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The Ultimate Authorship Planner: Your Comprehensive Guide to a Wildly Successful Year of Writing and Publishing
The Ultimate Authorship Planner is designed to be your all-in-one day planner and writing-career coach, helping you organize your writing life and get on a clear path to reach your goals. Finally, you'll have a single *non-dated* planner where you
✓ Track your daily and weekly word counts.
✓ Map out your writing and publishing plans for an entire year.
✓ Manage and track your monthly expenses so you're ready for tax season.
✓ Develop your editing checklist and evaluate potential editors for your manuscripts.
✓ Plan your social media marketing, book promotions, and advertising.
✓ Sketch out ideas for your author newsletter and track your open and click-through rates.
✓ Have the space and flexibility to plan your days and weeks according to your own unique lifestyle and schedule.
Are you ready to get organized in your writing life and empowered to reach your goals? Apply method to the madness of publishing with the Ultimate Authorship Planner.
① This planner is undated so you can begin anytime.
⚠ This planner is perfect-bound. For coil-bound, look this title up on LuLu.
✓ Track your daily and weekly word counts.
✓ Map out your writing and publishing plans for an entire year.
✓ Manage and track your monthly expenses so you're ready for tax season.
✓ Develop your editing checklist and evaluate potential editors for your manuscripts.
✓ Plan your social media marketing, book promotions, and advertising.
✓ Sketch out ideas for your author newsletter and track your open and click-through rates.
✓ Have the space and flexibility to plan your days and weeks according to your own unique lifestyle and schedule.
Are you ready to get organized in your writing life and empowered to reach your goals? Apply method to the madness of publishing with the Ultimate Authorship Planner.
① This planner is undated so you can begin anytime.
⚠ This planner is perfect-bound. For coil-bound, look this title up on LuLu.
375 pages, Paperback
Published July 15, 2018
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August 9, 2018
I received a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.
I would definitely recommend this planner for indie authors* of all experience levels, especially if you thrive on scheduling and planning and lists. For people who like a regimented plan with defined goals, this is the perfect launchpad for your next year of authorship.
This planner opens with some really great worksheets to help you plot out your upcoming year, in general terms at first, and then more concretely with time, which then leads into the monthly and weekly worksheets. One of my favorite parts is the early goal map, which I tore out to put on the wall behind my computer for motivation. After this, I especially like the monthly sheets, as they seemed to cover everything from goal dates to word count to personal health and well-being (exercise, water consumption, and your life priorities all getting mentions). These were followed by quarterly progress block charts, which allow you a visual way to show yourself what you've accomplished (it's so easy to think you've gotten nowhere, when in reality you've done a lot, and these help with that while also being fun).
Other favorite parts of this planner are its editing checklist, writing weakness list, and the story ideas section. I'm going to use the editing checklist to refine my revision process over time, smoothing out the path from draft one to querying. The weakness list is a great way to track the things you need to watch out for and counteract the most (for me, weaknesses are character voice and cluttered settings... being able to track these makes them easier to find and fix). The story ideas section is overall a better idea to compile ideas than writing them on whatever random paper is lying around; I will probably keep these pages by my bed for that reason, since I often get ideas from dreams.
Lastly, there are a lot of spectacular planning materials in regards to marketing, from planning launch campaigns to managing social media. This is one of the book's biggest strengths.
The only weaknesses in the book are so minor they can't affect my rating. On the reading list of planned "books to read," I'd like to see the author suggest reading in one's genre, and recent works, which can help them get a feel for the market (the lists are basically a free-for-all of your TBR list with no suggestions). I'd also like some of the inspirational and explanatory writing between worksheets to be more succinct and easy to digest, perhaps bulleted, but it's not the primary focus of the planner so it was no bother.
*Note: Although there is plenty of crossover for authors seeking traditional publication, this planner is geared more toward those looking to self-publish. It can be useful, however, to newer authors seeking traditional publication, if they look at the marketing sections more as platform-building, or for authors looking for good monthly and weekly planner sheets. As a professional editor, even I had something to learn from this--so really, it will have something for everyone.
I would definitely recommend this planner for indie authors* of all experience levels, especially if you thrive on scheduling and planning and lists. For people who like a regimented plan with defined goals, this is the perfect launchpad for your next year of authorship.
This planner opens with some really great worksheets to help you plot out your upcoming year, in general terms at first, and then more concretely with time, which then leads into the monthly and weekly worksheets. One of my favorite parts is the early goal map, which I tore out to put on the wall behind my computer for motivation. After this, I especially like the monthly sheets, as they seemed to cover everything from goal dates to word count to personal health and well-being (exercise, water consumption, and your life priorities all getting mentions). These were followed by quarterly progress block charts, which allow you a visual way to show yourself what you've accomplished (it's so easy to think you've gotten nowhere, when in reality you've done a lot, and these help with that while also being fun).
Other favorite parts of this planner are its editing checklist, writing weakness list, and the story ideas section. I'm going to use the editing checklist to refine my revision process over time, smoothing out the path from draft one to querying. The weakness list is a great way to track the things you need to watch out for and counteract the most (for me, weaknesses are character voice and cluttered settings... being able to track these makes them easier to find and fix). The story ideas section is overall a better idea to compile ideas than writing them on whatever random paper is lying around; I will probably keep these pages by my bed for that reason, since I often get ideas from dreams.
Lastly, there are a lot of spectacular planning materials in regards to marketing, from planning launch campaigns to managing social media. This is one of the book's biggest strengths.
The only weaknesses in the book are so minor they can't affect my rating. On the reading list of planned "books to read," I'd like to see the author suggest reading in one's genre, and recent works, which can help them get a feel for the market (the lists are basically a free-for-all of your TBR list with no suggestions). I'd also like some of the inspirational and explanatory writing between worksheets to be more succinct and easy to digest, perhaps bulleted, but it's not the primary focus of the planner so it was no bother.
*Note: Although there is plenty of crossover for authors seeking traditional publication, this planner is geared more toward those looking to self-publish. It can be useful, however, to newer authors seeking traditional publication, if they look at the marketing sections more as platform-building, or for authors looking for good monthly and weekly planner sheets. As a professional editor, even I had something to learn from this--so really, it will have something for everyone.
October 10, 2019
This is a great guide for structuring your writing and even if you kind of get lost it can guide you right back where you need to be great guide for writing whether it's a journal a short story or even a novel
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