Top Ten Tips for Making Speedbo Work for You

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1.      EMBRACE THE COMMUNITY. A small group, setting shared (though individual goals) supporting each other, mentoring each other, being accountable to each other.

2.      THE PERFECT IS THE ENEMY OF THE PROGRESS. I think Spock might’ve said this first…or maybe it was Shakespeare. I looked it up. I’ve never heard of him. Also no one’s ever said THIS before. PROGRESS. Write. Anyone can use Speedbo anyway they want, but for many of us, in a Nano type mindset, we just write, forward march, get those words on paper.

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3.      IT IS THE ONLY MATH IN WRITING. Add it up. 1000 words a day, 30 days. 1000 x 30 = 30,000 this is over half a Love Inspired. It’s a LONG novella. It’s over a third of a trade paper length fiction, which mine are…they are 80,000. IN A MONTH. Pick other numbers, set them as the goal, do the math, YOU CAN NOT FAIL TO GET A BOOK WRITTEN. Maybe not the first month, but the second or third.

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4.      LEARN WHAT WORKS FOR YOU. Speedbo is a mount out of time. Fast writing, writing sprints, sustained forward progress, this is SPEEDBO. This is not you. We talk everyday here about how to write, but none of us knows what works for you. Trust your own methods. Yes, try other things. Yes, absolutely learn all you can. But what works for YOU, works for YOU. 

5.      FILL THAT PLASTIC CRATE WITH WATER. You’ve all heard the old saying. Get a plastic crate or tub out and put in three bowling balls. It’s full. Put in baseballs, they fill in all the empty spaces around the bowling balls and now the crate is full. Except...put in marbles and they roll in a the empty spaces around the balls. NOW the crate is full. And then pour in water.



Are you really filling empty minutes wisely? Are you really so busy you never read, never watch TV, never … whatever. THERE IS MORE TIME IN YOUR SCHEDULE THAN YOU KNOW.

6.      PLAN AHEAD FOR YOUR NON_WRITING LIFE. That means crock pot meals. Frozen pizza. Asking for help and accepting it when offered. Pet your kids, husband and cat good-bye. (okay let’s not get crazy. The cat may inspire you)

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7.      PLAN AHEAD FOR YOUR WRITING LIFE. I hope you did this. Cleared the deck, you had to turn in your goals. Did you plot beforehand? Did you clear out all the little writing chores, the blog posts, the small jobs, the old work you keep playing…is that pushed aside? Then you’re ready to WRITE. 

8.      GET OFF THE INTERNET. (that’s more a great idea than a real RULE. You need to answer email and like things on Facebook and check Seekerville right?) Oops there goes an hour of writing time every day. (at least)

9.      WHEN 30 DAYS ENDS, YOUR WRITING IS JUST BEGINNING!  This is a great way to form a habit. Write every day. Write every week day. Sit down and open that document and WRITE. IF you’ve done it for 30 days you can do it forever.

10.  YOUR BOOK ISN’T DONE WHEN YOUR BOOK IS DONE. In Speedbo, everyone does what they want to do, but if you truly embrace the speed writing then, at the end of Speedbo, you’ve got work to do. REVISIONS. Maybe we should have another month we call SpeedRev. You know what? I’m letting someone else name this one. It's a novella collection, you might have time to read something SHORT

If you want to, tell me your goals. If you've got your own tips, let's hear them. If you're NOT doing Speedbo, commit this month to entertaining the rest of us. I'm giving away a novella collection, you might have time to read something SHORT. Leave an ambitious sounding comment to get your name in the drawing for a signed copy of With This Ring? A Novella Collection of Proposals Gone Awry.