Identify Your Writing Mission And Succeed - Issue 34
June 5th, 2007 Subscribe To Our Feed
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This issue includes:
* Editorial: Your Mission And Goals
* Article: Be A Successful, Selling Freelance Writer: Identify Your Writing Mission And Succeed
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[Editorial] Your Mission And Goals
Hi - I hope you’re having a great writing week.
This week’s article discusses your writing mission. Although this sounds very airy fairy, thinking about your mission as a writer is vital. Your mission is WHY you write.
The beauty of being clear about your mission is that everything flows from that. Your business plan, your goals, and the writing you do. When you know what your mission is, you may achieve the various goals you set or not, but you’ll nevertheless be carrying out you mission, so in the truest sense, you can’t fail.
If you’ve ever spent months or years struggling towards a writing goal, achieved the goal, and then felt let down, chances are the goal wasn’t part of your mission as a writer. As I discuss in the article, my mission’s simple: to have fun. I hope this week’s article helps you to find your own mission.
Writers’ Web Publishing: Got An Idea? Create A Web Site (But Keep The Topic SECRET)
If you’re into Web publishing and creating your own money-making Web sites as many writers are, here’s a little tip: SHUSH!
I’ve been corresponding and chatting with writers who are following the techniques in my ebook package “Super-Fast M0ney-Making Web Sites For Writers: Join The Web-Publishing Bonanza”
Without exception, all have shared their sites and site ideas with me, and while I’m too busy with my own projects to snitch others’ ideas, it’s good to know that when it comes to Web site ideas and projects, silence is golden.
Whenever you come across a niche with high-paying keywords and little competition, SHUSH! Keep it strictly to yourself. Don’t tell me, or anyone else. 
The longer you can keep your golden niche a secret, the longer you’ll be collecting the cas$h for it.
Affectionately,
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** Discouraged Because Your Writing’s Not Selling? **
In today’s world, there are vast opportunities for writers. In the midst of all this dazzling plenty, some writers are stuck. Frankly, they don’t know how to sell themselves as writers - that is, how to promote their skills. Nor do they know how to sell the words they’ve written.
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* Article: Be A Successful, Selling Freelance Writer: Identify Your Writing Mission And Succeed
(c) 2007, Angela Booth
Freelance writing is highly competitive, especially in areas like magazines, genre novels, and non-fiction books. You can enter these writing areas and succeed, but you need to identify the competition, and you also must decide whether you really want to succeed in these areas. Basically, you need to identify your mission as a writer.
“Succeeding” in an area that you haven’t identified as part of your mission as a writer can be a disappointing distraction. You can succeed, but the success will feel like failure.
Here’s an example. Bill, a marketing guru, published a well-received non-fiction book on a business topic a couple of years ago. The book sold well, and Bill spend a year promoting it. He decided he loved writing, and was eager to write another book. So his publisher paid an advance for Bill to write a follow-up book on a similar topic.
Bill researched the second book for several months, and then realized that he was running out of money. He needed to get a job. The royalties from Book One were tiny, and he’d already spent the advance for Book Two. Worse, he didn’t want to write Book Two - after devoting almost four years to the business topic, he was bored.
He wanted to write - but not business books. When Bill thought about his mission as a writer, he realized that his mission was to entertain, not to inform. He’d become caught up in the excitement of having a book out, and promoting it, but he couldn’t face researching and writing another informative book. He got a day job and started work on a screenplay.
What’s Your Writing Mission?
We often think about our writing goals, but not often about our mission. Your mission as a writer is WHY you’re writing. Your writing goals develop out of your mission.
Your mission doesn’t have to be grandiose. Mine’s ultra-simple: it’s to have fun writing. Other writers’ primary mission is to make a high income writing, or to get a book on bestseller lists - your mission is completely up to you, and you never have to share it with anyone.
The benefit of knowing WHY you write, is that it acts as a guide - a compass. When you set goals, you know that you’ll get satisfaction from achieving the goals because they fulfil your mission. Bill’s mission wasn’t to write and inform, it was to entertain.
You Already Know What Your Mission Is - Discover It Today
The best way to discover your mission is by writing about it. Choose one of the sentences below, and start writing:
* “I write ______ because _________”
* “If I knew I would succeed, I’d write ________, because _____”
* “In five years, I want to be _______________”
Write as much as you like - just write whatever springs to mind.
By the time you’ve written 50 words or 200, you’ll know WHY you write: what your particular mission is as a writer. Knowing your mission will give you a great sense of security. You’ll find you’re less focused on do-or-die efforts to succeed at a particular goal.
Goals come and go, but when you know your mission, you know that even if you fail at a particular goal, you’ve nevertheless succeeded. And that makes all the difference.
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** You Can Become A Web Publisher Too: Become A Web Mogul **
For the past year, I’ve been receiving messages from writers who want to create their own Web sites. They’ve heard how much money there is in Web publishing, and want a piece of the action.
So, I’ve written a new ebook, “Super-Fast Money-Making Web Sites For Writers: Join The Web-Publishing Bonanza”
The ebook (and its fabulous bonus ebook) outlines step by step, with images, how to create Web MONEY-MAKING sites fast. What could YOU do with an extra $300 a day?
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