Write the Damn Book Already

17: How to Write Without Immediate Feedback


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Click Here to ask your book writing and publishing questions!

Talking to people face-to-face (whether 1:1, in a small group, or from a stage) allows you to gauge their response (and pivot if/when necessary).

But when you’re writing a book, you don’t have that luxury.

Even when writing posts, you can get pretty quick feedback. But a book feels so…permanent!

In this episode, I'll guide you through how to write through the feeling that you’re writing “in a vacuum” where no one is giving you the same kind of immediately reaction you get when talking face-to-face and give you a great secret for writing through this new experience in a way that feels empowering and expansive!

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AMAZING UPGRADE to announce for Book Writing Made Simple 

We now have pop-up writing containers! 

This is an opportunity for you to join a Zoom room for 60 minutes, where everyone will be on mute, writing their book or catching up on trainings (so they can efficiently and excitedly write their book!).

My hope is that this will help to create a collective energy of "doing the damn thing" that ALL of us need from time to time!

BOOK WRITING MADE SIMPLE is a 12-month program for writing powerful, thought-provoking non-fiction or memoir that readers can't put down. 

The book writing process I provide in Book Writing Made Simple is the result of 18+ years of helping hundreds of authors get their books written. It addresses the critical (and often overlooked) aspects of writing a book that:

👏 makes a deep and lasting connection with readers (and is therefore recommended again and again)

👏 creates unshakeable confidence in the author's (that's you!) abil


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