The importance of focus!
All through my corporate career I was taught the importance of focus. The need to focus on goals and what is important not just urgent.
I am writing a new thriller, which will be my third and frankly I am impatient to finish it and move on to my fourth and fifth books, since I recently read that for most authors it is the fifth book you write, which is most likely to become a best seller!
After my second book was published in March 2014 I became buried in marketing for six months, in particular trying to build my social media footprint and though I appreciate its importance I can’t say it’s much fun, so I am now very focused on writing and everything else will have to fit around my writing rather than the other way around.
At the beginning of this year I rather ambitiously set 100 books as my reading challenge for the year. I am currently at 78 books read and likely to fall about 10 books short by the end of the year but I still think I have done well. We all know the quote by Stephen King, “If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write…”
Looking forwards towards next year my focus for the first six months is going to be on publishing my third and fourth books. I will also continue to read a great deal as it inspires me in my writing and improves my writing skills. My social media footprint can shrink a size or two because while quite important it is not as important as writing.
My blog is just a cautionary note to not be swept along by the urgency of everything but to take time to set goals and focus on them above everything else.
I am writing a new thriller, which will be my third and frankly I am impatient to finish it and move on to my fourth and fifth books, since I recently read that for most authors it is the fifth book you write, which is most likely to become a best seller!
After my second book was published in March 2014 I became buried in marketing for six months, in particular trying to build my social media footprint and though I appreciate its importance I can’t say it’s much fun, so I am now very focused on writing and everything else will have to fit around my writing rather than the other way around.
At the beginning of this year I rather ambitiously set 100 books as my reading challenge for the year. I am currently at 78 books read and likely to fall about 10 books short by the end of the year but I still think I have done well. We all know the quote by Stephen King, “If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write…”
Looking forwards towards next year my focus for the first six months is going to be on publishing my third and fourth books. I will also continue to read a great deal as it inspires me in my writing and improves my writing skills. My social media footprint can shrink a size or two because while quite important it is not as important as writing.
My blog is just a cautionary note to not be swept along by the urgency of everything but to take time to set goals and focus on them above everything else.
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