Came a post on Reddit that said the following:
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“Here´s the thing. I´ve been trying to write for a while now. I love writing. I love to create places and characters and outlines. I´ve had a story in my mind for years and I have it all outlined and planned. But when I have to sit down and actully write it I lose all motivation, inspiration and fun. I dont know. Am I doing something wrong? Does this happen to you as well? Could use some advice.”
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My answer: you don’t "love writing”.
You love ideating stories and thinking about writing.
The solution?
Learn how to actually love the writing process. With that I mean the entire process. Ideating, first drafting, experimenting, going back to clean up your mess of a first draft, writing a second, and a third draft, editing everything, making sure the timeline fits and there are no plot holes, fixing the dialogue, and ultimately getting your writing ready to be published (or posted).
Every one of these can be further divided into their own steps—if you’d like to play the complex game that is.
Or you can look at the source of everything, that is, enjoyment as a whole, and why we, as people, find one thing more fun and enjoyable than another.
Hint: there are only two ingredients to a “fun activity” no matter what it is, who it’s for, or how to do it.
Playing chess, writing a book, going skydiving, painting, poetry, playing a video game,… it doesn’t matter. Every single one of these shares the same two foundational ingredients to what makes something fun.
If those two ingredients are present the activity becomes fun. If they’re missing from the activity (including those mentioned above) you’ll no longer enjoy it.
The trick lies in knowing you can artificially implement these ingredients into everything you do, essentially turning everything into something fun and enjoyable.
As to what these ingredients are, and how to apply them to learning to love the writing process, no matter what kind of writing you do, how long you’ve already been writing, or who/what you’re writing for (business or professional, fiction, non-fiction, or persuasive) and especially if you want to learn how you can write more than you do now, better than you do now, and faster than you do now (so you’ll also earn more money than you do now) then I’ll have to refer you to my latest self-published book titled:
“The Art of Loving to Write“.
Available now on Amazon all over the world in both paperback and Kindle format.
It’s an incredibly short, yet powerful, read. And one so inexpensive (as opposed to some of my other products) everyone can afford it.
No matter who you are or what market you’re in. If you do any type of writing in your life (professional or personal), I can guarantee this book can and will be useful to you—so useful in fact that you’re likely to see immediate improvements the same day after you finish reading the book.
Which, good news, the book is short enough for you to finish it in one sitting if that’s what you like
Plus, I’m giving away an extremely valuable bonus as a digital PDF explaining How I plan to grow and monetize my writing-based publisher-like business empire (without focusing on social media) which I’ll mail directly to you after you:
Buy The Art of Loving to Write before Friday, July 19th at midnight CET
Send me the Amazon receipt before that same deadline
You’ll find more info about the bonus in the P.S. below.
That said, here’s the link to get your hands on The Art of Loving to Write: https://alexvandromme.com/loving
P.S.: Regarding the bonus behind-the-scenes marketing plan I'll send you if you buy AND send me your Amazon receipt before the deadline of Friday, July 19th at midnight CET.
I call it "Building an Entertainment Business Universe".
It's the entirety of my marketing plan, what I've done and what I'll be doing for the next coming years, explained as best I can and with lots of examples, reasons why, and arguments (both for and against) as to why I'm doing what I'm doing and how it might benefit you as well.
If you buy The Art of Loving to Write (print or Kindle) and send me your receipt by the deadline you'll get it entirely for free. I won't come up with an imaginary price or value. I've never sold this information before and I likely never will.
All I can say is that it's worth its weight in gold (multiple times over). In a way, it's THE report showing you everything I've done, am doing, and will do (as well as why and how).
Here are just some of the things you can expect to learn from this bonus:
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The secret psychological reason why businesses such as Disney, Marvel Comics, and Dungeons & Dragons grew into such household names and how I plan on using the same framework to grow my very own entertainment empire.
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Why you’re in the entertainment business whether you like it or not (and how to turn this into your advantage).
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A step-by-step guide to each of the 5 phases I’ll go through from start to finish throughout the lifetime of my business to go from a no-name nobody to a name so big nobody in your industry can ignore anymore.
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How to never struggle with freeloaders who leech off your time, energy, and resources and never plan to buy anything ever again.
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Why so many people mess up at the very start of their business plan (yet they often don’t realize it until many years later—not to mention the amount of wasted time and money!)
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The 2 best, most effective, and scalable ways to generate high-quality traffic filled with people who’ve already proven to be suitable customers who are eager and ready to buy
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Exactly what to sell (and who to sell it to) in each stage of the game regardless of what market you’re in (get this wrong and you’ll never sell anything no matter the quality of your offers!)
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How to use (and re-use) all your writing continuously for years to come so you never waste a single word you’ve ever written and every additional word you write only increases the amount of profit you’ll generate.
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The “DNA-String” method you can use to give a unified feeling to everything you create without diminishing the uniqueness of your offers by doing something you never expected any business or entrepreneur to do, yet it works like magic and it can turn even the most basic and average guy into someone who’s always top of mind in everyone’s head (I only know of 3 people who did this and they each became highly successful individuals because of it).
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The first two questions every independent business owner or creative should ask them if they want to build a reliable and sustainable source of revenue (which you can use to further develop all of your other business endeavors).
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Why every game plan shorter than 5 years (sometimes even 10 years) will miss out on 80% of the results you’re otherwise able to achieve (yet you’re probably already doing most of the things you need to, only without seeing the vast results of your labor).
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How to never again have to think about any of the design aspects of your offers (hint: your very own content decides the design, you just aren’t looking hard enough).
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How to all but eliminate your competition entirely by doing something so drastically different (yet something that’s at the core of my marketing plan) that nobody can get even close to the amount of authority and credibility you’ll develop).
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Why you should think of yourself as a publisher first and what it means for your business and everything else you think about, create, and sell.
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And much, much more…
One last time, to get the "Building an Entertainment Business Universe" bonus (which is a digital PDF) you must (1) buy The Art of Loving to Write on Amazon (print or Kindle) before Friday, July 19th at midnight CET AND (2) send me your receipt to show proof of purchase (also before the deadline).
Failure to do both by the deadline will result in you not receiving said bonus.
No excuses.
Anyway.
Here's the link to buy The Art of Loving to Write: https://alexvandromme.com/loving