Throughout Season Two, I'm talking about all the obstacles that keep folks from working on their book project.

In today's episode, I'm covering how to get UNstuck after an initial, early burst of writing on an idea. This is something I see all the time with first time authors -- it's so normal!  

You're excited and passionate about your book idea all you want to do is get going! So you do. 

Until you peter out.... In this episode, we talk about how to get back on track by creating a Blueprint for Your Book. 

We talk about 5 key elements of a Blueprint, and how to create them for your book:

1. What’s the point of your book

2. What’s the title of your book

3. What is your table of contents 

4. Who is your reader

5. How will you market and promote this book

If you feel you could use some one-on-one help, we can work through the Blueprint for Your Book process together. It’s these five elements plus much, much more. You will come away with a complete plan for your book including your first chapters — and will be ready to develop your book proposal, or if your plan includes self-publishing, you will be ready to start writing your book!

In this episode, I'm digging into commitment and really deciding that you are going to prioritize your book project and how to do that.

We get into my 3 part framework to help you commit in real life.

Real-Life Friendly Framework for Committing to Your Book

• Part 1: Committing to your book isn’t something you do just one day — it’s something you will need to return to again and again.
• Part 2: Commitment to something new means something else probably needs to go.
• Part 3: Commitment in a vacuum is a recipe for disaster — you will need a support plan.

Mentioned on the show:

• Adam's Grant's tweet

This is the second episode in my series on common obstacles that keep you from working on your book project.

In this episode, I'm digging into the idea of not having enough time, and challenging you to think about IF you in fact did have more time would really use it to do serious, focused, committed work on your book, or might you instead find yourself going down an Instagram rabbit hole?

So instead of just finding more "time", what I talk about is creating "Quality Time".

7 thought-starters for creating Quality Time for your book project that we talk about are:

1. Be clear with yourself what your Quality Time is for

2. Get support for your Quality Tim

3. Get inspiration for your Quality Time

4. Decide where Quality Time takes place

5. Don’t be skimpy with your Quality Time

6. Protect your Quality Time

7. Unplug (ish) during your Quality Time

Resources I mentioned:

• Noises.online and Brain.fm