Insights for Leading

When it comes to authoring a book, many aspire, but only few achieve their aspiration. Previously, I have shared six (6) important reasons why your book project might have stalled. Today, I will cap it all with the most practical issue on this series: Many aspiring authors lack understanding of the book writing process. Note the word "PROCESS." Process is defined as a series of actions or steps taken in order to achieve a particular end. Rather than mastering and working with a process that works, you might fall into the common trap of using a laisse a faire approach. T ruth be told, ideas come to us spontaneously, but we achieve excellence by processing and organizing our ideas properly through planning and discipline. If you merely act by the impulse of inspiration and without planning, you would put the cart before the horse at different times. For example, you might want to title your book before writing it. While that has worked for some people and some

After publishing my first post on why many book projects of aspiring authors stall, I have been getting responses from people who have caught renewed zeal to pick up their manuscripts and finish it up, in light of what they now know. This is encouraging indeed, but there is yet more to be known about this. What other challenges could account for non-completion of your book writing project and how can you surmount them? 1. YOU LISTEN TO NAYSAYERS. It is good to be surrounded by well-meaning people, but you must sift what you receive from them. Good intention does not always mean good insight. If you keep listening to people who tell you that “You are not good enough,” you will never make progress in whatever you are doing. Others may say “People don’t read books” “Books don’t sell” “No one has done it like this before” “I have tried it but it didn’t work for me” Naysayers might mean no harm, but their words also afford no help. Their words only drain you. Surround yourself

“Coach Bright, I have been writing a book for years now, but I have not been able to finish it. I have two to three other manuscripts too. In fact, I have abandoned them for a while, but I guess I’d pick them up now that you have urged me to write and publish my book.” I often get this kind of comments from participants at events where I speak as well as prospective clients. But the fact is, if you share the same complain with these people but don’t know the things I am about to discuss in this article, you would still have your book unpublished by the end of the year. So, why exactly do people fail to finish writing their book and merely pile up manuscripts? And how can exactly can you move from the aspiring zone to become a published author in record time? Having a book idea is never enough, neither is determination. So, what really works? Come with me and get these secrets! First, like many other aspiring authors, you did not state your objectives for writing from