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The book I wish I had ten years ago.

By on January 17, 2014 in 1. Discover your story, 3. Publish your Story, 7. Search by Author:, Susan May Warren, Writer's life

Every once in a while you find a book that you wish you had ten years ago.

This is that book.

When I first met Sharon Jenkins, via a talk show/interview, I knew she was special. Energy and enthusiasm for writers simply bubbled out of her, and I immediately saw her heart to help aspiring writers create profitable businesses.

So, when she mentioned her book, Authorpreneurship: Build a successful business as an Author, I knew it was something we wanted for our MBT Marketplace as a resource for our amazing writers.

She worked long and hard to get it to our MBT specifications – something that could serve traditionally published as well as self-published novelists and non-fiction authors.

This is the book I wish I had when I started my writing journey, and I’m proud to announce the launch of this amazing resource!

Watch my fun interview with Sharon!

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How to sell that NaNoWriMo project!

By on November 25, 2013 in 3. Publish your Story, 4. Writer’s Life, Inspiration and Life Coaching, 7. Search by Author:, Delivering Convincing Proposals, Encourage Me!, How do I Pitch my Book?, How do I Promote my book?, How do I write a Synopsis?, Learn the art of Social Networking, Susan May Warren, Writing Conferences
I am so excited about this product – it’s been months (okay, years!) in the making, but I’ve taken everything I know about selling novels (and I’ve sold 40 of my own, not to mention helped countless others with their proposal projects) and put them in this step-by-step, 8 lesson video/audio series, complete with writable PDF handouts for you to fill out on your computer.
And examples from my own files.
And an easy method for writing that dreaded synopsis. And even a template for the marketing part of your proposal (the yikes! part). It’s like a proposal paint-by-numbers!
And, oh yeah, an optional workbook for those who like to scribble out their ideas by hand.
Frankly, it’s everything just short of me coming to your living room and looking your shoulder while you put your proposal together. And probably you wouldn’t like that anyway, because I get hungry and I’d humbly ask for hot cocoa. And popcorn.
This is a popcorn free product. But pretty much everything else is included.
AND…during the month of November (NaNoWriMo!_
we have 3 Novel Proposal deals!
  • Deal #1: First…from TODAY until December 1st, get $20 OFF – yep!, that’s nearly 30% OFF the regular price! JUST Enter: WRIMODEAL in your coupon code.
  • Deal #2: During this special only, get the Novel Proposal Workbook at 25% off the cover price!

And that’s not all.

  • Deal #3: We want your story to be epic! So, our epic Novel Proposal sale comes comes with the FREE audio/video class:
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Write a novel in a month

Keep on writing, keep on writing

By on November 18, 2013 in 1. Discover your story, 2. Create Your Story, 4. Writer’s Life, Inspiration and Life Coaching, 7. Search by Author:, Encourage Me!, House Calls, Susan May Warren, Writers Q &A

I wrote a novella last week. 31, 160 words. That’s over 5K a day. Now, here’s what we all have to keep in mind – many of these words will have to be rewritten or deleted. I will have to go scene by scene and make sure I’ve inserted storyworld, and the 5 Ws to anchor the scene. I’ll have to ask what the main emotion of the scene is, and how to strengthen it. I’ll have to tighten my writing, make it clearer, make sure I’m not overwriting.

I’ll have to make sure I am telling the story between the quotes, and that I am wrapping up my dialogue with the right meaningful action and body language, adding zingers.

And, I’ll have to make sure I all the ingredients of the Scene Tension Equation.

All these things are in my brain as I’m writing, trust me. But, if I want to forget ahead and give myself something to work with, then I have to be like Dori in Finding Nemo.

Don’t look back. Forget everything but my goal….reaching the end. (or, P Sherman, 42 Wallaby Way)

But how do we keep that focus? I know it can be hard, because even in the middle of a scene you suddenly think: WAIT! I just came up with something BRILLIANT and I need to add it into chapter 3!

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NaNoWriMo Success Tip: How to balance your time!

By on November 11, 2013 in 4. Writer’s Life, Inspiration and Life Coaching, 7. Search by Author:, Susan May Warren, Writer's life

Listen, I know you’re all swamped with working, running a household and writing NaNo. You probably don’t even have time to read this blog. But in the chance you do, I thought I’d give you a few tips that help me juggle my life as MBT Head Coach, being a sports mom and writing.

Establish a set time every day, or every other day to write and keep this time sacred. Block it out on your calendar. If you only write “when you can,” then there will always be things that will get in the way…from walking the dog to making chocolate chip cookies… Set a time, and keep that appointment with yourself, telling yourself you are investing in your dreams.
Keep a writing Journal and every day log what you have done, and your goals for the next day. You will access different sides of your brain as you are writing than you do when you are working, and instead of always keeping both sides active, if you write down where you were and where you want to go each day, you can let your creative side “rest” while you are at work, knowing you can pick right back up when you return to your writing enclave.

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