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Exit Your Publishing Frenzy in 2022

Exit Your Publishing Frenzy in 2022. That is my new year’s wish for all of us in Writer Wonderland. To slow our roll and our pulses. To find a different way to navigate this very different time. Such an adjustment has everything to do with Attitude.

Attitude may not be Everything, but it Affects Everything. It is not easy to change the longtime habits of our writing career lives. But that is exactly what many of us need to do. Faster does not necessarily win the race, if this in fact even should be a race.

Everyone may be dashing around. Scrambling after crumbs of the publishing pie, ever more agitated as they dash. This happens a lot when opportunities are limited. But, will dashing and scrambling get you where you want to go? Most important, will you enjoy the journey?

What would happen if you were to calm down instead? What would happen if you pulled your emotions out of the equation? Especially those emotions associated with fear. This is the attitude roadmap to follow as you Exit Your Publishing Frenzy in 2022.

Take a detour from the hurry-up highway. Adopt the Long View. Life is long after all. My latest birthday attests to that. Your career path is long also. Wherever you find yourself at present is just one passage on that path. It is not the full story of your writing and publishing career.

Adopt the Wide View also. Step back and look at where you are standing. Ask yourself, “What can I do to put myself in a stronger position toward reaching my goal as an author?” No vague generalities, please. Identify one concrete step after another on the road to your destiny.

Brainstorm these steps toward your personal, individual, unique writer’s dream. Write them down. Review them frequently. Rethink and update them frequently. This is your once-upon-a-time travel guide toward your own happily-ever-after ending.

Think always in terms of strengthening your stance where you are. Toward solidifying your position. That way you will be ready to move forward from a Place of Maximum Possibility when real opportunities come along, as they one day will.

How do you create your Place of Maximum Possibility as a writer? Make your work the best that it can be. Study your writer’s craft. Excellence requires effort, and excellence is the standard you will pursue. At a comfortable pace. Scrambling and dashing are not effective study tools.

How do you create a Place of Maximum Possibility for your publishing career? Build a mighty platform one plank at a time. Be ready to prove to potential publishers that you can reach your readership yourself. You have time to do that mindfully now. No frenzy is required.

How do you create your Place of Maximum Possibility in the writing community? Pay it forward when you can. Pay it backward too, toward all of those who have urged you to believe in yourself and your work. They will rejoice as you Exit Your Publishing Frenzy in 2022.

Meanwhile, ask your crucial questions. How does your attitude need to be adjusted? What fears do you face about your writing career? What do you most eagerly desire to know? Add a question comment to this post, or email me at aliceorrbooks@gmail.com. I will be honored to respond.

Alice Orr – www.aliceorrbooks.com

Alice’s latest novel A Time of Fear & Loving Riverton Road Romantic Suspense Series Book 5 – is available HERE.

A Time of Fear & Loving

Praise for A Time of Fear & Loving: “Alice Orr is the queen of ramped-up stakes and page-turning suspense.” “Warning. Don’t read before bed. You won’t want to sleep.” “The tension in this novel is through the roof.” “I never want an Alice Orr book to end.” “Budding romance sizzles in the background until it ignites with passion.” “The best one yet!”

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How to Put Your Writer Psyche on Your Side

How to Put Your Writer Psyche on Your Side – One Step at a Time. Do the messages you send yourself light your way up the mountainside? Or do they shove you downward into shadowed places? Are you on your fan page or your enemies list? Do you believe you have what it takes to write and be published?

Self-Doubt is the Mighty Adversary of Motivation. Do you say to yourself, “I’m not good enough,” or “What chance do I have?” Wrong-headed thinking steers you in the wrong direction when it comes to pursuing your author ambitions and traveling toward your writing goals.

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How to Put Your Writer Psyche on Your Side – Step 1 – Answer this Question. What is your right-now writing goal? A one-sentence answer, please. Clear, concrete, and very specific. Stop reading this post and craft that sentence. Write it down, big and bold, for your psyche to see. First step taken. You have identified where you want to go.

Step 2 – See Your Goal as Here with You Today. Not somewhere off in a vague future, but sitting next to your keyboard. Waiting within each sentence you write and story note you jot down. Giving you a kickstart into every writing task you undertake.

Step 3 – See Yourself Moving toward Your Goal Today. If you make any progress at all, even a nudge or two, then this is a productive day. That nudge can be on the page or in your imagination. Visible, or maybe invisible to everyone except your storyteller’s soul.

Step 4 – Take Stock. Before today ends, make a written record of everything you have done or thought or said since waking that relates in any way to your current story or your on-going career strategy. If you don’t yet have a Writer’s Journal for this purpose, I urge you to start one.

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Step 5 – So  Crucial that it Could be Another First Step. Make sure your goal is realistic. Do not defeat yourself by filling your plate impossibly full. A tyrannical to-do list is the monster you create for yourself all by yourself. Set reasonable, self-sensitive goals.

Step 6 – The One We Too Often Ignore. Savor what you have accomplished today. Don’t rush off to the next thing just yet. Haste makes waste of your ability to experience your achievements as fully and deeply as you deserve to experience them.

Follow these 6 Steps Every Day. Know your overall goal. Break that goal down into daily expectations, or not. Some of us want a set plan for each day. Others prefer to go with the flow. Do what is comfortable for you, what keeps your head in your writing life game.

If You Don’t Believe You Achieved Enough Today – Look Again. Ask yourself, “Have I done what I undertook today as well as I could?” Factor in the obstacles and setbacks you encountered. If you can answer, “I have done what I could as well as I could do it,” you have had a successful day.

How to Put Your Writer Psyche on Your Side - www.aliceorrbooks.comThink of Each Day as a Jewel on the Thread of Your Life. A jewel on the thread of your writing career. Place it artfully, and never underestimate its worth. Never forget to admire its beauty.

You are Headed up Your Mountain One Step at Time. Building belief in yourself lights the way one day at a time. Nurture that belief always. This is How to Put Your Writer Psyche on Your Side.

Meanwhile, ask your crucial questions. How does your attitude need to be adjusted? What fears do you face about your writing career? What do you most eagerly desire to know? Add a question comment to this post, or email me at aliceorrbooks@gmail.com. I will be honored to respond.

 Alice Orr – www.aliceorrbooks.com

Alice Orr’s Christmas story A Vacancy at the InnRiverton Road Romantic Suspense Series Book 3 – is available on Amazon HERE. Enjoy!

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Praise for A Vacancy at the Inn. “Grabbed me right away and swept me up in the lives of Bethany and Luke.” “Undercurrents of suspense move the story along at an irresistible pace.” “The Miller family is rife with personality quirks, an authentic touch that demonstrates Alice Orr’s skill as a writer.”

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