Become a prolific writer. 

To become a prolific author, one must become a prolific writer, and what that means is that basically you have to write a lot. Like a lot, a lot. The best way to write a lot is to become a chronic writer. 

Write every day, write every week, every month. Constantly be writing something.... Always have a project or two you are working on and writing for. Set yourself goals and deadlines and break them all... Start writing a new project when you’ve barely started your last. Write like if you stopped for too long you would start bleeding out your pores. Write. Finish projects. Start projects. Get your writing our of your system. Don’t panic, you won’t run out of creativity. The amount of writing you can do in a life time is but a drop in the ocean of creativity available for to you. 

Everything is kind of okay. 

but that’s not an interesting story. To make a story compelling and intriguing  you have to ask yourself three questions. Who? What? and most importantly Why? 

Who is your main character? What do they want? and most importantly, Why hasn’t your ‘Who’ gotten their ‘What’. 

Everything is kind of okay is bland. In order to make your book not bland everything has to be either absolutely terrible, with the hope of being fixed. Or so absolutely perfect that something has to be wrong. Everything isn’t okay. or everything is ridiculously okay. Both of these are intriguing. We want to know why, and how your ‘who’ is going to fix it. 

DON’T WAIT 

Happy New Year

Now is the time to make those new years resolutions. This is a terrible idea. If you are anything like myself you will have never actually accomplished a new years resolution, despite having made many each year of your life,or at least in your conscious memory.. I don’t know you though, maybe you remember 6 year old You’s new years resolutions.. maybe you accomplished them, but I certainly didn’t. New years resolutions are fake promises for me. They are a mild idea of a promise.... You expect yourself to fail at them and so you do. 

Don’t make ‘new years resolutions.’ Make Resolutions. You will write your book. And you will write it this year. Write your big brave heart out as much as you can. Don’t let the fear of a new year weigh down on your shoulders. Embrace it. Write it out. 

Even if the only time you write this whole year is today,  you will have written your book this year. (albeit only some of it... but still.) 

Finish something.

GOOGLE IS YOUR FRIEND.

When you are stuck and you want to write more, you’re in the writing mood, you have motivation, but haven’t a clue what to do next… GOOGLE IT. If you are writing an autobiography, try Googling “How to write an autobiography.” If you are writing a romance novel Google: “How to write a romance novel” If you can’t remember the word ‘toast’ Google: “Word for cooked bread.” When you Google “What should I write next in my book?” You will get ideas, Google will be like... “Dude, try adding in some frogs?” But you’ll be all like, “No, that would be incongruous... it would be more likely, that Allan moves to London for a year.”

THINK