Let the games begin!

After writing 2 chapters of my book, I really felt like I was struggling to write it. When I write my blog posts or newsletter articles they just seem to flow. Luckily my fingers can keep up with my brain and I can type something like 70 words per minute. When I sent my 2 chapters to my Coach, she also could see it just wasn’t the right fit. It was a relief actually. I have switched the topic of my book and I’m even more excited to write this new book. The first 2 chapters have been written and there are a few more to go…well more than just a few! I am super excited.

Part of my homework was to go to a bookstore and take a look at some books. The purpose of this task is to get some inspiration, motivation and some ideas for book covers and book titles. Saturday morning I walked to the book store with my coffee in hand. It was a beautiful winter morning in Toronto which made my 30 minute walk very fun! I spent about an hour in the store in the business and the computer sections. I found a few hilarious book titles. I immediately took those books off the shelf and read them, just because I knew they’d be a fun read (this was in the business section, most computer book are borrrrrrrrring!) For every 1 interesting title there were about 45 boring titles. They were simple yet boring, unimaginative and generic. blah. The one book that really caught my eye was a book called “How to create kick ass ideas”. They could have called it “Thinking Creatively” or “How to create ideas”. Instead they chose a funny title and probably raised a few eyebrows!

Sunday I began writing for the new book idea. I played a game to get myself to type like mad. The game was to pretend that the book
was due that evening. So I wrote and wrote and I said “no” to as much non-book-writing things as possible. I still only got 2 chapters written but I will play that game again this weekend. Wouldn’t it be cool to write a book in just 3 days?

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Written by Sandra De Freitas

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