Book 2. Motivation, Commitment, and Planning: The Handy Little Book for Writers Series

This is Book 2 in this series, because of the importance of your motivation, your commitment and your planning to the outcome of your attempt to write. As was said in Book 1 of the series, thinking about what you want to do and planning how you will do it is vital to your success. A plan and an outline of your book as well as a summary of the proposed chapters before you start the first draft will most certainly help you. However, motivation, commitment, and planning as you continue are also greatly important. This book hopes to give you guides to each of those aspects. Just as writers write in different ways (and you must endeavour to find your own best way), so different things will spark interest in different readers of this book. Most of the inspirational information contained here comes from sources I have found when researching for the class I teach called "Let's Write a Book." These thoughts have helped the class members and I am happy to now be able to pass them on to other prospective book writers. I hope that everyone will find sparks of interest within these pages that will encourage motivation to not only begin to write, but to continue. If you are well motivated and have the required self-belief, I am sure you will become well aware of the need for making a personal commitment to your dream, as well as the obvious need to plan your time to work on it.

About the Author :
When Robbie McCauley retired early from a varied working life, which included the duties of Secretary to Members of Parliament, Researcher, Primary School Teacher, and Bank Manager, she began to take writing classes and discovered the joy of writing short stories. At the same time Robbie decided to study for the Bachelor of Arts degree she had always wanted. This was the start of a new world. She now has many degrees including a Masters in Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism and a Post Graduate Diploma in Writing. Her qualifications provide an excellent background for story writing. At present Robbie teaches a writing class called "Let's Write a Book" with the University of the Third Age (U3A) and is happy to have finally written her own first novel, The Eleventh Hour, which is planned to be Book 1 of a trilogy. Robbie lives in Australia, on Queensland's Sunshine Coast. She is divorced, has one lovely daughter, an excellent son-in-law, and three exciting grand children.