Help for Authors (Write a Book Before You Die Blog)

Coach Yourself Through the Holidays, thanks to Ken Druck, Ph.D.

Your holiday season does not have to be full of anxiety, alcohol, overeating, and other stress.

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Before You Indulge, Consider Nearly 150 Ways Sugar Ruins Your Health

As 2011 winds down and we approach the holidays, we're about to enter what I call the Season of Overeating and the Season of Sugar Gorging.

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Institute for Integrative Nutrition: Should You Go?

This month, as usual, more people have sought me out to quiz me about the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, where I went to school.

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Sugar Shock Readers: What Would You Like in My Next Book?

Attention, readers of my first book, Sugar Shock.

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Connie's Super Cacao-Chia-Moringa Shake to Begin the Day

Lately, Facebook friends and other fans have been intrigued when I said I start my day with a Super Cacao-Chia-Moringa Shake.

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Delay Away Your Sugar Cravings (Creatively Procrastinate)

Here's an article I wrote to help you those of you, who are sugar addicts or junk food junkies, who need help to sweetly say, "No, thank you!" when offered those tempting, unhealthy "treats."

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Sugar Addiction: 7 Fast-Track Secrets to Break Free

Do you have a tough time saying no to your sugar addiction?

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Cell Phones & Microwaves: Ann Louise Gittleman Tells You How to Protect Yourself

Cell phones? TVs? Microwave ovens? How can we protect ourselves when we're constantly exposed to them?

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10 Quick Tips to Get Started Writing Your Book by Lisa Tener

Today, I'm pleased to present this guest post from book writing coach Lisa Tener, who appeared on my Sweeter Holiday Summit, which features 35+ experts, whose goal is to help you have your best holiday and best new year yet.

10 Quick Tips to Get Started Writing Your Book
by Lisa Tener

Writing a book can open all kinds of doors—from reaching more people with your message, to growing your business, to meeting like-minded inspirational colleagues, to the satisfaction of fulfilling a lifelong dream.  Yet, if you’re like most people, you’ve put it off—or started and stopped—for years.

People put off writing their books for a number of reasons:

• Can’t find the time
• Not sure what to write
• Afraid of success or failure
• Not sure where to start
• Don’t have the support to see it through to the end
• Not a good enough writer

Here are 10 Quick Tips to Get Started that address each of the challenges above.

1.    Write Down Your Vision and Goals for the Book: When you’re clear on why you’re writing the book, it will be easier to make the time, commit the resources and write the book that will fulfill your goals. If you have several book ideas, this step can help you choose the one that best fits your goals. Your clarity will propel you forward.

2.    Envision Your Readers: When you get a clear picture of who your core audience is—and why they’ll be motivated to buy your book—it will be much easier to write the book—and your book is much more likely to succeed in this competitive marketplace.

3.     Decide What You’ll Give Up: You’ll need to find time in your busy life for this book—whether it’s 3 hours a week or 10 or 15, you need time for the actual writing. Is there something you can do less of—TV, web surfing, a volunteer project you can temporarily put aside?

4.    Prioritize: Put book writing time before e-mails. Make e-mail time your reward after the writing is done. Unplug your phone and turn off e-mail alerts while writing.

5.    Schedule:  Write down exact times for book writing. If you say you’ll write Saturday mornings, that’s not clear enough. You need a start time and ending time. (of course, if you get carried away you can always extend that ending time!)

6.    Get Professional Support: Most people don’t have the experience to write a book. Join a book writing class, find a skilled editor or book writing coach, but get the professional support you need to help you clarify the book’s concept, tone, features and how you organize it, as well as help you make the writing compelling and polished.

7.    Tell Yourself a New Story: If you think you can’t write a book, tell yourself that you’re learning, and that—with help—you can. A good, supportive friend or a writing coach can often help you break through this potential block. Just because you’ve never done something doesn’t mean you can’t do it. Tens of thousands of new authors break through that block every year and you can, too.

8.    Get Organized: One of the biggest challenges to writing a book is figuring where to start and how to organize the book. I have my book writing students use color coded index cards with content, exercises and questions on them. As they move them around they can come up with several ideas for organizing a how-to book. For a memoir, start with the most dramatic moment in your story and then look back from there to let the story unfold.

9.    Enjoy the Process: The more fun you have, the more fun your readers will have—and the more often they’ll recommend your book to their friends and colleagues.

10.    Start with the End in Mind: Picture a day in your life as a published author. How does your day begin and end? Use your senses to make it real. The more you envision your success, the more you pave the way for it.

National book writing coach Lisa Tener helps authors write their nonfiction/how-to books and get published. She specializes in helping people shape their expertise and ideas into a book that authentically conveys their special gifts to a targeted audience.  Lisa has appeared on ABC World News with Peter Jennings and PBS-TV.  Her clients have been featured on Oprah, CBS Early Show, Good Morning America and more.  Lisa serves on the faculty of the Harvard Medical School CME publishing course. Lisa works with private clients and also teaches an 8 week book writing course by teleseminar and in person by the Ocean in Narragansett, RI. Have a question about book writing? Click here to sign up for Lisa's free 7-day e-course or click here and then scroll down if you'd like to purchase her 8 week book writing e-course (e-kit) .

 Listen now to the program with Lisa Tener as part of the Sweeter Holiday Summit.

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