Jul

8

MindManager’s Task Information tool helps you write and finish your book on time

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Tuesday’s writing tip for authors

Mindjet’s MindManager, a mind mapping software program, makes it easy to set-up a realistic writing schedule for your book and pace your writing, so you can finish your manuscript on time. You can use the same map used to plan and display your book’s table of contents to schedule your writing. [...]

Jul

1

Use steps as an organizing tool for writing a nonfiction book about a complex topic

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Tuesday’s writing tip for authors
One of the easiest ways to write a book about a complex topic is to your ideas into the steps needed to solve a problem or achieve a goal. Organizing your book into the steps needed for success provides a framework that simplifies your task and provides the focus you need [...]

Jun

24

Time management tip: keep your book on schedule each day by reviewing your writing goals for the next day

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Tuesday’s writing tip for authors
If you want to learn how to manage your time and complete your book on schedule, explore Donald Murray’s many books about writing, including A Writer Teaches Writing. Don was a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, a popular Boston Globe columnist, a passionate friend to all writers, and a member (emeritus) of Published [...]

Jun

17

Authors must avoid the “curse of perfection” during their daily writing sessions

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Tuesday’s writing tip for authors
Whether your goal is to write an article, a book, or a monthly newsletter, the secret to making the most of your short, daily writing sessions–scheduled with the help of a free online calendar, as previously described–is to cover as much ground as possible during your budgeted time. To do this, [...]

Jun

10

Writing tip: Use your mind mapping program’s Notes feature to start writing

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Tuesday’s writing tip for authors
Mind mapping software programs, like Mindjet’s MindManager, usually include a Notes tool. When selected, it opens a new pane, or writing area, associated with the currently-selected topic or subtopic. This space permits you to enter ideas in sentence or paragraph form. You can immediately describe your goals for the chapter, or [...]

Jun

3

Finding the time each day to write your book is both easy and free

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Tuesday’s writing tip for authors
Most successful writers agree that the best way to plan, write, promote, and profit from a book–and also avoid writer’s block–is to devote a small amount of time each day to writing. Don Murray, Pulitzer-prize winning columnist and author of over 30 books about writing, used to comment “20 minutes a [...]

May

27

Get a head start on writing your book, one paragraph at a time

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Tuesday’s writing tip for authors
During last week’s interview with Bob Burg, author of Endless Referrals and The Go-Giver, Published & Profitable friends and members heard Bob describe describe his deceptively simple way of geting started writing his book. After creating a table of contents, or list of chapters to be included in his book, Bob [...]

May

20

Before you start to write your book, list your 10 biggest ideas

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Tuesday’s writing tip for authors
One of the easiest ways to quickly make significant progress on your book is to make a list of the 10 most important ideas you want to communicate. You’ll find it far easier to create a table of contents based on the main ideas you want to communicate, than it is [...]

May

13

New Published & Profitable table of contents planning MindManager template helps authors plan and write their books faster

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Tuesday’s writing tip for authors
Published & Profitable members are invited to download my updated Table of Contents planning template intended for use with Mindjet’s MindManager mind mapping software. Mindjet’s MindManager is a software program that permits authors to display the contents of their books on a single screen, or printed on a single sheet of [...]

May

6

The importance of tracking your daily progress as you write your book

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Tuesday’s writing tip for authors
One of the easiest ways to get your book written on time is to commit to daily progress, a little at a time in short daily working sessions and–most important–track of your progress each day. The easiest way to track your progress is to use a Daily Progress Log, such as [...]

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