Rob Parnell's Writing Academy Blog

Dear Fellow Writer, Thanks for being a valued subscriber to my weekly newsletter.   I hope things are going well for you and that your writing is bringing all the joy you desire. In today's article we look at finding the motivation to keep writing a long work. BTW: The Easy Way to Write a Novel is still at #1 in the Education section on Amazon Kindle. Go here for that.   THIS WEEK'S ARTICLE: Write Here, Write Now Writing a long work is really about turning a whim into a compulsion. There’s no other way around it. You have to decide, early on, that you will   finish   your novel – at least the first draft – and you will keep going until it’s done. That’s the trick – the easy answer – DECIDE. Commitment follows a firm decision. Personally I give myself time limits – deadlines. Having an end-date seems to be the only way I can visualize completion. Sometimes I go past my deadlines – who doesn’t? - but at least I’m aware of that a...

Dear Fellow Writer, I read a fascinating report yesterday. Apparently one in ten self-published authors now make over $100,000 a year.  That's amazing enough - and something that would surely have been impossible even just ten years ago.  But there's more. The other 90% of writers make less than $500 a year.  Interestingly, the average daily word count of the 90% is less than 1000.  BUT, the average daily word count of the top ten percent (those earning $100K+) is over 2000 words a day! The inference is clear: write 2000 words a day and you're much more likely to move into the big league - and become a bestselling author! But how do you increase your daily word count? Funnily enough, that's the subject of this week's article. How to Write a Lot and Quickly   I’d like to introduce you to the concept of ‘Easy-Writing’ .  I can’t claim to have invented the technique, although my students and subscribe...