The Meetup: Winning Habits of Successful Authors

By Bobby Everett Smith

Bobby Everett Smith takes a magical journey to the planet Urantia in an alternate Universe to participate in a weekly Meetup for a Writer’s Master Mind group. In addition to Bobby, the group contains four famous authors and an eBook publisher who review the habits they have developed which has led to their success. The habits are based on 13 principles which, if followed, can lead to your success as a best-selling author. In fact, you can achieve success with any ambition which you can conceive of and believe that you can achieve if you follow these principles. I don’t guarantee you will become a best-selling author by following these principles, but you will come a lot closer to than if you don’t. Go to http://www.smashwords.com and search for Bobby Everett Smith to purchase this book. You will be glad that you did.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bobby Everett Smith
• Release date: Nov 24, 2016
• ISBN: 9781370153923

Bobby Everett Smith

Bobby Everett Smith www.bobsmithsblog.comBobby Everett Smith is an American author of fiction and non-fiction essays, short stories and novels, and the publisher of the blog bobsmithsblog.com.Born and raised in Wichita Falls, Texas, Smith earned a degree in Economics from Rice University and an MBA from the University of Washington. Primarily during the Cold War, he served as an aviator in the U.S. Navy. His tours in East and Southeast Asia are inspiration for many of his works, taking the reader vicariously along for his adventurous rides, launched from aircraft carriers in the 7th Fleet.Fueled by his own leadership experiences in the U.S. Navy and the private sector, Smith has become passionate and knowledgeable about our nation’s leaders. In nearly a dozen summaries of great presidential biographies, he examines the lives, achievements and legacies of these important political figures.Smith’s most recent novel, Lida Murry Smith, was inspired by his own family history. Set in the backdrop of the women’s suffrage movement, it traces the arduous and courageous 1905 fictional journey of the Smith family from their farm in Missouri, through the Indian Territories and Oklahoma to a new farm in Texas.For access to these and other works of Bobby Everett Smith, visit:https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/744702

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The Meetup

Winning Habits of Best-Selling Authors

By Bobby Everett Smith

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Contents

Week 1 The Meetup—The Master Mind Group

Week 2-- Thoughts and Ideas—James Patterson

Week 3-- Desire—Stephen King

Week 4-- Confidence—Larry McMurtry

Week 5—The Habit of Autosuggestion—Patterson

Week 6—Developing the habit of improving your specialized knowledge—Coker

Week 7—Developing the habit of using your imagination—King

Week 8—The Plan—Patterson

Week 9—Decision, the Mastery of Procrastination—King

Week 10—Persistence—McMurtry

Week 11—Developing the Habit of Using the Subconscious Mind—Patterson

Week 12 The Brain—a broadcasting and receiving station for thought—McMurtry

Week 13—The Sixth Sense—Patterson

Week 14—Conclusion—Smith

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Week 1 The Meetup—The Master Mind Group

First meeting of the Master Mind Group. Location Board Room, Britain Street Consulting Headquarters, Alt-Universe, Alt-Earth, Alt-Wichita Falls, Texas.

Bobby Smith

I am writing my first novel and have founded the imaginary Meetup Master Mind group to advise me on the habits and characteristics that I should follow to become a best-selling Smash words self-publishing author.

Lately, I have been meditating several times a week.  I wake up about 3 a.m. to pee. After using the bathroom, I walk into the living room in my boxer shorts and black t-shirt, pull out a shawl-- wool, loosely crocheted and given to me many years ago, by my older sister, Mary. I spread the shawl around my legs and torso; it feels warm and comfortable even in the summer when we are running the a/c. I lean back in the recliner and close my eyes attempting to clear my mind of all thought.

I breathe. Deep breaths and hold it for a second or two. Exhale. Deeper. Take another breath in.

Meditation for religious purposes is not on my agenda. I don’t believe in God the way most of my relatives and friends do. They believe that God is like a man, an old man, who sits up in heaven which is on a cloud and God has a throne down at the end of the street where he sits all day long making decisions about what goes on for every being in the world, the universe, the multiverse. Jesus is by his side and he talks to all the new-comers to heaven.

I find that hard to believe. It doesn’t fit into what I consider a possibility. I do leave the door open, however, for something like Infinite Intelligence or a super power of some sort. My thinking now is that God, if anything, is a combination of the forces of nature, physics, chemistry, biology.

There is no doubt in my mind that this whole thing is more complicated than I can understand or imagine. I would welcome the opportunity to connect with Infinite Intelligence and that may be possible. More on that as we go through the principles of winning habits for successful writers.

"My goal in these nightly meditations is to find the words and the architecture of my first novel, Mo Highgate, such that it becomes a national best-seller at Smashwords.com, my independent publisher, the largest in the world for that type of publishing."

I am retired, 82, and still trying to find my place in the world. I don’t like being retired but after many unsuccessful attempts, I have given up trying to find another full or even part-time job in my career field of sales and marketing of computers, software, and services.

My career has been good. I made a decent living, like up to $200,000 per year at IBM and in the position of Principal of their consulting practice focused on Customer Relationship Management. Even though, that was a good job, I was never satisfied. Why can’t I be a Vice President? What do I have to do to get better at what I do? Most importantly what can I do to make my colleagues, friends and relatives think higher of me, respect me more?

Now, I must take care of myself and my wife, Harriet, for the rest of our lives. That could be this Friday or maybe another 10 years. The problem with retirement is you don’t know how long it will last and thus how much money you need in savings. We have enough to live on comfortably but not much discretionary income for travel, eating out, or giving money to our kids, grandkids, and great-grandkids,

I started writing eBooks about two years ago and I have now written and published 12 of them. They average about 50 pages in length and are sold through Smashwords or one of the distributors like Kindle, Apple, Sony, or Barnes and Noble.

My sales are sparse and the income for the past two years has been less than $100 per month. I want it to be more, but more than the money, I want fame, recognition, respect. That’s why I do the meditation and seek to make that ultimate connection with Infinite Intelligence. I want to be James Patterson, Stephen King, Larry McMurtry, or Bob Dylan (who recently won the Nobel Prize for Literature for 2016.)

Why do I care so much about what others think of me? Why is so important to be recognized, appreciated?

"In my living room recliner, I envision taking off at the local airport in my Navy A1E Skyraider, a single engine Navy attack plane like the dive bombers of World War II but a little