Wherever you are on your book writing adventure, you’ll find what you need here…
What to do if you’re just starting out on your Author Adventure: planning, preparation, and dealing with your Inner Dickhead
Since I was a small goblin child, I’ve been obsessed with the acknowledgements in books.
They’re a little piece of the story of how the book was created and the minds behind it and gratitude is always a delight to see anyway, right?
And, if I’m being totally honest, part of me was hoping to see my name there, too.
I am surrounded by the decaying corpses of hobbies I have gotten excited about, started, and then abandoned.
My hard drive is littered with the bones of books I began to write, but did not finish.
This is how my AuDHD brain works.
That doesn’t mean I don’t also create AND FINISH wonderful projects…
If you have ever looked closely at a fully alive and enthusiastic chicken, you’ll know they evolved from dinosaurs.
When Jurassic Park came out, I was like WELL OF COURSE BIRDS EVOLVED FROM DINOSAURS LOOK AT THEM. I did not understand why this was such a controversial idea.
Anyway, I am kept by chickens and they are 100% little dinosaurs. Velociraptors.
In every round of MicroBook Magic my clients knock my dinosaur-print socks off but every now and then someone just boggles me.
Like Laura, who is a marketing professor at Warwick Uni, and runs Think Talk Thrive, a professional development and career strategy agency AND has small children.
I used to ride a motorbike — an R6, then a succession of Triumphs.
And yes, I chose an extremely unsuitable bike for my first bike. But it was fun.
It’s hazardous, riding a bike on the road cos of, you know, other people.
One thing I’d often hear repeated by crusty old-timers to n00bs like me was:
If you’re writing a book but you’re stuck in a rut, lemme ask you this: what have you tried so far?
Maybe you’ve taken a course. Read a book. Bought a blueprint. Paid for one of those “write your bestseller in a weekend” bros… and been burned.
So, when you see my MicroBook Magic program, you’re a little… sceptical.
When he came to me for book coaching, I was really excited — he was full of energy and had a message and a GREAT story.
I lined up all my pens and pencils and rulers and rules about “how a book should be written” and “what a book coach should do” and we got started and it did NOT go well.
I didn’t know, until after we’d finished MicroBook Magic Season 2, that Sharon wasn’t just struggling with her own doubts.
When she was in college, double majoring in English and Pysch, an English professor told her she “can’t write, and never will.”
Caution: you may experience these side effects when you write your book: an increased sense of self, realising the true value you have to offer, a new way of looking at the world, seeing your true skills, knowledge, and talent.
But you also get A BOOK.
There's a bunch of things you don't need to write a book like a degree in English Lit or a neurotypical brain. Here's what you do need to write a book...What do you think? Sounds doable?
It’s my birthday today and here are 46 things I’ve learned. One for each year I’ve been alive. And here’s my gift to you…If you've been thinking about signing up for MicroBook Magic Season 7 —I’m offering a FREE 60-minute private coaching call to get you fully ready to go when the program kicks off.
The longer you leave it, the harder it gets. And the more pointless it seems…And the more you should have started last week, last month, last year — so you may as well not start at all. It’s too late now, after all. What is even the point of it allllllll?
