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7 Weekly Tasks For Writers
There are so many things we are meant to keep up with nowadays! There‘s
real life, family and the day job, plus exercise and chores… oh yes, and
then there‘s writing, marketing, social networking, selling, promotion and
all things book related.
To keep you sane, here are 7 weekly tasks for authors.
That‘s just
one per day… surely we can all manage that!
1.
Write. The most important thing for authors/writers is to write. It
should be every day, but at least once a week. You might be working on a
new book, or some articles, or your diary. But certainly, you must write!
2. Take an Artist’s Date. As we write, we use up creative reserves that need filling now and then.
The Artist‘s Date is from Julia Cameron‘s The Artist‘s Way
, an excellent book. It is just time out to
refill your creative well. Maybe a trip to the local art gallery, or bookshop, or just a walk by the river on
your own. Anything that sparks ideas and allows your mind to absorb, not create.
3. Learn something new. Continuous learning will keep you on the edge of success and stop the
stagnation that occurs when you don‘t learn. There is no excuse for not learning now, as knowledge is
so freely available on the internet. I read other blogs, listen to podcasts, download audiobooks, read
physical and ebooks, there are even online University courses for free now.
4. Network with authors, bloggers or readers online. Social networking is supportive and can
also help with learning, promotion and reading, so you may be able to achieve multiple tasks in one
hit! You can network in person at a writer‘s group or seminar, or network online through Twitter,
Facebook and other communities. You can always find a niche online with other people interested in
what you are doing.
5. Read. Stephen King says ―Writers are readers‖ and if you don‘t have time to read, you aren‘t a
writer. I‘m not sure you need to be told to read, as most of us can be seen with books in hand at every
spare moment! I‘m the bookish nerd in the corner!
6. Do something towards marketing and promoting yourself or your book. This may be a
blog post, a guest post/article, perhaps a press release, a YouTube video, calling someone who could
get you a speaking gig, emailing a bookshop, creating a marketing plan. There are so many ideas, but
even 1 per week will get you so much closer to your goals. That‘s 52 marketing/promotion actions in 1
year!
7. Celebrate. So often we get through weeks of producing and writing slog and forget to celebrate
what we are doing. Write down your word count, number of books sold, income, website stats and sub-
scribers, twitter followers and any other stats that are meaningful to you. Return to this every few
weeks and see how far you have come. Well done for this week!
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The Law of Attraction For Writers
The Law of Attraction gained a huge audience with the global
success of The Secret
a few years ago, and is still followed by many
although there also seems to be a bit of a backlash against it‘s
popularity these days.
Whatever your opinions of the Law of Attraction, the principles
can still help authors and writers on their journey.
The basic principles
(according to Wikipedia
) are: Decide what you want, Ask for it specifically,
Feel, behave and know that you already have it, Be detached from the outcome and the extra piece that
is very important (and often missed) is…Focus on doing what you need to in order to achieve
it. Take action and it will happen.
How can the Law of Attraction help you as a writer or author?
Deciding what you want from your journey as a writer is important if you want to achieve goals
along the way. If you want to write a book, you need to make that decision and then work towards it. If
you don‘t know what you are aiming for, you will not make a career or a success from your writing or
your books.
Ask for it and believe you can have it. This is related to positive affirmations and is a lot
about how worthy you feel. Can you say out loud ―I am creative, I am an author‖? You need to be sure
that you can achieve what you ask for, or it won‘t happen. Whether you ask God or the Universe, or
just yourself for what you want, then you need to have this positive energy behind it. You can
be a
writer, you can
be an author, you can
sell your books.
Act as if you already have it. In other words, Fake it until you make it. Start saying those affir-
mations and telling people who are a writer (you are writing aren‘t you?!). Soon enough, it will be true.
Be detached from the outcome. It isn‘t not caring about what happens. It is about taking the
unexpected in your stride and changing direction as things happen. You just don‘t know the way in
which you will become a published author.
Focus and take action. Once you have decided on what you want and you have the mindset to
succeed, you then have to put in the hours and the effort to make it happen.
You can
have what you want, but what will you do to make it happen, and what price do
you need to pay?
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Authors: 5 Ways You Can Be Your Own
Alchemist
Alchemy is the science and art of turning what is base into
something precious. It means transformation and renewal, death and
rebirth. There are many myths, legends and secrets around alchemy and
it has been a creative muse for many people throughout the centuries.
Here are 5 ways you can be your own alchemist:
1.
Take your darkest and hidden secrets and turn them into
nuggets of gold. We all have our dark and dirty memories, but you can
turn them into the basis for brilliant writing. It is not about baring your
soul, but using what is down there and transforming it. Fictionalise it.
Use the lessons to share your wisdom. Your story is original and people
want to hear it. You are unique and you can shape that into brilliance.
2. Edit your work dramatically. Turn your worst writing into something great. Sometimes
our writing itself is base and dirty. It needs refining, sometimes drastically. The alchemist used fire to
destroy and refine. You may need to be as brutal with your writing to make it into something beautiful.
3. Transform yourself. Learn, grow and change to develop your self and your writing. ―The book
you write will change your life‖ Seth Godin. I truly believe this. The experience of writing a book,
whether it is for you alone or for many readers, can transform you into a new person.
4. Test and refine your methods and works. The alchemists were always looking for new ways
to reach The Philosopher‘s Stone. To be the one to finally turn lead into gold. They were chemists, sci-
entists always experimenting. You also need to experiment as an author. Learn from failure and con-
tinue to move on. Try different techniques and methods. Include new ways of writing as well as book
promotion and sales options. This is a lifetime of work, so you have time to make the changes.
5. Include both spirituality and practicality into your writing. Alchemists have been linked
with both the science of chemistry and also esoteric spirituality. Combining both creates a powerful
writing career. Authors need to stay in touch with their soul and spirit in order to create and give their
energy to the work. But equally, authors need a practical sensibility in order to deal with business,
publishing and book promotion. To be entirely focuses on one without the other is useless.
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15 Ways Modern Art Galleries Can
Inspire Writers
I love modern art galleries and go to them whenever
I am in a large city. They spark creative ideas and I
leave feeling refreshed and ready to write more!
Here are 15 ways Modern Art Galleries can
inspire writers and authors.
1. Writing Exercise: Sit in front of a piece of art/installation/painting and write what you see.
Describe the piece and what it says to you. Modern art is fantastic for this because you can‘t just say
―It‘s a portrait of a young woman with a dog‖. Often the pieces are entirely based on your
interpretation.
2. Use as a setting in your novel. Notice all the physical details of the place, the various rooms,
how you could use them. Would your characters meet here in the vast white open space of the main
hall? Or in one of the obscure video dark rooms with disturbing images on screen? How does the set-
ting inform their relationship?
3. Write notes from the display description. Just copy down phrases that touch you in some
way. I did this at the Tate Modern a few weeks ago: ―I work until enough of my art has flowed into its
body‖ (Jean Arp). What images do these words conjure up for you? My notes also said ―body parts on a
baking tray‖ and ―jackdaw and hooded crow skewered by arrows‖. I bet you can see those images!
4. Free associate from one of the
pieces. Just write down all the words that come
to mind. Do it in a mind map format
so you can
spiral off in all directions from each word. One of
the evocative pieces at the Tate was ―30 Pieces of
Silver
‖ by Cornelia Parker.
The words bring to mind Judas and betrayal (for
me anyway!) but it was a hanging installation of
circular displays featuring discarded silverware
crushed by a bulldozer. You could free associate
on that alone for hours!
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8. Change your writing scene. Sometimes the act of writing somewhere else can help you with
ideas and different sections of your project. Buy a coffee in the Gallery cafe and sit and write for an
hour.
9. Use it as a venue for a meeting with another author. Sometimes we can spend so much time
writing alone, it is good to connect in person. Modern Art Galleries often have great meeting places so
you can hang out and chat, and then wander round the galleries together doing some of the exercises
above.
10. Understand you need to get your work
out there.
Many writers get stressed by the slow progres-
sion of their book and the difficulties they face
along the way. They may procrastinate over
every last sentence and potential problem.
Modern art is a good wake up call for this as you
will hate a lot of the work displayed, and you will
wonder how the hell that could possibly be a)
finished and b) worthy of an art gallery. But the
artist has said ―this is my work‖ and people can
like it or not. It is out there and people are react-
ing which is better than having it in a studio or
computer away from the world.
5. Listen for dialogue. Certain types of people go to Modern Art Galleries, but you don‘t know who
they are until you listen. Sit in the lobby or a public area and listen for snatches of conversation. Write
notes on what you hear. This will give you plenty more material and surprising insights into what oth-
ers think of the piece.
6. Browse the gift shop for marketing ideas. I have found Modern Art Galleries have great gift
shops with quirky ideas for items related to static pieces of art. Can you use some of these ideas in your
own marketing?
7. Use it as your Artists Date.
This is an idea from Julia Cameron‘s The Artist‘s Way
(brilliant
book!). As creative people, we give out a lot of our ideas and creative
juice which needs replenishing sometimes. An Artist‘s Date is time out
to refill our creative wells and allow new ideas to surface and spark.
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11. Understand the Body of Work. I love this phrase and feel that as authors we need to embrace
it as visual artists do. The book you are working on is one piece of a whole lifetime, a whole body of
work embracing all you are and all you want to express in the written word. I don‘t think the successful
visual artists stop and obsess over one piece, they are moving onto the next. Get that book out of you
and move onto the next one. Embrace them all as experiments along the way!
15. Be silly. I find some modern art utterly ridiculous! As authors we need to be a little silly some-
times and not take ourselves so seriously
! The galleries often have children‘s areas with play things or
just take a friend and laugh at whatever takes your fancy. I took my husband once and we ended doing
tracings on coloured paper with crayons on one exhibit (it was interactive!) and bouncing off huge
white foamy trees. Fun, fun, fun!
12. Research one of the Artists for a character
sketch. Pick one of the pieces you like (or hate) and write
down the name of the artist. When you get home, Google
them and find out more about their work and their history.
Use this for a character sketch. You may be surprised by
what you find. For example, I am fascinated by
Patricia Piccinini
whose very cute Vespa characters I fell in
love with at one exhibition, but delving further into her
work, you find she does these disturbing mutated crea-
tures
as well. What a fantastic mind!
14. Use your visit to inspire a blog post. Your blog needs new content and it gives you an excuse
to write! This post is my own example.
13. Research one of the Artists and evaluate their
online presence. Visual artists need a ‗platform‘ as
much as authors do. How else can you sell work and get
exhibitions and press coverage. Google one of the artists
and evaluate their online presence. Do they use multi-
media? Do they blog? Have they had media attention?
How can you learn from them?
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The Creative Penn Podcasts
On Writing Tips and Genre Writing
J.C. Hutchins
on Writing Thriller Novels and Publishing Success
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on Writing Adventure Novels and Book Marketing
Mur Lafferty
on Writing Novels and Top Tips for NaNoWriMo
Tips for Sci-Fi and Fantasy Authors
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The Creative Penn podcasts are interviews, information and inspiration on Writ-
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are free to download in mp3 format from each of the links below. There is also a
text overview of each interview so you can tell whether you would like it. You can
also subscribe to the podcast on iTunes here
.
Alastair Humphreys
on Travel Writing
and Achieving Outrageous Goals
Alexis Grant
on Writer‘s Retreats and Travel Writing
Philippa Ballantine
on her 12 year overnight publishing success, and
writing fantasy
Joanna Penn
on Writing and Publishing
Tom Evans
, the BookWright on Dealing with Writer‘s Block
Lauren Roche
on Writing as Therapy and her Inspirational
Memoir
Writing family memoir
and humour with Jane Grieve
On the Business of Writing
Dale Beaumont
on How to be an Author-Entrepreneur
Grant McDuling
on the Business of Selling Words and Making
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Seth Harwood
, author of ‗Jack Wakes Up‘ on podcasting to print
publication
Iggy Pintado
on connection and using social media for book
promotion
Roger C. Parker
on How to Build Your Online Platform
Karen Schmidt
, CSP, on Speaking about your book
On Publishing Options
Joanna Penn
on How Publishing Has Changed and How Authors Must Change Too
Julia McCutchen
on Brilliant Book Proposals and the Traditional Publishing Process
Henry Baum
from Self-Publishing Review on developments in self-publishing
Steve Tiano
on Book Design and Layout for Self-Publishing
The Creative Penn Podcasts
Matthew Cavnar
from Vook.com on How the Vook is Changing Publish-
ing
Kirk Biglione
on Ebooks and Digital Media
Heather Wallace
on Print-on-demand and Online Marketing
Neal Hoskins
on Publishing Books as iPhone apps
On Marketing Your Book and Building an Author
Platform
Joan Kremer
on writing and being an author in Second Life
Trevor Young
, the PR Warrior on Tips for Book Promotion
Joanna Penn
interviewed on BookSquare University on Building Your Author Platform
Dana Lynn Smith
on Book Marketing Plans
Jeffrey Kafer
on being an Audiobook Voice Talent and how you can DIY
Blogging Basics for Authors
with Joel Williams, Blog Tech Guy
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About Joanna Penn and
The Creative Penn
www.TheCreativePenn.com
If you want to know a bit more about me, then check out these posts and interviews:
*
My Writing History
, and My Writing Room and Writing Tools
,
*
Interview with me
about book marketing, tips for twitter and my day job, from Alexis
Grant’s Aspir-
ing Author blog,
* Interview with me on EPublishers Weekly
,
* Video interview with me on GetPublishedTV
,
* Interview with me on Visual Arts Junction
.
* Audio interview with me from JuliaMcCutchen
—How to identify the right publishing option for
your book
Hi, I‘m Joanna Penn! I‘m the author of 3 non-fiction books, a blogger at
The Creative Penn.com
, a speaker and an international business IT
consultant. I am also the creator of the Author 2.0 Program
—Using web
2.0 tools for writing, publishing, sales and promotion.
I‘m British, but I currently live in Brisbane, Australia. I‘m passionate
about helping aspiring authors understand their options in the new world
of Web 2.0. There are amazing opportunities for writing, publishing,
internet sales and promotion right now for people who grasp the
possibilities.
Connect with me in one of these places:
joanna@TheCreativePenn.com
http://twitter.com/thecreativepenn
I started TheCreativePenn.com
after I self-published my first
book and wanted to share what I have learned along the way. I
have just started on the writer‘s journey myself so I share
everything in the hope it might help you too (and save you
money and time!). The blog is now no. 4 on Australia‘s Top
Writing Blogs
and features on AllTop.com in Books
. It was also
voted one of the Top 25 Best Writing Blogs on Editor
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.
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