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Writers have a mixed blessing — creativity.
Book ideas zoom around in our heads and some of
us never get around to actually writing a book.
We write the great book ideas down somewhere, put
them away, and then the next day or week we have more creative
writing ideas, which we write down again. Before we know
it, we are spewing out these book ideas and everyone
is telling us, “Oh you must write a book!”
So we tell ourselves that we should start writing,
and we belabor ourselves with this should.
You don’t write a book because someone tells
you to. You write a book because you have something
to say. If you feel a burning desire to write, really, from inside,
or you want a book to promote your business, or whatever your writing
purpose, you must allow your writing topic to select you rather
than the other way around. That’s how topic
selection works.
If you open your old drawer and haul out your dusty writing,
you will be editing and proofreading who you were yesterday, not
who you are now, and you will not have the passion to sustain you
through writing a book today. You must determine
your focus.
A little while ago I met a woman at a conference and she told me
that she was writing a book. It was lying half-finished
in her drawer. I asked her what her writing topic was and, in a
voice reminiscent of funerals, she described her book ideas.
So I naturally asked her if she was still interested in that writing
topic now. “No!” Now she was much more interested in…
and she told me of her creative writing interests
today, at which point her voice lifted as did her enthusiasm, propelled
by her energy and smiling face. This was her true writing topic
now.
What are you interested in writing a book about now? I know, “lots
of things.” But what book ideas keep you
up late at night and wake you early in the morning? If nothing does,
then you are right, you are not a writer, not yet. The first thing that
you have to do is wake up and determine
your focus!
Oh I can just hear you now! You know what you want to write
a book about but you are stopping yourself with words like:
“But it is not news.” “But so many people have
picked that writing topic already.” So they may have. And
how many songs have been written about love? And how many books
about cooking? And these are still the hottest selling kinds of
books (if you pardon the double pun!)
Write about what you love, now, today. Write about the book ideas
that keep you up at night. Then find
a hook, an angle, a slant, that makes it special, distinctive,
different than the rest. Find an angle that brings out the unique creative writing
in you, so you can say, finally, “I am writing a book!”
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