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Saturday, September 24, 2011

Have a vision and then a plan

Today, I turned the tv off. It was hard too. It is such a distraction, but I have to stay focused on marketing this book so I came up with a list of things I must do everyday. 1. Send out 10 YA review request daily. 2.Edit for at least two hours. 3.Blog daily. (Yayyyy, I can check that one off today's the to-do list) 4. Respond to reviewer e-mails as if my life depended on it. 5.Stay motivated!!!! The last one is the most important one of all; staying motivated. It's so easy to lose perspective. I was talking to a friend the other day about my book and she listened but at the end she laughed and said, "do you know how many wannabe writers there are out there?" I kind of understand where she's coming from, its like when my teenage daughter had aspirations to being on America's Next Top Model. I get it, but then I have to ask the motivating question; "Why not me?" I'm a pretty damn good writer and I have something to say, so "Why not me?"
Posted by Vici Howard at 4:55 PM

2 comments:

  1. mizmamSeptember 25, 2011 at 9:14 PM

    From one "wannabe" to another, the trick is to keep wanting it all the time. Not just when it's quiet and your goal is the only noise in your head; but wanting it in the midst of the noise and chaos of that is intent on distracting you from your goal. Use the quiet time to build a better you (kinda like the bionic woman:faster, stronger, better, able to leap tall buildings in single bound)! Enjoy your quiet LIKE GOLD! We're all "wannabEE's", the trick is to surround yourself with a group of "wannaYOUs". That group will "wannA" and push your success just as much as you do, just for the satisfaction of getting a message with a ;-D I've read the first book, just waiting for next one!

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  2. Vici HowardSeptember 25, 2011 at 9:52 PM

    Sounds like you been making some dreams come true too.

    Thanks for the encouraging words

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