Don't Delay Writing Your Book
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Too many of us think that we have a great written work within us, that one day we will sit down and scribe. But that day never comes. Don't be one of those people. Become a writer today! Self-published author Aenghus Chisholme spells-out in clear steps, how to achieve your goal of writing that story that you've been thinking about for so long. There are learnings to be discovered from the journey that another has taken. Like a guide in a foreign land, Aenghus will lead you to the very heart of how to produce your first book.
Aenghus Chisholme
Born New South Wales - Australia. Self-published since 2011. Innovative writer stretching his writing skills by traversing genres from sword-and-sorcery fantasy to murder mystery.
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Don't Delay Writing Your Book - Aenghus Chisholme
Introduction
Thinking of writing a book but procrastinating? Well; by not writing it you are withholding your contribution to the bibliotheca of human literature. Seriously! You are depriving people out there in reader-land
of a story that may inspire or touch them in a way that you had not planned and could not foresee.
So, really; you’re just being selfish. It is time to shake off the shackles of procrastination that you have put on yourself and get to work. This book is all about how I have managed to hold down a full-time job. A gym regime. A social life and still I have produced eight books to date. This is my ninth. And I intend to go on and write a tenth, eleventh, twelfth and so on.
Whether or not you just want to tell one story, or you want to transform yourself from someday I’ll do it
to accomplished author with multiple books attributable to you; this book is for you!
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I get scared before I write. It has happened before I have started every one of my books. I don’t have any justifiable reason to base this fear upon. I can look at my bookshelf and see the past works that I have produced. I have had enough feedback from the readers to assure me that they are all enjoyable stories. However, that does not stop the encroaching fear of what if………..
from trying to scuttle my endeavours.
Fear is a natural self-defence mechanism designed by mother nature to prevent you from doing anything to yourself that may be harmful. But in this case, it is not a protection mechanism at all. It is a sabotaging of your own right to put into words that story that you have been thinking about for so long.
But what if it is no good?
You can ask yourself a hundred questions that will erode your self-esteem and pick away at your confidence if you want. Go ahead do it now? Ask yourself every single question that best exemplifies your fears. They will probably include:
I don’t even know if I can write a book
I don’t want anyone to read it and tell me that it is no good
I’m not a proper author
Who would want to read anything that I write anyway
They are all subterfuge. Any one of them would be enough to put you off from writing. The group of them may send you scurrying away seeking safety. The safety of not writing.
The best exercise that I can give you to get over this hurdle is to have a book handy. A story that you have really enjoyed, by an author that you admire. Open the book to any random page and read one page only.
What you will see are simple sentence structures. Sentences making up paragraphs of ideas and themes. And by the end of the page nothing has changed. You are still seeing sentences and paragraphs. Not that remarkable really.
That author that you so admire, has written in simple prose, a story that is the sum of many very ordinary parts. And those ordinary parts can be done, over and over again, until they come together to form a cohesive book.
If that author that you like so much can do it. Guess what? You can do it too.
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We all suffer from not having enough time to get done everything that we want to do. But it is up to you to prioritise this task up to the level that it deserves. Putting it off until you have more time is just doing you harm. If you don’t do this now, you will always wonder if you could have achieved it. If you can follow the very simple steps that I have done in order to get myself to write, not once, but multiple times; you will succeed. They are in the following chapters. I will give you the steps leading up to and actually writing your book. Then there are the necessary steps that you must take in order to get it finished and then published.
We live in a wonderful world. Thanks to the advent of print-on-demand books and eBooks, anyone can self-publish their work. You can get it done and hold your book in your hands. Believe me, the sense of accomplishment and pride that you will have in your completed work is very intoxicating. It greatly eclipses any self-doubt or fear that I have had when it comes to writing. And looking at my current body of work, I am confident that I will continue to write books for the rest of my life.
Chapter 1
Step 1- Sacrifice
If time to write has been a problem up to now, then it is time to take away that blocker. We are all busy with our lives. Work-life; home-life, there don’t seem to be enough hours in the day to get done what we would like to do. And that includes down-time.