If you follow my Facebook or LinkedIn, (links below) you know I’ve been writing a book called, Corporate Girl Takes a Girl, one woman’s reclamation on a stripper pole and how you can apply pole wisdom to your professional life.
Guess what? It’s done! Or, the initial manuscript, anyway. I finished it while I was in California two weeks ago.
Wait, does’t it take something like five years, sleepless nights, pack after pack of Marlboro’s and loads of chocolate to write a book?
Yes, sometimes it does. And, I’ve already written that book.
This time, I wanted to do it differently. Easier, freer. Not bogged down in an unending quagmire of days of isolated writing.
In other words, I wanted to have a plan.
So I found a resource called, How to Write Your Novel in Nine Weeks, by Bill Dodds. (Kindle, $3.99).
What? Nine Weeks?
Yep. You make an outline first. Plot out your narrative, and get busy. Every day, you sit down and write 500 words a day. Then you stop. That’s it.
No nocturnal snacking, no spool of worry about the formidable blank page. None of that. Just 500 words per day.
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Producing 500 words a day, making notes for the next day, then stopping? SO. MUCH. EASIER.
I just followed the outline, and my notes and it worked. Nine weeks later, I have a manuscript.
I’ll tell you right now, I don’t have the answers to your questions. Like, when will it be published? How will you publish it? When can I read It? Will it be on Amazon?
I don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t know. Yes, I’d love it to be on Amazon.
Just give me a few weeks to digest the process and regroup. I’m excited you’re excited.
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So happy for you!!!
Thank you Viki! Wonderful to see your comment, beautiful!
thank you Viki!
Nice! Can’t wait . Thanks for the resource
Thank you Deanna, I’ll save your signed copy!
thank you DeAnna!
Fantastic!!! So proud of you. I’m compiling a book with some GHS journalism grads- just in initial planning. I’ll tell you about it when we zoom and get some more concrete ideas.
I’m envious- even though I can teach the heck out of writing- struggle to do it myself when it’s about myself
Hi Mrs. Wall! Would be delighted to zoom and learn more about your project. You gave me an amazing writing foundation back there at GHS. Appreciate you.