Rob Parnell's Writing Academy Blog

Dear Fellow Writer, OMG, it's the end of the week again! Did you achieve your weekly writing goals? I hope so. Every little helps. Try not to judge yourself on your daily word output. Rather add up all you did in a week - and divide that number by five. That should make you feel better! This week I wrote 10,000 words for my new novel,  Purge , bringing it to 31,500, about half way through the first draft. All well and good but I realized I'd left out quite a bit of story that will need to be added next week - before I carry on with the second half of the book. Some of my Amazon Kindle books are currently selling for around the ONE DOLLAR mark. Click HERE to find out more. I've also put up an interview on my author page at Amazon. Keep writing!  Imagineering Your Future Imagineering Your Future People often ask me about effective goal-setting in relation to a writing career.   Where do you start? Well, what you have to remember about any

Dear Fellow Writer, Thanks to everyone who bought my latest writing resource,  From Zero to Hero: How to Make a LIVING Writing Fiction ,  last week. You made it #1 in two Amazon categories - for which I'm very grateful. This week I'm not selling anything in particular. Just shooting the breeze with you. Actually I've been writing a new thriller - a thoroughly absorbing activity, I must say. Currently up to 20,000 words - about a quarter of the way through. My intention is keep going with this novel every day and finish the first draft without stopping for a break. Maintaining that kind of focus can be challenging but is not impossible.  Clearly, lots of other authors do it! I hope the following article will help improve your own motivation to write and follow your heart. Keep writing! The Buckminster Fuller Principle - Or, How to Stop Worrying About Money and Start Living        Before I began the  Easy Way to Write , I wasn't sure how to make the transiti