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1. Introduction: Write Now RIGHT Now: So you want to write
faster. Of course you do. As authors, writing faster is basically our
bread and butter. If we can write faster, it means we can get
more books out. And it means we
can publish more. It means it means readers can
find our books more easily. Which means that they'll
find us. Which means that we can blow up and become
a huge world by. Yeah, that was like a lot, but that's where our minds are. My name is Keegan. I'm an
author and author coach. I've written over
50 books, guys, and I am so excited to teach you my method to writing faster. Now, writing faster is actually like unclogging
a sync drain. Okay. We want the water
to flow down easily, but sometimes we've got
these clogs in there, Sometimes it's not
what you're doing, it's what you're not doing. I have a list of the
most common clogs that just gets you gummed
up in your writing. I'm going to go through each one and explain how to remedy them. How to get your writing
flowing faster and smoother so that you are
putting out more work. Those readers can
find you, and yes, you can become that
worldwide sensation in case we haven't met before. Hi, my name is Keegan. I'm an author. As I mentioned, I have written over 50 books. It's crazy guys, I've
done this since 2018. If it doesn't tell you
that I'm writing fast, I don't know what is Literally, at one point, I wrote
four chapters daily. This wasn't just for a week, this was for months at a time. I was able to do this through the tips that I'm going
to be showing you guys. I hope that this helps
expediate your writing. I'm such a proponent
of authors and achieving your dreams of writing your books and getting
your name out there. I really hope that
this helps you guys. You can also find
a bunch of tips on my Tiktok at Keegan
Ashley Live. Of course. You can find all of my courses here which are geared
especially for writers. Just like you who's
ready to join me. Click on Launch this course. We are ready to go.
We are wearing to go, let's get this Turkey started.
2. Class Project: What Clogs Up Your Writing?: Okay, class project time. The class assignment is
super simple Today, guys. I'm just going to have
you think literally about where your writing
has been stopped up. What stops you up
in your writing? What makes you stop? Pause, not be able to
continue with your writing. Just type that in the box below. We're going to look at
a bunch of these and see how we can best move
through them quickly.
3. Clog #1: " I Don't Have Enough Time": Hey, how do you ready
to do this thing? The number one clog that I
see writers dealing with, especially when I'm
author coaching, is people saying that they
don't have enough time. Ditto, same. I feel you guys on
the one reality of life is that we'd all love
to be full time authors, but a lot of us are
doing this on the side. A lot of this is a hobby. This is something we have to do after we wash the
dishes and take care of the kids and vacuum the
floor and you name it. Sometimes we're
working multiple jobs and we're just trying to
fit in writing when we can. Of course, you hear these really well meaning
individuals who say, just wake up at 04:00
in the morning and set aside an hour to
work on your book. I'm sorry, can we can we
hold the phone or rewind? Who wants to wake up at
04:00 in the morning? I'm not even functioning then. If I had coffee, if I didn't
have coffee, it's no. Oftentimes we try to do
the same thing at night. It's just a catastrophe because we're exhausted and we just
don't get enough done. Insert my break method guy. This has completely
transformed the amount of writing that I'm able to
get done on any given day. Because whether we
notice it or not, we actually take mental
breaks throughout our day. We'll do one task and
then check our phone and check out the politics or
what's going on in town. We'll be doing that
second task and then we'll stop by
and check on Facebook or Tiktoks doing we can
utilize these breaks. This might just seem
like five to 15 minutes. Oh, no begi, like, it's just my mental break. But guys, if you begin to use your mental breaks effectively, if you begin to write during those five to 15 minutes that you are taking on a regular
basis throughout the day, you're going to see your words start popping off the page. The good thing is, if
you're a creative like me, it's like writing
rejuvenates us, right? This is better than a break
where you're just scrolling mindlessly through
Facebook because you're getting excited
about your dreams. Instead of reaching for that phone and looking
at the Facebook, open up a blank notes section or just text yourself,
begin to write, and you're going to notice that maybe depending on the
amount of time you have, you can get out to 50
to 300 words, okay? Every time you
stop yourself from death scrolling and you zero back in on your writing, you're going to add to that. Imagine even if
you only got out, say 100 words in those breaks. Say you have five
breaks during your day. Okay, That's 500 words
that you just wrote. Come on, who's proud of you? Yes. I mean, that's something
to feel good about. And you just did it using
the five to 15 minutes that you had already. We're using for phone time. High five freaking way to do it. You don't need the crutch of the excuse of I don't
have enough time. Because the reality is
if you try to set aside time like you're just
never going to find it. I hate to be the
bringer of bad news, but it's just we have to make time for our
dreams and our goals. We have to set aside those 5 minutes when we
can because they add up, they become something
special or we could lose it, you know, we could lose it just death scrolling
through Facebook. There's another day that we weren't working towards
our dreams, right? If you actually want
to commit to this and write faster,
utilize your brakes. It is going to change
your perspective on this and it might
just change your life.
4. Clog #2: "I Have Too Many Ideas!": What if the thing that's
been clogging you up is you have too many ideas? Yes. Believe it or not, having too many ideas can
actually clog you up. This is crazy, right? But I have dealt
with this firsthand. It's because you're
getting inspiration from so many different
places and wanting to go in so many different
directions that you have a problem
choosing which one. When you're sitting
down you're like, okay, which project
do I go with? Which story line? Which idea? And this can really
freeze you up quick because you start to
realize if I do this one, I don't get to do the other one. The thing with having this many projects swirling around in your brain is you often can't pick out which one has
the most potential. The first thing I want
you to do is write out all of your ideas
on a sheet of paper. Then underneath each one, jot down all of the smaller
ideas that you have. Say you're interested in
writing a dragon book like me. I want you to detail
underneath it where you see that
the plot goes. How many ideas do you
have regarding this? What are your points
if you do this, You're going to notice quick
that some of those ideas literally have one
bullet point under them. It's literally just a
thought and then you had a small little sub thought, and that's as much as
you have for that item. That's okay, because some of
your ideas will have long, ***gthy laundry lists
underneath them. They'll go into plot, they'll go into the specifics. And those are the ideas that
you want to start with. Push the other ones the side, you'll probably get more
inspiration for those later. Focus on the ones where you actually have
substantial meat. Okay, this is
qualifying your ideas. This is making
sure that you have enough information to
back them up creatively. These bigger media ones are the ones that you
want to dig into. These are the ones you can
start with, find a subject, find the thing that you've
been daydreaming about, that you know the plot
and the characters. Or maybe you just know more
than your one bullet line. Go with the one
where you know more. A second technique for
this is to do them all. If you are the type of
person who doesn't want to discriminate on
your ideas, I get it. I've been there and
I've been stuck and torn in that place of not being able to decide
which one is best. Simply did all of them and
just see which one sticks. Just be okay that some of
them will just go down the toilet and disappear and one of them will
rise to the top. This is just how it goes and you just completely picked your next creative project
just by doing that. Congratulations se
having so many ideas doesn't have to
be a scary thing. We can mix that clog, we can wipe it out. I'm so proud of you
today for showing up for this course and learning how to get your writing
moving faster. Let's get into the next one. You might be kind of
surprised what this is.
5. Clog #3: "I Have No Ideas!": Okay. So what if you're like Keegan? I have the opposite problem. And in that case, you're like, nope, nope, I have no idea. I just stare at that
blank page that cursors just flickering and I
don't know what to write. I'm completely stumped. And if this is you,
I just have to stop you just for a
brief second here. Because it's not that you
don't know what to write, it's that you're forgetting. That you're forgetting
what you want to write. I can basically hear you
through this camera. Okay? Like I just told you, I don't know what to write
like my brain is blank. Stop. Because we are creative. We are thinking
all the time about creativeness and what
we want to create. You're getting little pings all the time about little ideas. You were probably
out in that hike and you saw a bird and it just made you think
about what if they're transformed into
a crazy monster, like you are getting ideas. Whether you know
it or not, you saw a movie that inspired something. The main thing is to
not forget those ideas. Whenever you have that
little zinc moment where it hits you and you're just like, that would be cool. You need to stop and you
need to text yourself. Text yourself your ideas
so you don't forget it. Because when you're
there staring at that blank page
and it's super intimidating and you feel
like you want to fold in on yourself, I can
guarantee you. It's way easier to
not struggle with your brain on
hating yourself and feeling like I forgot
the best idea ever. Just open up your phone, go to that text thread and see your ideas. All right there. And pick the one that sounds the best to
you in the moment. This is how you're
going to start writing. Guys, this is the big step forward and if you get
stuck on that blank page, this is your ticket out. You can do this. We usually all have our phones on us 2047. And if I'm driving or something and I'm
sitting next to someone, I will literally
just ask them, like, my fiance I'll be like, hey, can you text that to me? And I'll be like sure. And
then I'll be like, okay. And then I have my idea
and we're ready to go. This is a spiral continuing
thing because as you write, you're going to continue
to get ideas and you're going to continue
to not forget them. Say also that you get
inspired through your dreams. This happens a lot to me. The minute I wake up, I'm texting myself that
dream, so I don't forget. This is how we work
on those ideas. It's not that you're
forgetting them. It's not that you're stupid or that you just can never
get through with the idea. No. It's that you might
just be a little bit forgetful and we can remedy
with a quick solution. Text, e mail yourself. You've got this. Another
thing you can do to get past this blank screen phobia is actually have a writing
competition with yourself. This might sound a little wonky, but it actually really works. Say that the first day
that you're writing, you finally muster up
the courage and you get out 300 words, okay? The day after that, when
you're trying to write again, you're staring at
that screen and you look at the beautiful
paragraph you have. And you're like, how
can I possibly do something even better than the paragraph that
I came up with? And your mind is
just blank, right? Instead of sitting in that spot, what you're going to do is
you're going to tell yourself, if I can write 301 words, today will be a success. Instead of psyching yourself
out that you have to write so many more pages
or this large amount, just do one more word. One more word then what
you wrote yesterday. You're going to start like if
you're competitive like me, you're going to jump right
in there and be like, I can do this. You're just going to tackle
that next paragraph. You might even write ten
more words and not just one. You might write 200 more words than you wrote and have 500 day. This adds up. You're motivating yourself
to just do that a little bit more and it makes all the
difference if you are stuck. This is the number one way to
push that hairball way out. This is the number
one way, sturge.
6. Clog #4: "I Get Halfway Through & Run Out of Plot!": Okay, let's talk about
another scenario. Let's say you're writing happily along down
that beautiful trail, and then all of a sudden you can't figure out what your
plot's going to be next. This clog is such an
easy one to fall into, especially for those authors who labeled themselves
as Panthers or those who identify with writing freely outside
of an outline, I am such of those
people, so I get it. When you don't have
that structure or that outline of where
the plot is going, sometimes you feel just as
twisted up as your characters. This can cause you to
think that you're in a bit of writer's block, right? Like the story just petered out. Where do I go next? The important part
here is not to panic. This happens all the time, especially for writers who are deep in the
weeds of their work. What we have to do is gain a new perspective on the story. If you're in this moment, you probably think the
first thing that I'm going to tell you
to do is right, wrong. I actually want you to put
down in the pen and paper, close that laptop
for just a second. Because if you are
stuck in this moment, it means that you haven't fully fleshed out where your
story is going next. This means that you need
to start to day dream a little bit without the pressure of having
to write it down. I want you to just go on a walk or go out in nature and
just think about your book. Just start brainstorming, okay? Just think of possible scenarios of how this could play
out for your character. Allow yourself a
little bit of play, a little bit of Wibble room. This will give you
room to create this new scene and this new twist that you're
taking your novel in, which is really exciting. Just let yourself play, think through the
possibilities and I swear there's going
to be one you like. The other thing that really
helps me when I'm in this brain fog blank
moment is I like to look at character motivations all the time in life,
we have motivations. Everyone has a motivation
for what they're doing. And if you look into your
character motivations, analyze why your
character is doing this. Analyze why they feel
that way and what they might do because
they feel that way. This is going to
help you shape out the arc of your plot
and figure out where things are going just naturally based on the characters
wants and needs. Do I think this is
really writer's block? No. The reason I say this is
I actually think that it is just poor planning
that sucks to here because I'm a panther and I have these moments all the time. But if you aren't
planning ahead naturally, you're going to run
into that dirt road that just leads into the weeds. You have to take
this second and just look and figure out how your book is going
to move forward. Usually this is actually where I do draw myself up an outline. Even though I'm a panther, I write out just a short outline to help me get back on track. I have the opportunity though, to slip in this quick
little note here, so I'm going to do it. Starting to write at
the very beginning of your writing session can be
a little bit intimidating. You might fall into this
blank spot and think that you're in this where
you need to plan more. Sometimes it's just that
you left off a boring spot. I do a lot of cliff hangers
on the ends of my chapters, and people think this
is for the readers. Like the readers need
to get into the story, you want them to flip
to the next chapter. This is all for me.
This is selfish. I end my chapters
on Cliff Hangers because the next day
when I pick it up, I want to feel directly in
the middle of that scene. I want to feel like the reader breathless, ready to write. I want to jump into that scene. How do I do that? I end my
writing in the middle of it. I'm talking smack a
illustration uno. Okay. Like he raised the sword over his head ready to bring
it down with vengeance. That's what I'm
talking about, like, you know, right in the
middle of the action. Then when I pick it up
the next day, I'm like, Holy, you know? Peep, peep. I need to finish this
scene right now. This is a great way to keep me motivated and on
point with writing. Because I just want
to jump in there and like finish the
movie scene in my head.
7. Clog #5: "I'm Not Feeling Inspired": Time to look at the next clog. And to be honest, I'm just going to give you
a little hug with this one. This clog has to do with
feeling uninspired. Hello? Uninspired. Hello?
I'm not feeling it today. I'm not feeling creative. Sometimes as authors, we think we always have to feel creative. We know that creativity
is innate in us, and we expect ourselves to
be on point all the time. When something feels weird, something feels off, and that's
because something is off. But it's not that
you're not writing, you're writing is off
because you are off. You are your writing, you are the life force
behind your creation. When you're writing is off, it's because something
inside you is off. It's time for me to ask you
and for you to ask yourself, how are you doing today? How are you feeling?
Even just that question just might make
you want to burst into tears or lay on
the couch or just say, I'm not doing okay today. If you ask yourself that
question and those are one of the answers you
aren't doing okay, and that's why you're
writing is suffering, not because you're lazy, not because you're uninspired or uncreative or
have writer's block. It's because you need to take a moment and focus on yourself. Because when ourselves
are doing the best, that's when our
creativity is flowing. That's when we're just this
waterfall of new ideas. But when we're tired or
stressed out or feeling it, we have to take
time for ourselves. Shut down the laptop, put away your notepad, and just give yourself this time to focus on you.
Where's your joy? What do you love to do?
What do you need right now? Is it a nap? Is it
a walk outside? Is it to play with your pet? Is it to just take
a bubble bath, watch your favorite movie, eat your favorite snack? We have to take care of
ourselves as creatives. We can't be going all the time, and there's nothing
wrong with you if you don't feel like
going all the time. Most people don't even do half
of what we do, it's a lot. Don't feel guilty. Take
this time for yourself. You might have to take a
little writers vacation. I don't mean go get a shack in the middle of
nowhere and write. What I mean is you
might have to take a vacation away from writing
just for a day or two. Don't make this an excuse, but use this as your time
to refresh yourself. Do something else. Work on
another creative project. Go visit family and
friends who support you. You can even write
something different. When I was having trouble
writing my fiction, I would just jump right
into my non fiction. Because when you can't
work on one project, sometimes you can
work on another one. I would do that. Do what
helps you and slow down. This is not a race. I know
we're trying to write faster. I know we're trying to
get so many books out. But we have to care
for, number one, we have to care for the
writer behind the written. Stop making this like a
chal***ge to yourself when you can just lovingly
look at yourself and realize I'm going
to get it done. I'm going for my
goals and my dreams. Taking a minute for
myself does not mean that I'm lazy or
not doing my best. I'm sending you guys a
hug through the camera. I hope you feel it.
And I hope that if you are in this
uninspired state and this clog that you can just do something to just
shuffle up your day. Give yourself a little
bit of a pat on the back so you can
care for yourself.
8. Clog #6: "I Get Caught Up In Nitpicking & Editing While I Write": This one is for my
red pen, happy folks. This is literally
for those people who have a hard time
leaving the writing, letting it be a first draft. Some of us are very
grammar oriented, sometimes it pickers, sometimes we want it to be perfect
the first go around. So you might be sitting there and you might be reading
over what you wrote. You might be killing
it. Yes, you hurt me. Right? You might be killing
not only your work, but also your motivation
by nitpicking yourself to death and correcting
grammar issues in the first draft. Stop it. Just put
down the red pen. Okay? Just let it go. If you are over editing or
editing while you're writing, this can just completely
hinder your writing ability. Because the entire time you're telling yourself it's
not good enough, my word choice could be better, my punctuation could be better, and you're stifling that beautiful creativity
you have inside of you. Instead, try thinking
with a more open mindset. Start thinking, I'm just
going to get it all down. I'm just going to
get my first draft out there and then
I'll have time to go through all the details because you will have that time. That time has its own
specific time for a reason. Because the first draft is
really that time where you're allowing yourself
to be in the movie. You're allowing yourself to see that scene in your head
or hear the dialogue, or however it comes to you. You're allowing yourself
to be immersed. What messes up immersion? Can I say that rock? What
messes up immersion? More than that
stinky little comma that you had just
had to put in there. Right now, it sounds funny, but a lot of authors
struggle with this. I just needed to put
a note in here that you can do all the editing
you want at the end, but let the first draft live. I'm going to tell you a story
about my first two novels. And don't worry, I'll keep
it short, you know how I am. But my first two novels, I edited the crap out of them. I took the life out of them. I wanted to be considered this professional author, right? I wanted my work to be up
there with the greats. I wanted people to see me as being competitive
in the market. I went through with that good old red pen and that grammar, just hard hitting it, scrub, scrubbed it till
it was raw In grammar. Perfect. Those examples could have been a flipping
grammar book. Do you know what?
When I read it, it sounded terrible, it sounded
stunted and not like me. They learned after
those first two books that my style is different. Our styles are
unique to ourselves, and our writing
style is our voice. It's our way of
conveying our message in the entire world of our books
through language, grammar. Yes, it has a beautiful
place when you're writing, but you can also break the rules and you can do it stylistically, and that is unique to you. Instead of picking your grammar and your sentence structure
apart right away, allow it to flow How
I developed my voice, which is very
unique as a writer. It's almost like poetry
and it also has like fragmented sentences for
emphasis and italicized words. That was because
I let myself have the freedom to play when
we start punctuating. When we start getting
crazy with the grammar, we are not allowing
ourselves to play. It's like someone letting a kid loose in the
Mcdonald's play area, right when they
used to have those huge like Burger King things. Please don't make me feel old, but it's like letting a kid loose in there and then
that mom is just like going up there like
marching up the slide with yelling some
commands or being like, wear your shoes Johnny or
pull up your pants Johnny or brush your hair Johnny like
being obnoxious about it. Let the kid play, you
know what I mean? Like let yourself play. Don't be that obnoxious
parent who's helicoptering. Let yourself play
this entire industry of publishing books
and writing books. It's about entertainment. I hate to break it to you, as serious as we all make it. It's about entertainment. It's about the joy
that you get in writing and the joy that the reader then feels
through the work. Don't take the joy out of it. Stop over analyzing your work before it even gets
off the ground. That's just adding
too many bricks to that plane. Okay? Can't fly. You've got this,
I believe in you. And I know that without
all that punctuation, without all those
perfect word choices, your work has something
to offer this world. It's time that you
realize that as well, and you just stop caring
about all the nitpicky stuff. You can do that
later. Give yourself the chance to fly first.
9. Clog #7: "I Compare My Work & Myself To Other Authors": Okay, hang on, hold on.
I see another clog. This one, This one
comparison is comparison, literally stopping
the words from flowing or making
them super stilted. Guys, we have so much
at our fingertips, we literally can see the
success of other authors. We can read so much work. We have libraries.
We have books. We have stuff on our phones. We have everything
at our fingertips when we're starting our
journey as an author, or even when we're in
smackdab in the middle of it. Comparison can be a thief, steals our joy, and honestly steals our ability
to write faster. But we're all readers here, so let's take an example, Stephen King and Tolkien. Now if you are not familiar, I'll explain why I just
said those two words. Two names rather Stephen King, Amazing, God of Horror
stories, right? Suspense thriller. Really short, easy to understand
sentences, hyping it up. Lots of tension, lots of drama, lots of action, crazy
twisting plot lines. Okay, Stephen King. Then we go to Tolkien. Different story here.
Tolkien epic novels, he wrote Lord of the Rings. I'm talking paragraphs of text, paragraphs of description
describing everything. So it's completely
immersive with really high fashion
flowing sentences. This is Ja***. Now imagine if Stephen King, who was literally sold, I don't know how many
books and probably made millions of dollars,
maybe even more than that. I feel really under
educated in this moment, but imagine him comparing
himself to Tolkien. Gosh, he would feel like my
sentence structure is crappy. I'm too fast paced
the description, like it's not even there
compared to his work. I'm no good at all. My
writing sucks. It's trash. No one will ever read this. Hold up, rewind, rewind. Isn't that what you're
saying to yourself? Aren't you looking
at these big names that have nothing
to do with you? Their style is 100%
different than yours, maybe their genre is different. Are you looking at them and
being like my work is crap? No one will read this. I'm going to fail as an author
before you even start. Friends comparison kills us and it makes us stop dreaming. What if Stephen King never
wrote and finished any of his novels because he wanted
to be Tolkien terrible. All of those fans, they wouldn't even know what
they were missing. That style of writing would
have never been popularized, Thriller, maybe the genre
wouldn't be as big right now. You have an impact, whether
you know it or not. Your style choice,
the way you write, the way you describe
everything that you're writing is personalized to you. That's what makes the
book that much more epic. When you're comparing
yourself to other people, you're diminishing this light. You're saying, I'm not good enough to be like
these other people. But listen, you're not
like these other people. That's for a reason
your work stands out. Stop thinking that it's a
bad thing to stand out. Start thinking that
as a good thing and start taking creative
license with your work. We are creatives, we create. Stop trying to be somebody else. Start just going with
the flow and having fun. Because that's when readers
want to read your stuff. They can feel the fun, they can feel it in the words, and it makes all the difference. If you're comparing yourself
and you're getting stuck, even if you're
comparing yourself to your friend who's a writer and she has all of these
followers on Instagram. Stop what you're doing and
your goals is worth something. You deserve to acknowledge it. Stop giving yourself
inward crap all the time. Having all those spiraling
thoughts appear. Just put the pen to paper. Be a kid. Write like a kid. That's one of the best
tips for writing fast. Go back to your kids self. What would they have written? In one of my books, one of
the most popular scenes that I have in the book has
actually horde of nerds, fantasy and sci fi nerds
that come through a portal and into my gamer
world, it's hilarious. Like they're fighting
with light sabers, they make ostriches. It's ridiculous. I let
my kids self go crazy. I've never written episodes
faster than I wrote those. They're the ones that the
readers love the most, the characters, they
remember the humor. Let yourself be free, Let it just go, you're
going to write faster.
10. Clog #8: "I'm Disappointed By The Lack of Readers & Support": Okay. Last clog,
which is convenient because I'm getting sweaty
sitting in this hot car. And you probably
need a drink by now. An alcoholic, of course, just getting drink
whatever you want. Okay? For this clog we're
going to be talking about when you might have your
writing already out there, and your friends and
family have read it. And they said, oh Keegan, it's great, but you're not seeing the readers
that you wanted. And you're feeling like your
work isn't getting traction. And you're just like,
is this good enough? Did I do we like, am I a good writer? And you get all up in your
head about it and you just can't seem to find the
piece to keep writing. Okay, Real life tip
from author to author. When you first start
out, it's hard. We just think that we're
going to write a book and immediately it's going to
be on the bestsellers list. And people are going
to flock to it. And they're going
to see how darn good it is and
they're just going to love it and support
us forever, okay? The hard news is that being an author is
literally a business. And I went to business
school, okay, college, running a business. It takes a while to
get off the ground. Just like any other business, Being an author takes a
while to get off the ground. I think this is
important to know, not to dampen your dreams. You should always
shoot for the stars. You should be putting
yourself in that 1% all the time shooting
for your dreams. I'm just saying it
because I think that we need to know about
realistic expectations. Because sometimes we get so
disappointed and we sit in that disappointment
and we let it faster because we thought it was
going to be different. But if we can learn what
it's actually going to be like and expect that slog, that slog up the mountain. We just know it's
like we're going on the hike and we know that
the mountaintop is real. We know that we're going to
see this beautiful vista. It's going to be the
most spectacular thing we've ever seen. We realize that it's on
a mountain, obviously. We have to do that
truck up, right? We're going to be
hungry and thirsty, and it's not going
to be pleasant. I'm probably going to be
breathing like a freight train. But we're going to
do it right because that vista is worth it. I'm just going to
put it out there. Your vista, selling tons
of books and people loving your work and getting fan e mails and signing
those books of the fares. That's a reality
you can get there, but you've got to put in the elbow grease and
you got to be okay when you're not seeing that vista as you're
traveling up the mountain. That can be really hard. I know how it feels
day after day, not getting the validation that you're looking for
from the outside world. I have been publishing
since 2018. I think that's like five
years at this point. Every day I work on my writing, every day I reach out
to other authors, I'm cheering them on.
They're cheering me on. We're community, There's
this slog up the mountain. But we know when we hit it big, like I had a bestseller. Okay. I wrote that Vampire
Girl. It's a best seller. That was an awesome moment for me to see people
enjoying my work. To see the copy is
going really fast, but I had to work to get there. We can't expect
that we're going to receive the accolades and all
the attention right away. We have to know that we're working towards something.
We are building it. You don't just like bringing a trailer and the whole
house comes down. It's not that house, It's a brick by brick
by brick house. That's where you're building
your career, your success. I have to be straight with you. This journey, you're going to have a lot of doubts
along the way. You're going to be looking in the mirror in the
morning and going, I don't know if I'm good, I don't know if my
work is good enough. And I'm going to stop
you right there. Because if you're
asking that question, it means you are good enough. If you're asking that question, it means you care to
make your work better, which means that every day you are working to
improve your craft. If you're having these doubts, it means that you are doing it. You're already on the track
towards your success. And who knows when
it comes right? Who knows what's
around the corner? Don't give up. Don't you
dare give up on yourself. I'm looking through this camera, I'm looking at you
and I'm telling you, you could write
that best seller, what you're working on right now could be your breakthrough. How do you know, how does that little voice
inside your head know that it's not going to be? Because I don't know about
you. But right now I'm convinced that the one I'm
working on is my breakthrough. We're not going to stop, are we? Right? We're not ever going to stop till we are at that
vista till we can see it. Yes. Family, friends,
great support. That's amazing that you have
that support. Cherish it. But in the meantime, while you're trekking
up that mountain, bring some snacks,
get some water. But keep going. Don't you dare give up. Keep going whether you're
writing ten words that day or 10,000 and
that's a good day. I want one of those days. But really I used to write
four chapters a day, guys, this can be done, you can move towards
your work fast. This is just my pet
to get you going. You had that drink. It's
about time to turn this off, but I'm going to wrap it
up here in a conclusion. Thank you so much for watching.
11. Conclusion: Write Now RIGHT Now: Congrats to you, My friend. You made it through this course. I'm super duper proud of you. In this class, we learned
how to write faster. We got rid of all
those stupid hairballs that have been clogging us up. And we are now ready
to write our story, to let it flow, and to have
a little bit of fun with it. I'm so proud of your progress. I hope that this has
helped you just open your eyes to a new way
of writing, more joyful, more playful style
that's going to help you write to the moon back and
produce things quickly, efficiently and just
have a bit more fun. My name is Kegan.
I'm going to be teaching a bunch of
new courses on here. Please go check them out. I'm a huge proponent of other writers and you
can also check out my books to support
me or check out my Tiktok for additional tips. I have so much content
up there for free. I hope this course
has helped you. I'm so glad that you
watched. Thank you. Thank you for your contribution towards this writing
world as you start your own journey or maybe continue it as you continue
to expand your craft. I'm proud of you. And if someone
has not said that today, say it to yourself. Have a great flipping
day, people. I'll sing in the next one.
Keegan Eichelman, Best-Selling Author, Artist & Dreamer
