Write it Now. Book 2 - Motivation, Commitment, and Planning: Write Your Novel or Memoir. A Series Guide For Beginners, #2

By Robbie McCauley

This is Book 2 in this series, because of the importance of your motivation, your commitment and your planning to the outcome of your attempt to write.

Thinking about what you want to do and planning how you will do it is vital to your success.  A plan and an outline of your book as well as a summary of the proposed chapters before you start the first draft will most certainly help you. These are the tools of trade for the beginner.. They will keep you going.

But you still need to be committed to your plan. This book will help you to keep your motivation high. It will take away the fear and doubt.

I hope that everyone will find sparks of interest within these pages that will encourage motivation to not only begin to write, but to continue. If you are well motivated and have the required self-belief, I am sure you will become well aware of the need for making a personal commitment to your dream, as well as the obvious need to plan your time to work on it.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Robbie McCauley
• Release date: Jun 4, 2017
• ISBN: 9781386369868

Robbie McCauley

When Robbie McCauley retired early from a varied working life, which included the duties of Secretary to Members of Parliament, Researcher, Primary School Teacher, and Bank Manager, she began to take writing classes and discovered the joy of writing short stories. At the same time Robbie decided to study for the Bachelor of Arts degree she had always wanted.  This was the start of a new world. She now has many degrees including a Masters in Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism and a Post Graduate Diploma in Writing. Her qualifications provide an excellent background for story writing. At present Robbie teaches a writing class called "Let's Write a Book" with the University of the Third Age (U3A) and is happy to have finally completed her first series of novels. The Maddison Family Series contains four books. It is a family saga of suspense, crime, and romance. Book 1 - The Eleventh Hour Book 2 - The Greatest Thing Book 3 - Where There’s A Will Book 4 - Born Lucky Robbie lives in Australia, on Queensland's Sunshine Coast. She is divorced, has one lovely daughter, and three exciting grand children.

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CONTENTS

Chapter 1 - Motivation

Chapter 2 - Writers Write in different ways

Chapter 3 - Creativity

Chapter 4 - Commitment, Time, and Planning

Chapter 5 - Getting Started

Chapter 6 - Summary And Good Luck

Links to sources and some resources used in this book

Other Books in this Series

Other Books by the Author

The Author’s Writing Website

About the Author

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ABOUT THIS BOOK

This is Book 2 in this series, because of the importance of your motivation, your commitment and your planning to the outcome of your attempt to write.

As was said in Book 1 of the series, thinking about what you want to do and planning how you will do it is vital to your success.  Even the most successful of authors cannot simply sit down and write ‘Chapter 1’ and go on to write a book successfully. A plan and an outline of your book as well as a summary of the proposed chapters before you start the first draft will most certainly help you.

However, motivation, commitment, and planning as you continue are also greatly important. This book hopes to give you guides to each of those aspects. Just as writers write in different ways (and you must endeavour to find your own best way), so different things will spark interest in different readers of this book.

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Most of the inspirational information contained here comes from sources I have found when researching for the class I teach called Let’s Write a Book. These thoughts have helped the class members and I am happy to now be able to pass them on to other prospective book writers.

I hope that everyone will find sparks of interest within these pages that will encourage motivation to not only begin to write, but to continue. If you are well motivated and have the required self-belief, I am sure you will become well aware of the need for making a personal commitment to your dream, as well as the obvious need to plan your time to work on it.

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CHAPTER 1 – MOTIVATION

Definition of risk

1. A situation involving exposure to danger

2. The possibility that