Do you want to write 10,000 words in one day? Do you want to learn how to do that consistently and as part of your daily writing?
10,000 words per day can help you with that.
In the world of indie authors, the pressure is on more to write books faster and get them out into the world. With over 3000 books a day put out onto the Kindle platform alone, you need to keep up with demand. It is a little like treading water.
One way to keep up is to write faster. I consistently write 10,000 words per day without burning myself out and pushing myself to an author breakdown. I want to show you how to do the same.
In this book, I will teach you the skills I have used and developed over my writing career that enable me to write faster, better and more efficiently for my author career. It can work for you too.
My name is Mason Sabre. I have been writing since I was a small child and discovered I could have a million adventures at the stroke of my pencil (I wasn't allowed to use pen back then). I have written more stories than I could even publish, some of them I wouldn't ever put out, but I have had a blast writing them. I love writing, I love reading. I love to have a fictional adventure. When I am not doing that I am with my children or studying. I have a lifelong love of learning too.
I live in the North of England. It's a little chilly here and a little wet, but it is what I call home and where pretty much all of my stories are based.
Although I only write out of pure enjoyment, Mason Sabre has written a book that can be used by all aspiring writers. He has included many tips that will help writers improve upon the amount of words that they wish to write each day. There are exercises included that could, hopefully, help with blocks (yes we all know they exist), from where you write, to how you write, Mason is enabling writers to enjoy their work and the processes it takes to get that novel from the brain to the computer or notebook. This book is not just for newbies, but also for the more seasoned writer, who may have just lost his/her mojo along the way. You may not reach the "magical" 10,000 words, but with a little help from this book I'm sure the word count will increase.
I know that Mason Sabre is a prolific writer and often wondered how he does it. In this book, he shares his step-by-step instructions on how he reaches 10,000 words a day. While I'm not trying to hit that mark, I know that following his plan, I can hit my goal of 5K words a day. Thanks, Mr. Sabre.
I appreciated how things are broken down and exercises are assigned at the end of each chapter. The author made me feel that my idea of writing a book is not a far fetched idea if I'm willing to put in the time! So glad he's shared his knowledge!!
A lively engaging read, doesn't belabour the point and gets to the core of some real useful guidance regarding the nuts and bolts of storytelling as well as it's wider practice. Not just in the sense of putting the words together on the page but also in putting together the mindset that helps make it possible to begin with. I found it a useful stimulus to my own writing ambition.
In a consistent, logical way the process is broken down and laid out for the reader. The scope is widened out from the finer points of creativity itself and takes an interesting look at the creator, bringing up some vital points I had not hereto considered. It certainly made some of the difficulties I've had make sense in retrospect.
Overall, as a short, sweet shot of constructive motivation this really worked for me. There may be more expansive accounts out there with more detail but for what this needs to be, I think it's an easy recommendation.
This was headed for a much more middle-of-the-road review until I got to the chapter on dictation. The book starts out well, with the statement that not every process works for everyone, and those reading this book should take what words for them and leave the rest. Ten you get to the chapter on dictation, and it gives you a *hard* sell, literally saying typing makes you a typist while dictation makes you a real storyteller, and heavily inferring that if you're not willing to invest the time and money into dictation, you don't want to be a writer badly enough. It also includes grammar errors, which are a bad look for a book purporting to tell you how to write, and several instances of things like "I recommend this app - I think it's available on PC and Mac," where the author clearly chose not to do research which would have taken very little time.
I thought this one was going to be a bust for me, because it started off with a bunch of very basic tips that would be useful for someone just starting out but not someone who has had a writing habit established for years. But the further into it I got, the more useful it got. I especially liked the small concrete ideas the author gives, like printing your outline for the scene you're working on so you don't need to continually switch between windows, or writing down all the random questions you're tempted to Google and going over the list only after your writing session is done. I've pretty much got the hang of the big-picture stuff (finding time to write, outlining, and so on), but it's those little things that can really make a difference in a day's writing session.
I write and compose music. My songs are more like stories. MR SABRE, has written a few different formulas on putting together a book. The main job is to keep going forward and don't stop to fix your words. I loved learning that, if you try to edit while writing, it works different parts of your brain. Very interesting... This is a great book for beginners and advanced authors. I swear it'll inspire anyone who reads this book, author or not, to create a story. Highly recommend to everyone and anyone who has creativity .. VERY inspirational and easy to understand.
Informative & Helpful... but also kind of rudimentary
For newish authors who haven’t heard of sprints yet, or who have mostly been writing on their own: this book has a lot of tips about developing your writing habit!
Personally though, as someone who’s involved in a lot of writing groups, who already has a daily writing habit, and was already aware of the Pomodoro technique, writing sprints, and other tricks mentioned in this book, I would just say that none of this was groundbreaking, and all of it is already widely talked about within the Writing Community.
Still, it is inspirational to read about someone pumping out 10k words a day! That alone has been helpful to me.
Loved the conversational style of Mason's writing. I'm the type of writer who tends to self-edit as I go. On an average day, my output is between 500 and 1500 words. Then I go back and edit what I've written the day before, prior to continuing on with the story. This process is not working for me, and that is why I bought this book.
If you're a slow writer, you'll find tips to help you to write faster. I've written down the formulas for the story sketch, mini sprint and Pomodoro technique and plan to practice each. I also liked his suggestion about journaling. Highly recommended.
This is one of the best books that have put me in the right mood to get my words onto paper. Mason Sabre also has a Series called the Society Series full of shifters, happiness, thing that will have laughing, crying and totally ticked off.
There wasn't necessarily any new information that I took away from this book, but I was able to look at things I already knew in a different way. I found it helpful and I definitely recommend checking it out.
This book is great, an easy read, very accessable, will help someone starting out or help improve a more experienced writer. A thoughtful and pleasant read. 5 stars.
This book was very well written. Straight to the point (for the most part - there is a bit of a rambling problem) and tells the reader everything they needed to know. 4/5 Stars - A well written guide