- Are you looking for a way to get your book done faster?
This one tip, will help you write as many
as 2400 words in 60 minutes, that's probably
three times what you do now on average.
That's coming up, in a minute.
(rock music)
Hey, I'm Julie, the Book Broad, with Book Launchers.
A California based company that will help
you write, publish, and sell a fantastic book
that boosts your business and achieves your goals.
First a quick shout out to some of the fabulous
folks in the Book Launchers community,
visiting me on YouTube , on a regular basis,
Hello Kevin McGuire, Dell Roberts, WarriorChick,
Ron Neitzel, Thank you so much for supporting
my videos, sharing your wisdom, and wit,
and just being all around amazing folks to have around.
I appreciate you.
So now to the tip, on Tuesday night,
you might find me doing something,
that makes me feel like throwing up,
(gagging sound)
I'm talking about, doing running sprints.
Stairs and hill runs, with a couple
of my friends from CrossFit.
Often the total working time will
add up to less than 15 minutes, if you exclude
the warm up and cool down.
Not a lot of time invested, but the results
are gigantic for my fitness level,
calorie burn, and energy level.
Don't worry, you don't have to run
until you feel like throwing up, to write more.
I just applied the same approach to
writing my book, and then I tested it out
at our Book Launchers Writer's Retreat,
for the busy professional and entrepreneur,
who knows a non-fiction book, will boost their business
but they're having trouble carving out the time
to get it done.
The results were enormous, so I wanted to share
it with you, so you can do it to.
Here are the four steps.
Number one, disconnect, you can not be connected to the
internet, no phones, no wifi, you're not researching
anything, you are writing, I took the attendees phones away.
- Oh this is great, (gasp)
(exaggerated crying)
- It was pure panic when I did it,
but people at the retreat wrote as many
as 11,000 words in two days, and they improved
their book while they did it.
Disconnecting is critical.
Number two, plan ahead.
You need to know what you're going to write about.
So have a great outline, and even the first
sentence of where you're going to start.
That's really important.
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If you're having trouble writing your book,
or if your not sure you got a good idea,
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Number three, get a timer.
I like using this one on my phone,
I just swipe up, hit that little clock thing,
and boom, there's a timer, right there.
Now of course, I just said disconnect,
so this is on airplane mode, by the way.
Whatever timer you use, set it for 12 minutes,
when it starts, you do nothing but write,
no reading, no rewriting, no pausing,
you have to keep writing no matter what.
Imagine, that if you stop writing
for more than a few seconds, PacMan is coming
right behind your words to gobble them all up.
(video game beeps)
Number four, stop, when the timer goes off, period.
Take a five minute break,
standing up from your computer and then repeat,
If you do two of these sprints,
you need less than 30 minutes,
and if you can squeeze a few of these in every week,
you'll be able to write a few thousand words
in very little time.
When you add that to blog posts,
podcast interviews you get transcribed,
or presentation content, you already have,
you might just be a month or two away
from a first draft of your book.
But here's the super cool thing,
just like when you add sprinting or hill training
to your workout regime, you get
faster and fitter, overall.
By doing these intense focused sprints,
you're going to find that you train yourself
to write faster in everything you do.
You'll hammer out emails faster,
and the rest of your book writing time
will get more and more efficient.
You're welcome.
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(bass music)
- Oh yeah, just about to start writing my book,
what did, I need, I need that.
What if my goldfish, he hasn't been doing well,
what if he dies and nobody can can write me,
I won't get the call.