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William Keiper
All three are available on Amazon. Here is a link to Amazon for President....
My new book, Untethered Aging, will be out next month.
William
My new book, Untethered Aging, will be out next month.
William
William Keiper
Thank you for reaching out to me! I am sorry I no longer live in AZ and will not be able to appear at one of your seminars. All the best. William
William Keiper
Outline! What sequence will pull the reader through your messages to the point they must finish 'it,' whatever it is.
Create a deadline (even a soft one) for getting to a clear, well-articulated goal: a chapter outline, a chapter, your author bio, possible titles, a list of research/resources that may be helpful, a publisher's Q&A for submission, etc.
Write. Try not to edit as you go (let it flow). (Do as I say, not as I do!)
Talk to people about what you are doing and ask them what they think.
Review books that are in the same lane as yours. Use the ideas as jumping off points for you. Build on great ideas--make them your new idea.
Be flexible. Maybe a book turns out to just be an article. Fine. Maybe an outline turns into a book with a message different than you thought it would be.
There will be times when you must triage: an unforeseen gap in logic; a great chapter followed by one that really sucks. Different voices (but all yours). Focus on solving the problem (at least at first level), so you can move on.
Only stress when you are 'summit-ting' (the last mile to completion). Then, do whatever it takes to be complete with the project and show it to the world.
A mentor of mine told me, "You are not a real writer until you have a one star review that says, 'Awful, just awful. If I could've given it zero stars, I would have.'" Ouch!
Don't look back. Look forward. Keep creating.
Create a deadline (even a soft one) for getting to a clear, well-articulated goal: a chapter outline, a chapter, your author bio, possible titles, a list of research/resources that may be helpful, a publisher's Q&A for submission, etc.
Write. Try not to edit as you go (let it flow). (Do as I say, not as I do!)
Talk to people about what you are doing and ask them what they think.
Review books that are in the same lane as yours. Use the ideas as jumping off points for you. Build on great ideas--make them your new idea.
Be flexible. Maybe a book turns out to just be an article. Fine. Maybe an outline turns into a book with a message different than you thought it would be.
There will be times when you must triage: an unforeseen gap in logic; a great chapter followed by one that really sucks. Different voices (but all yours). Focus on solving the problem (at least at first level), so you can move on.
Only stress when you are 'summit-ting' (the last mile to completion). Then, do whatever it takes to be complete with the project and show it to the world.
A mentor of mine told me, "You are not a real writer until you have a one star review that says, 'Awful, just awful. If I could've given it zero stars, I would have.'" Ouch!
Don't look back. Look forward. Keep creating.
William Keiper
It is the ultimate personal challenge--something akin to climbing a mountain. I love the commitment, full engagement, coping with fear and uncertainty, the self-reliance and triage, and especially the relief when the summit has been reached.
William Keiper
I don't accept "writer's block." I don't see writing as a grind (except for the 'finishing it' aspect), so I need to have an energetic connection with the work at hand. If I don't--I conserve my energy until I do. When writing, I want to be in full alignment with what I am researching and writing so that I can give my best to it. If I am not in that place, I move away from that project for a while. I always have more than one writing concept or process I am working on--so I don't lose sleep if one is progressing more slowly than another.
William Keiper
The opening line of my latest book, Cyber Crisis - It's Personal Now, is absolutely true: "Your personal information will be hacked if it hasn't been already." My writing of Cyber Crisis was inspired by two things: First, I had my own scary, up-close-and-personal experience with cyber sewer dwellers. Second, the number of personal hacks has been growing exponentially and impacting millions of people. There are some simple things that can be done at the level of the individual to reduce the likelihood of personal harm as the result of being hacked, and I wanted to share them.
William Keiper
I started writing because I though it was important for the 70+ million baby boomers moving to and through the age of 65, to understand that the old paradigm of retirement was unavailable to a high percentage of them. At the same time, I wanted to express that adults (of every age) have a unique capacity (free will) permitting them to freely determine and control their actions. I felt this message was important and I could not find this kind of perspective in existing material. So my first book, Life Expectancy - It's Never Too Late to Change Your Game, was born. The inspiration for my subsequent books was derived from similar challenges requiring, in my opinion, a new form of self-reliance (The Power of Urgency - Playing to Win; and Cyber Crisis - It's Personal Now).
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