How To Write A Book, 4 Traps You Must Avoid

Writing a book is a joyous time filled with satisfaction and of course a lot of hard work. As an author, there are many traps you can fall into that will not only affect your profits, they will affect your productivity - you want to get your book completed as soon as possible right? Since finishing your book, and making as much money as possible from sales are two common goals, let us take a look at four traps you must avoid - and how to avoid them.

  1. Perfectionist trap.

    2. This trap catches every new author, and many who have been writing for a long time. Let me just get this out of the way - perfection does not exist. There, I said it. Now you can let it go. Perfectionism slows you down. It causes you to spend an hour mulling over a paragraph. It makes you edit as you write - a major mistake because it blocks the flow of words onto paper and it drastically slows down your productivity.So how do you escape this trap? Set writing goals every day and meet them. Look at your schedule. How much time can you commit every day to writing? 10 minutes? 20 minutes? More? Grab a pen and paper, or your computer. Grab the next area of your book you are comfortable and ready to write. Set the timer and write. Just write. Everything that enters your head lands on the page. Do not stop. Do not edit yourself. Do not delete anything - just write. When the timer beeps and your time is up, finish your thought and put your writing away. Editing is what you do when you are done getting you book on paper.

  2. Procrastinator’s trap.

    3. Oddly enough the more you want to write a book, the harder it can be to actually do it. I think the biggest reason for this is fear. Fear of failure and even fear of success, can keep us from getting our book done. The good news is that the solution is simple. You know how you clean the kitchen every day because it needs to be done, you feed the dog, you do your laundry etc…All of these things you do not because you enjoy them but because they need to be done. I am assuming you enjoy writing much more than you enjoy cleaning your kitchen, right? Set aside time to write every day. In fact, forget the kitchen - your writing is much more important.

  3. Publication Trap

    4. . Your book is done so now what? This trap catches and holds too many writers in its grasp. Traditional publication has a long history and the gatekeepers - those wonderful people that take 6 months to tell you ‘no’ they are not interested in publishing your book - are standing arm in arm across the threshold of publication. Do you continue running into that brick wall or do you find another way? A better way?I would like to tell you that many amazing writers, well known writers, have chosen a different method of publication. John Grisham, Deepak Chopra, Mark Twain, James Joyce, Virginia Wolff, e.e. Cummings, William Blake, Edgar Allen Poe, and Henry David Thoreau just to name a few.

  4. Passive marketing trap

    5. . Do not fall into this trap! You wrote the book, published the book and now you are going to let it collect dust on the shelves? No matter how you publish your book, you must market your book. Marketing begins with a website but it does not end there. If you want to sell books, you have to tell people about it. Press releases, book signings, interviews and yes a marketing strategy to get your book on Amazon’s bestsellers list. It can be done but only if you are proactive.

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Bob Burnham
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