BOOTCAMP FOR WRITERS

Boot camp for writers is NOT like boot camp for real soldiers. I want to stress this difference right now.

I, Drill Sergeant Mary, do not at any time, have permission to scream DROP AND GIVE ME TWENTY, MAGGOT!

Well, let me clarify, I suppose I can type anything I want in here, but what I don’t have is any expectation that you will obey without question.

So I’m going to use Boot Camp Day to URGE you, not order you.

What I want is for every person who signed up for SPEEDBO, if it is possible, to come out at the end with something FINISHED.

This is such a huge divide.

There are so many writers who do not FINISH anything. If you do not FINISH something then to me, you cannot call yourself a serious writer.

I want each of you to look at your work. We’ve been doing SPEEDBO since last Thursday and you’ve made plans and set goals.

But now, stop and just THINK, look at your body of work. ARE YOU FINISHING THINGS. Do you have a single finished book? Do you have four half/finished books? Do you have the first three chapters of fifteen books?

This Boot Camp is me, urging you, if you want to ever be a published author to FINISH.

I want to talk today about how many finished books you have on your computer. When I got my first book published I had TWENTY.

I'm scarier than I look!

You should be FINISHING. You should be stacking those books up. When you finish one, you start another, you do NOT spend four years revising and submitting and contesting a single finished book, or worse yet a single Unfinished book.

What we at Seekerville had in common when we first banded together was that we were all seriously pursuing publication. That is the bond that connects 13 very different women. We were entering contests together and aggressively writing and submitting and contesting and most of all FINISHING our books.

We want you wonderful Seekervillagers to hear from us that we are thrilled when one of you sells a book or finals in a contest or finishes one book and starts another.

Do this.

MARCH

SPEEDBO

FINISH SOMETHING.

Tell me how many finished books you’ve got on your computer. The answer should be at least ONE, if not, then ONE is your goal by the end of the month.

Give me a NUMBER

It can be as high as TWENTY, which is sort of like me screaming in your face DROP AND GIVE ME TWENTY, MAGGOT!

And if you’re not a writer that’s just fine. We love you all.

Those of you who are writers…..Give me a NUMBER
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