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| Best kept secrets to writing a novel - Bet you know these! ♥️
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September 21, 2022
Oakland, CA
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| | Clients and students are both surprised and relieved to learn that I have to restart my focus, like, five times a day. Not kidding.
It's like some part of my brain forgets that I'm writer, forgets what I'm doing with my life, what I want -- all of it.
But then I remember.
Something happens... I usually throw an internal tantrum and to calm down, I'll take a stomping walk up (and down) the steep hills in my neighborhood. Then I calm down, connect to my heart, and reconnect to what's next for me from this internalized list.
What I'm calling -- very tongue in cheek -- the best kept secrets to writing a novel. I bet you know many of these if not all. - Build a writing habit. Regular and sustainable works better than following some rule others created.
- Practice self-compassion, which comes in handy as you learn to write whatever, no self-censorship; the power of the writing comes from the truth, as well as expressing reality as you see it (or as your character sees it) through the senses.
- Practice the ability to show up day after day. Yes, habits.
- Practice trust -- the ability to trust the unseen and unknown. We don’t know where creativity comes from. We don’t know where language comes from, we don’t know where life comes from, but we can shape and mold and guide and direct.
- Find a community. Writers may write alone (most do) but they succeed together.
- Practice being an audience. We write to be read. even if it’s by an audience of one - yourself.
- Bring your whole self. You are putting yourself in your stories and it is scary, and it’s alive. We want aliveness in our stories.
What else would you put on this list?
Do you need any support with stepping into these practices?
If so, reach out to me for a discovery call, where we explore together how I may support you.
I offer 1-1 coaching consulting sessions for fiction writers at all levels and all stages of the writing process.
I also offer on ongoing group coaching program for writers who have competed a novel and want discerning individualized support in an intimate community of writers all looking to revise, polish, and publish their science fiction/fantasy novels.
Check out these offers here:
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Have a happy and creative week! Happy Writing!
All my best,
Beth
P.S. The latest episode is up for the podcast, How To Write The Future, where we discussed ways to write about different cultures with sensitivity, how to write characters readers will relate to, and ways to promote your books with educator and author, Ann Break. She has a request for listeners, so listen to the end. Thanks!
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Beth Barany
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She specializes in helping writers experience clarity, so they can write, revise, and proudly publish their novels to the delight of their readers.
Her courses are packed with useful hands-on information that you can implement right away. Her transformational consulting sessions help you step into the author life you want with ease and joy.
More resources on publishing, book marketing, and novel writing are on her blog, for and by creative writers, Writer's Fun Zone.
For fun, Beth loves walking her hilly neighborhood, puttering in her garden, and watching YouTube videos about the space industry. Beth lives in Oakland, California with her husband, Ezra Barany, also a novelist, and their cats.
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