Why you must write your book

I promised my coachy genius in this week’s Impulses to help you get over inner critic POO POOing and write the book that’s inside you.

But first you may be asking, Who is Cynthia Morris to talk about writing a book? Some stats:

Reading books for 50 years. (Doesn’t qualify me around writing a book, but I do have unquenchable booklust. )

Wrote and published 8 books, including a novel.

Writing my 9th book now.

I’m a Certified Co-Active Professional Coach since 1999, focused on writing and creative process.

Former bookseller (Again, doesn’t qualify me about writing but gives me insider view to the book world.)

I’ve been coaching writers and creatives since 1999 = thousands of conversations to discover a) the path we all must hike when writing a book + b) how we all have to hike it in our own way.

Okay, here are a few of my best coaching inquiries to help you truly commit to your book writing. Give yourself a few minutes to answer these questions on your own. Respond in writing, without overthinking.

1. What’s important to you about your subject?
2. Why MUST you write about it NOW?
3. What if it doesn’t have to be a ‘book’? Consider it a body of work that could be used in many ways. (Written series, audio, coursework or a program…) Unhooking from the enormity of a ‘book’ can make it easier to write.
4. What will you set aside to make space to write your book? (No one seems to think about the need to make space.)

Are you in for the Impulse Writing Club?

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