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    Angela Booth's Top 70 Writing Tips: Write More, Improve Your Writing, And Make More Money
    Angela Booth's Top 70 Writing Tips: Write More, Improve Your Writing, And Make More Money
    Angela Booth's Top 70 Writing Tips: Write More, Improve Your Writing, And Make More Money
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    Angela Booth's Top 70 Writing Tips: Write More, Improve Your Writing, And Make More Money

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    New edition, 2023

    What's holding you back from the writing career of your dreams? If you want to write more, sell more, and have more fun writing... it's easier than you can imagine. Discover the secret to writing every day, and becoming a prolific writer.

    Angela Booth shares her writing tips garnered from 30 years of writing. 

    You'll find writing tips to help you to write anything you choose:  books, novels, articles... Become prolific, and eliminate procrastination.

    You'll discover:

    • How to let your subconscious mind do the work of writing for you.
    • Ways to structure your writing: you can use these forms to write anything you choose, including articles, short stories, novels, blog posts.
    • Five ways to turn off your inner editor, and three ways to bring him back when you need him.
    • How to develop your imagination: see it, and believe it, so that you can achieve any goal you care to set.
    • How to get inspired on demand.
    • Sixteen professional writers' secrets to help you to write more.
    • Ways to set writing goals that are fun and achievable for you, and ideas for scaling up your goals so that you can achieve your dreams as a writer.
    • How to write truthfully and write more: turn off your inner censor. 
    • Six ways to get your writing unstuck, and four ways to write when you have NO TIME to write.
    • How to get comfortable outside your comfort zone. Now you can confidently take on any writing jobs and tasks you choose.

    Exercises: each writing tip has an accompanying exercise, so that you can put the tip into practice instantly.
    These writing tips will become part of your life, and and will change your life.

    Get started today.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAngela Booth
    Release dateMay 30, 2016
    ISBN9781533704856
    Angela Booth's Top 70 Writing Tips: Write More, Improve Your Writing, And Make More Money

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      Angela Booth's Top 70 Writing Tips - Angela Booth

      Angela Booth's Top 70 Writing Tips

      Angela Booth's Top 70 Writing Tips

      Write More, Improve Your Writing, And Make More Money

      Angela Booth

      Angela Booth

      Contents

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      Introduction

      1. Make Mud: Generate Text Generously

      Exercise 1: Do Ten Minutes of Personal Writing a Day

      2. Let Your Subconscious Mind Do the Work for You

      Exercise 2: Write Your Challenge Question for Tonight

      3. Break Through Resistance to Your Writing in 11 Minutes

      Exercise 3: Create a Writing Ritual

      4. Use Index Cards to Structure Your Work

      Exercise 4: Buy a Package of 3X5 Index Cards

      5. Warm up – Don't Be Stingy With Words

      Exercise 5: Make a List of Words Related to Your Current Writing Project

      6. Revitalize Your Imagination

      Exercise 6: Retell Your Favorite Fairy Tale

      7. Make Lists So You Can Write More

      Exercise 7: Write a List of the Ways You Could Use Lists

      8. Use Write-Thinking: It Tells You How and Why to Write More

      Exercise 8: Write-Think About a Current Challenge You Have in Any Area of Your Life

      9. Write an Entry in Your Daily Log Every Day

      Exercise 9: Set up Your Daily Log

      10. Turn Negatives Into Golden Opportunities

      Exercise 10: Write About One Negative in Your Life

      11. Turn off Your Internal Editor, and Just Write

      Exercise 11: Find an Image of a Dumpster

      12. Write Down Your BIG (or WIG) Writing Goal for This Year

      Exercise 12: Write your WIG Writing Goal

      13. Write Sh*tty First Drafts

      Exercise 13: Write Badly on Your Current Writing Project

      14. Create a Wish List Once a Month and Write More

      Exercise 14: Create a Wish List Today

      15. Tell Your Own Fortune – Make It Wonderful

      Exercise 15: Tell Your Own Fortune

      16. Realize That You're an Original

      Exercise 16: What Do You Gossip About?

      17. Write Essays – (Your Experiences Equal Essays)

      Exercise 17: Choose One of Your Experiences, and Outline an Essay

      18. Conquer Page Fright With Rehearsals – You Don't Have to Be Good

      Exercise 18: Try This Imaginative Process to Eliminate Page Fright

      19. Be Spontaneous and Write More

      Exercise 19: Just for Today, Allow Yourself to Write Spontaneously

      20. Make a Mess and Get Creative

      Exercise 20: Make a Mess!

      21. Keep Your Inventory, It's Your Treasure Chest of Words

      Exercise 21: Create a Process for Archiving Your Writing

      22. Managing Fear (Creative Anxiety) So You Can Write More

      Exercise 22: Breathe – Allow Your Anxiety to Be

      23. What to Do when Real Life Gets in the Way of Your Creative Productivity

      Exercise 23: Write About Your Challenge, Whatever It Is

      24. Get Comfortable With the New: Conquer Negative Bias for No-Limits Writing

      Exercise 24: Write Down the Positive Aspects of a New Idea

      25. Trust Your Creativity: It's Bigger Than You Are

      Exercise 25: Develop a Creative Hobby

      26. Investigate the Rules and Toss Them Out

      Exercise 26: What Rules Have You Set for Yourself?

      27. No Time? Write Anyway!

      Exercise 27: Make Writing the First Thing You Do, Every Day

      28. If It's Not Easy, It's Not Right for You

      Exercise 28: What's Easy for You to Write?

      29. Sometimes when It's Not Easy You Need to Push

      Exercise 29: Think About Your Last Episode of Resistance

      30. Talking: The Magic of Dictation

      Exercise 30: Try Image Streaming

      31. You're the Best! When You Know You're a Great Writer, You'll Write More

      Exercise 31: Affirm That You're a GREAT Writer

      32. Read Your Writing Aloud: Use the Feedback Loop

      Exercise 32: Read Yesterday's Writing Aloud

      33. Be Willing to Write BADLY

      Exercise 33: Write Badly Today, All Day

      34. Writing and Mood – You Can Get Into the Writing Mood Anytime, Anywhere

      Exercise: Learn How to Get Into the Writing Mood

      35. Getting Your Writing (or Any Other Task) Unstuck NOW

      Exercise 35: Try the Get Unstuck Exercise

      36. Input, Input, You Need Input to Create Output

      Exercise 36: Create Lists As Input

      37. Listing Save Energy, Because You Take the Writing Process One Step at a Time

      Exercise 37: What Did You Learn from Making Lists?

      38. You Know Much More Than You Think You Do

      Exercise 38: Pick a Topic, Create a List

      39. Use Listing While You're Researching to Write More

      Exercise 39: Writing Topics Are Everywhere

      40. Writing Takes Time: You're Writing More Than You Think

      Exercise 40: Focus on the NOW when You Write

      41. Explore Your Limits to Expand Them

      Exercise 41: Who Are You?

      42. Change Your Self-Image With Affirmations

      Exercise 42: Power up Your Affirmations With Emotion

      43. Your Affirmations Will Change Your Reality, but You've Got to Work at It

      Exercise 43: Take Action on Your Affirmations

      44. Brainstorm for Easy Writing – You'll Write More

      Exercise 44: Do More Brainstorming

      45. All Writing Happens in the Moment: Not Tomorrow or Next Year

      Exercise 45: You Don't Need to Wait Until You Have Time to Write

      46. Struggle Is Good, Sometimes

      Exercise 46: Today, Write Something That's Hard for You

      47. Describe and Observe to Enhance Your Writing Skills

      Exercise 47: Describe Your Office, or Current Location

      48. Scare Yourself by Writing Outside Yourself

      Exercise 48: Feel the Fear

      49. Writing Goals: Big and Little

      Exercise 49: Choose a Big Goal, and Plan Backwards from It

      50. Word Counts: Every Little Word Adds Up

      Exercise 50: Set a Daily Word Count Goal for Your Primary Writing Project

      51. Realize That All Writing Is Improvisation

      Exercise 51: Improvise Today

      52. Everything You Write Needs a Spark

      Exercise 52: What's the Spark?

      53. Use Timed WritingTo Write More

      Exercise 53: Try Timed Writing for Five Minutes

      54. Using Timed Writing Sessions to Generate Text

      Exercise 54: Generate Text, to Get over Writing Speed Bumps

      55. Using Timed Writing Sessions to Brainstorm

      Exercise 55: Find a Project, Do a Timed Writing Session

      56. Left Hand, Right Hand: Talking to Your Other Self

      Exercise 56: Ask and Answer Five Questions

      57. Writing Practice Expands Your Skills

      Exercise 57: Start a Project in Completely New Area of Writing

      58. Your Writing Practice Integrates

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