{"id":3240,"date":"2014-01-20T05:38:59","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T13:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/publishingblog\/?p=3240"},"modified":"2014-01-20T05:38:59","modified_gmt":"2014-01-20T13:38:59","slug":"how-to-find-your-writing-mojo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/publishingblog\/?p=3240","title":{"rendered":"How to Find Your Writing MoJo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m not getting very many correct answers to my question: What blogging milestone is coming up for the Matilija Press Publishing Blog? Here\u2019s a hint. I\u2019ve already reached the 1,000 blog mark.<\/p>\n<p>Remember the prizes are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Free manuscript evaluation by Patricia Fry<\/li>\n<li>A $5 Amazon gift certificate.<\/li>\n<li>A copy of \u201cPublish Your Book\u201d (print or Kindle)<\/li>\n<li>A copy of \u201cPromote Your Book\u201d (print or Kindle<\/li>\n<li>Both \u201cCatnapped\u201d and \u201cCat-Eye Witness\u201d for your Kindle. (Klepto Cat Mysteries)<\/li>\n<li>A print copy of \u201cCatnapped\u201d (A Klepto Cat Mystery)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(All books offered are by Patricia Fry. To learn more about me, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patriciafry.com\">http:\/\/www.patriciafry.com<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\">http:\/\/www.matilijapress.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>The first 6 people who guess correctly receive the above listed prizes and they can choose their prize in the order their email or comment with the correct answer is received. So email me directly or leave a comment here with your answer. <a href=\"mailto:PLFry620@yahoo.com\">PLFry620@yahoo.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I finished another book yesterday. I have my pre-publication readers checking it over and will send it to my proofer as soon as she returns my email. This is the fourth in my Klepto Cat Mystery series and I only started writing these in June of 2012. I guess you\u2019d consider me driven, focused, maybe obsessed\u2026 I am motivated.<\/p>\n<p>Motivation for Authors<\/p>\n<p>Hopeful authors come up to me often at writers\u2019 conferences and other activities and events that attract them and ask how they can make themselves sit down and write. They want to write their memoirs or a novel that\u2019s been rattling around in their heads for years. But they can\u2019t find the time or the inspiration to actually do it.<\/p>\n<p>I suggest that their level of motivation isn\u2019t strong enough to spur them on\u2014they don\u2019t have a passion for this project. In fact, most of these people are probably following their passion, which is taking them in a totally different direction. If they truly had a passion for writing a book, they\u2019d probably be doing it\u2014unless something else is getting in their way. What could that be?<\/p>\n<p>Are you a hopeful author? Do you want to write or finish a book and you just can\u2019t find that \u201cround tuit?\u201d Perhaps you can identify yourself among the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You are afraid of something\u2014failure maybe? Or success\u2026 Success can change a life to an even greater degree, sometimes, than failure can and most of us are not willing to rock the boat of our life.<\/li>\n<li>You don\u2019t think you deserve the pleasure you would derive from finally sitting down and writing.<\/li>\n<li>You genuinely don\u2019t have the time to spend at this period in your life. Look more carefully. Perhaps you simply don\u2019t want to make the sacrifices necessary to create the time to write\u2014get up an hour early every day and write or write after the children go to bed, give up clubbing on Friday and Saturday nights, stop watching those TV shows you\u2019ve become addicted to, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Forty years ago, I made the sacrifices and the commitment to become a full-time writer. Millions of other people have managed their sometimes complex lives so that they can write the book of their dreams. And if you are motivated by the right things, you can do it, too. If you\u2019re not motivated, you don\u2019t share our passion for this work, then maybe it is time you stop talking about writing a book. Perhaps it\u2019s something you will never do in this lifetime. And if that is discouraging and disappointing, then maybe that fact will spur you on to find your genuine motivation.<\/p>\n<p>As a first step, I suggest reading \u201cPublish Your Book, Proven Strategies and Resources for the Enterprising Author.\u201d Available at Amazon.com in print, Kindle and audio and at most other online and downtown bookstores, as well.<\/p>\n<p>Not only will this book help you to get off dead center and start the process of writing that book that\u2019s in your head or your heart, it will clearly show you the way to avoid the hundreds of costly and devastating mistakes new authors tend to make along their writing\/publishing journey.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m Patricia Fry and I\u2019m on your side.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m not getting very many correct answers to my question: What blogging milestone is coming up for the Matilija Press Publishing Blog? Here\u2019s a hint. 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