How to Write a Novel in 30 years
by Beth Mende Conny
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Attribution: © 2002-2012 Beth Mende Conny. Beth Mende Conny is the founder of WriteDirections.com and the author of more than four dozen books and collections.
Can you really write a novel in 30 days? Maybe, maybe not. I do know, however, that you can write a novel in 30 years. Here’s how:
- Spend the next 29 years talking about writing your novel.
- Wait for a guarantee that your book will be universally acclaimed, not to mention profitable.
- Determine ahead of time every plot twist, turn of a phrase and punctuation mark.
- Write and rewrite your first chapter until it is perfect. Once perfect, rewrite it.
- Wait for all the significant and insignificant people in your life to put your aspirations before theirs.
- Never share your work with anyone of discriminating taste.
- Read every book ever published on procrastination.
- Resolve all of the childhood issues that keep you paralyzed.
- Clean out your office once and for all.
- Ignore your dreams.
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Beth Mende Conny is the founder and president of WriteDirections.com. She has published more than four dozen books and collections, and helps individuals and businesses bring their projects to publication. She can be contacted at Beth@WriteDirections.com.