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Top 10
New Year’s Resolutions
for Writers
1.
Write more.
Find the time to invest in your writing. There is a myth of creativity thatyou need the perfect time and space to create perfect words. But you write aboutreal life, so find time in your real life to write.
“  
Write at the edges of the day 
”  
 
 –
ToniMorrison, author of
“
Beloved
”
 2.
Finish the project.
One finished book is worth more than 20 just started ones. Makean effort to finish the project this year, whether it is a book, an article, a story for thekids. Complete the project and then sit back and be proud of what you haveaccomplished.3.
Create an online presence as an author.
You have to have a presence on theinternet now so that people can find you and your work. You can have a static onepage website, or a daily blog, or an author page on Amazon, or a Squidoo lens. Thelist is endless, but you need something. Learn how you can do this and get it done.4.
Take a course and improve your writing.
Kaizen is continuous improvement andthis is as important in your writing as it is in the rest of your life. Learning the craftnever stops, so take time out to improve your writing skills. Take a course, read abook, or get a mentor.5.
Get out of your comfort zone and try a different form of writing.
Have you beencruising along in your genre for too long? If you are a fiction writer, try writing a
“
HowTo
”
article. If you write technical non-fiction, try poetry or dialogue. Do something thatscares you in a literary sense. You never know what you
’
ll find!6.
Use your book to create multiple streams of income.
A print book is not the wayto become a millionaire. Take the time this year to create other streams of incomefrom your book. Record it as an audio and sell it as mp3 files for the iPod. Create aPDF and sell it as an ebook online. Submit it to Kindle and sell as an ebook onOprah
’
s favourite ebook reader. Break it down into chunks and sell it as an eclass, oras a workbook. Create a spin off book and upsell people so they buy 2 products.Present it as a course and record it on video so you can sell it as a DVD.7.
Connect with other authors and find your community.
Web 2.0 is all about socialnetworking and there are multiple sites where you can find people to network with, aswell as market to. Try the biggest sites like Facebook and mySpace first, and thenbranch out into GoodReads, Authors Den, LibraryThing and Squidoo. There are alsolots of smaller networking sites at ning.com.8.
Learn about Publishing 2.0 new technologies and expand your education aboutwriting
. If you don
’
t read blogs about writing and you don
’
t use RSS, you need toeducate yourself. The internet is packed with information that can help you developyour skills and sell more books, but you need to stay up to speed. Learn how to use
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