Rob Parnell's Writing Academy Blog

Dear Fellow Writer, I hope you're well and happy. This week we continue our look at goal-setting for writers and how to design your future writing life. A cherished student asked me during the week to explain how word count translates to pages in a book. It varies of course but a book page can be anything from 250 to 350 words, depending on the formatting. So that, if you're writing 2000 words a day, that will end up being the equivalent of six to eight pages of a novel.  Doesn't sound like much when you put it like that! In case you've been following, I'm up to 54,000 on the first draft of my latest novel - and that's taken me around five weeks to complete.   Click HERE to find discover my Amazon books . Keep writing!   Creating a Life-Plan for Writers It's important that you see writing success as a process rather than something that happens in a flash or overnight. In the same way that writing a book takes time, sometimes a long tim...

Dear Fellow Writer, I hope you're well and happy. This week we look at goal-setting and how to generate enthusiasm for your future perfect life. In order to be successful at anything, we need to make sure we are happy doing what we do every day. There's no point in wasting time and energy on activities that you don't love. Life is too short for that. Below there are suggestions on how to create an action plan that will motivate and engross you in the years to come. Click HERE to find discover my Amazon books and my video  interview. Keep writing!  Goal Setting for Writers Knowing that anything is possible just because you want it might be a mind-expanding, and certainly thrilling, new experience for you. That's good. A positive feeling about something will carry you a long, long way. But how does this knowledge help you in a pursuit of a writing career? You need to get specific. The following is a process I undertook a dozen years ago th...