miss opportunities.

    Here's why you should trust yourself, and just write what your intuition tells you to write.

    Reason 1. you don't know what you don't know

    You can't take a step forward in your writing career without facing the unknown. Don't let the thought I don't know how faze you. If you get the impulse to write something, you will always learn what you need to know to write it in the process of writing, there is no other way you CAN learn.

    Whenever I'm given a new opportunity, if I feel that it would help my career, I grab it with both hands, because I've learned that I don't need to see where the path leads. I just need to see the path. Trust the impulse. Go forward - write it anyway.

    Reason 2. you can't see around corners

    When you get an impulse to write something which is scary, and you write it anyway, even if the result is woeful, the writing will lead you to an opportunity which you could have reached in no other way.

    The birth of my copywriting career is a great example of this. When I began writing copy, it was out of necessity. At the time, I was managing a business, and writing novels. I was spending huge amounts of money advertising the business. It was a chunk out of the budget that the business couldn't afford. I decided that there had to be another way to make people aware of us, so I started to send out news releases - even though I knew nothing about writing news releases.

    As I continued to write news releases, I got offers of copywriting work, and this opened a whole new business writing career to me. If I hadn't followed the original impulse to write news releases, copywriting would have remained a mystery. Not only would I have missed out on a lot of fun, I would have missed out on a lot of money, as well.

    Reason 3. every rejection is a new opportunity

    Rejections are EXCELLENT. Think I'm crazy, right? Not so. Every major sale that I've made as a writer I gained via a rejection. My first novel sale came about via a rejection - an editor at one publishing house declined my book proposal, but recommended that I send it to an editor at another publishing house who purchased not one book, but several from me.

    I've made dozens of article sales via rejections. The process works like this. Rejection/ rejection/ rejection... followed by the offer of a contract to write an article. Those rejections let editors see my name, and

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