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The Benefits of Journaling For Writers (& Everyone Else Too)

You’ve probably heard that you should be journaling, but who has time and what’s the big deal? If you want to be a professional writer and you don’t keep a journal, I highly suggest you start, and I will tell you why. 

Tony Robbins has a saying that I absolutely love. He says, “success leaves clues.” If you study the most successful business people, writers, speakers, etc., 99% of them keep a journal. So if you want to be successful, it would make sense to do what successful people do, right? So why don’t we keep journals?

I think when we say journal, people get a mental image of the preteen girl and her little pink, glitter-covered diary. When I speak of journaling, I am not talking about the scribblings of a prepubescent girl. I’m talking about serious journaling for entrepreneurs and writers.

It’s a well-known fact that journaling can help you during times of crisis and trauma. It helps remind you of good times when things have turned bad. Mental health professionals recommend journaling to their patients and see massive results. It only takes 15 minutes a day to change your life. Still, for the most part, the majority of people don’t journal.

Today I want to tell you how journaling can help you become a better writer.

1. Helps Focus Your Thoughts:

Writing in a journal helps you focus your thoughts. A lot of times, people get overwhelmed at the thought of trying to write a book, and they can’t overcome it, and the book never gets written. If you take 15 minutes a day to write in a journal, you’ll find your ideas Will flow easier, and you won’t struggle with writer’s block as much.

2. Keep Track Of Ideas:

I also use my journal to keep track of the new ideas that pop into my head. If you have followed me for a while, you know that I have a tendency towards ADHD, and my mind goes a million places at a time. I will get great ideas while I’m in the middle of an important assignment for my business. I would follow these ideas down the rabbit hole and never follow through and finish the first project. I found that by journaling my ideas, I can keep them in a safe place but not get distracted by them. I will go back through my journals periodically and implement the ideas that I have stored there.

I also like to keep my gratitude journal entries in my notebook. Some people will separate their gratitude journals, their food journals, their idea, journals, etc. I placed them all in one. If it helps you to separate them all out, then I encourage you to do so. The idea is to store the information in a safe place. 

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3. Helps Writers With Character Development:

Journaling also helps writers flesh out their characters. It helps you build your backstory without boring the readers. Too many writers discover their characters along with the reader. Unfortunately, this leads to the bad habit of information dumping. I always tell people to start their books with excitement and chaos. Then you can sprinkle in the backstory later on. If you don’t know your character well enough, you will dump all of this information onto your reader. Journaling helps you flesh out all of those details so you can write a well-rounded character without boring the reader with unnecessary backstory.

4. Improves Communication Skills:

Studies show daily journaling improves your communication skills. As a writer, improving your communication skills should be a top priority. It also helps you work through emotions and be more mindful.

5. Reduces Anxiety:

Mental health professionals encourage their patients to use journaling to help reduce anxiety about upcoming events in their lives. When you write in a journal, it also decreases your anxiety about writing a book. I know that sounds strange because you’re still writing the book. People get overwhelmed at the thought of writing a book but think of it this way. What if you wrote for 15 minutes a day about the topic you would like to see in a book?

If you wrote for 15 minutes a day every day for a year, you would have a book written already! Sure, It would need to be formatted into book form and edited properly, but you have written a book. It literally takes the pressure off to simply write in your notebook versus the thought of writing a book.

Conclusion:

These are just a few of the reasons why you should be journaling as a writer. If those aren’t enough for you, Google it, and I guarantee you you’ll find enough reasons to start writing your own journal. I will give you a link to the company that I buy my journals from, I am an affiliate of Amazon, so I will receive a small commission. Commission. But I would not recommend them if I didn’t use them myself.

Happy journaling!

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How To Find An Award-Winning Book Title (Live REPLAY)

A terrible title can destroy your book and keep you from reaching the world with your words. The title is like a reader’s first impression right behind the book cover. So, how do you come up with a title that will propel your book toward success?

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7 tips to write better dialogue

7 tips to write better dialogue

I don’t normally cover basic writing techniques and grammar topics. I am an author business coach. I work as a business strategist for authors to teach them how to make money with their writing. Although sometimes I get some specific questions about basic writing techniques so I thought I would go over the basics of writing dialogue.

 Your dialogue can either make or break your book.

The purpose of dialogue:

  • Helps develop your characters
  • Moves the plot along
  • Establishes the mood

Dialogue is NOT for:

  • Filling word counts
  • Dumping backstory
  • Creating needless small talk 
  • Describing the setting in obsessive detail

Well-written dialogue can push your reader on to the next chapter or it can cause them to close the book forever. Too many authors want to fill in the backstory with their dialogue and all this does is bore the reader with a bunch of useless details. Most of the time the reader will close the book and never finish it. To make matters worse, they won’t become a superfan and buy all of your subsequent books.

How do you use dialogue to entice your readers into buying your next book or your whole new series?

Here are 7 tips to write better dialogue. 

 

First of all, keep it brief. Is the message you’re trying to convey need dialogue? Or, can you write it without it? No one likes to read three pages of dialogue. 

Avoid small talk. If you think about it how many times do you talk for hours on end about the weather, the color of the person’s eyes, or your hairstyle? Now I know some girls will talk about their new haircut, but in general does your character need to ramble on for four pages about their new outfit? Or are the details you are including important to you but not necessarily important to the reader?

Forget The fluff! While it’s fun to include all of the details as an author you must remember the story must entice your reader. Your reader’s opinion is more important than your own. That is a hard pill to swallow for many new authors I meet. They want to write what they love and they don’t care what the reader thinks. That is a fine concept to have if you’re just writing as a hobby, but if you want to make an income as a writer you’re going to have to write what the reader wants to read.

Give each one of your characters a specific voice. Everyone speaks differently and so should your characters. Contrary to what your eighth-grade English teacher taught you every line of your dialogue does not need to be grammatically correct. I know that goes against the grain for all of those grammar Nazis out there but you must think about your reader. 

Is there a specific word or phrase they use often? Do they use slang excessively? Make sure your characters have their own unique style of speaking and you’ll find your readers are more interested in what they have to say. The important thing is to be consistent. If you have one character who uses slang at the beginning of the book make sure this character is still using slang by the end of it.

Show don’t tell. I know you’re probably tired of hearing this, but don’t give away everything in your dialogue. No one in life says exactly what they feel and everything that they feel at every moment in time. Is your character spewing out too much information? Is your dialogue too in-depth? Don’t give away the plotline with every piece of dialogue or you’ll lose the reader’s interest.

Minimize dialogue tags. Although your English teacher will cringe I encourage you to take out the dialogue tags whenever possible. If you read some of the best-sellers of the day you will find that they are very clear on who is speaking but they do not use he said, she said, etc. Can you go and take out the dialogue tags and the paragraphs still make sense? If so take them out.

Read your dialogue out loud. If you take the time to read your dialogue out loud you will recognize the parts of speech that are clumsy. You will recognize overused words and you will get tired of saying he said, she said, etc. Use actions and body language in place of dialogue tags whenever possible.

Let me give you an example. If a woman is in the library and she leans across the table and presses her lips towards the person’s ear, we know that she is going to whisper. You do not need to close out her dialogue with “she whispered.”

Here’s an example from Joel Quinn’s book F*ck the Details: Fewer Words. Sharper Stories. (If you don’t let the title offend you, he has a lot of good writing advice in this book.) 

I’m sure you do, she said sarcastically.

Vs

She rolled her eyes I’m sure you do

The second example shows us that she is speaking sarcastically by her body language and the author does not have to use the words she said sarcastically. Look through your writing and find ways that you can rewrite these dialogue tags or remove them.

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Keep in mind that every line of dialogue must serve a purpose. If it does not move the story forward develop your character or establish the mood then perhaps it needs to be removed.

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7 Ways Writers Can Clear Brain Fog

 7 Ways Writers Can Clear Brain Fog

Everyone has a little brain fog on occasion. But, if you’re regularly suffering from a serious case of brain fog, there are steps you can take. Brain fog can be frustrating and greatly limit your ability to finish your writing projects. 

There are steps you can take to reduce or even eliminate the problem. Try these tips and see just how clear-headed you can actually be. *First you must determine if it’s a medical issue or a creative-flow issue.* In other words, are you suffering from brain fog because of a medical issue such as Fibromyalgia, or are you stuck in your writing project because of writer’s block? Some of your habits could also be creating a foggy feeling when you sit down to write.

 

Practice these techniques to maximize your mental clarity and boost your productivity:

 

1. Exercise your mind, body, and imagination. Your brain and your body need a workout each day. Have you ever noticed that you feel better and think more clearly after a moderate bout of exercise? Plan some mental and physical exercise into your daily schedule. And, don’t forget to plan some creative exercise in your routine….reading! All of the best writers are also avid readers. By reading in your genre you will spark your creativity and plow through the mental fog.

    •     Mental exercise can be as simple as working on a few brain puzzles or math problems. Or, read a good book!
    •     Physical exercise doesn’t have to be demanding, but it can be helpful to push yourself enough that you’re breathing hard.

2.  Deal with stress. Stress is distracting. Stress also results in abnormal levels of hormones and neurotransmitters that can affect your thinking. Stress is hard on your body and your brain. Lower your stress levels if you want to do your best thinking. Plan quiet time into your daily routine. It’s the best thing you can do for your mental health.

3. Get a checkup. See your doctor if you’re having issues with brain fog and nothing else seems to be working. It might be that you have an underlying medical condition that’s contributing to your brain fog. You might also be taking medication that’s creating challenges for you.

4. Eat healthy food. Unhealthy food can leave you with brain fog. Also, there are foods that are often considered to be healthy that just might not sit well with your system. It’s important to notice how you feel after eating different foods and use that information to your benefit. Experiment and see what you discover.

  • Remember you are what you eat…literally. Your body is reproducing your muscles and tissues based on the nutrients you feed it. So are you building the body you want or the body you hate? 
  • It’s easier to write when you can think clearly and have taken care of yourself.

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5. Sleep the right number of hours for you. If you’ve ever missed out on a few hours of sleep, you know how compromised your ability to think clearly can be. A lack of sleep is a major cause of brain fog. Interestingly, many people also suffer from brain fog if they sleep too long. An hour or more of sleep beyond what you require can greatly reduce your alertness. It’s not easy to reach 100% alertness if you sleep too long. Even if you think you do just fine with 5-6 hours of sleep, try sleeping longer and see if it helps.

6. Avoid stimulants and depressants. Too much caffeine can leave your brain racing. The same goes for other stimulants as well. Stimulants can also interfere with your sleep. Obviously, depressants can leave you feeling groggy and cloud your thinking. It’s best to avoid both if you want to minimize brain fog.

7. Drink some water. One of the early signs of dehydration is brain fog. If you just can’t seem to concentrate or think clearly, have a glass of water and see if that helps. A tall glass of water every few hours isn’t a bad idea. 

If you find your brain fog is actually masking Writer’s Block check out my articles and videos on tips to overcome this common problem. Writer’s block doesn’t have to stop your progress if you have a plan in place to combat it. Happy Writing!

 

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Synova’s Self-Editing Tips

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Whether you are planning to publish traditionally or independently, you must edit your work. Some writers hire an editor to look over every social media post, book, and article they write. But what if you don’t have a full-time editor on your staff? Here are a few tips to help you clean up your work before you submit it. 

Read it aloud:

Try reading your piece out loud, and then you will notice places where you may stammer or trip over incorrect grammar or word choice. While this is a helpful tool to check your work, it isn’t perfect. Since you are the author, sometimes our minds read what we meant to say instead of reading it verbatim. If you can get someone else to read it out loud, it works even better.

Avoid Cliches:

We’ve all heard them, and it makes your work a little sloppy if you cannot come up with your own word choice. 

Avoid being too clever:

While we all know we shouldn’t use cliches, sometimes authors try to be too clever with their word choices, and the readers are left to stumble through. As an author, we must remember that the reader has a thousand distractions at any given moment. While you are busy trying to sound smart, the reader has to decide if he or she wants to keep reading. 

Don’t edit as you write:

If you try to edit as you write your first draft, you’ll find it nearly impossible to complete. Instead, let the words flow as they come to you. Then set the piece aside and let it cool for a bit before you jump right in and start editing. 

Print it out:

If you’re a child of the ’80s, you might find it easier to edit your work if you have a printed copy in front of you. While this works for a lot of people, it is only a suggestion. The important thing is to find what works for you.

Start in the chaos:

You always want to start your book with a powerful hook to hold the reader’s interest. For fiction writers, I suggest you start in the chaos and then fill in the back story later on in the book. Non-fiction writers need to find a way to hook the readers in their first paragraph. To give you an example from my career, I will tell you how I started Unorganized Crime. This book was about an ex-gangster from Chicago. Instead of starting the book when he was born and letting it read like a textbook, I chose to start the story when Sidney was 17-years-old and breaking out of prison. I then went back and added bits of his childhood throughout the book. 

Point of View:

Should you use only one? Should you use more than one? The answer will depend on who you ask. I suggest if you choose to use more than one point of view to at least keep each chapter in one POV. If you switch back and forth too much, it frustrates the reader, and a frustrated reader will not finish your book.

Don’t be afraid to cut out your favorite part:

When editing your work, you must be willing to cut your favorite character for the good of the story if need be.

Once you have your manuscript as clean as possible, then it’s time to consider finding an editing app and a professional editor to finish the job. I personally use Grammarly.com to clean up my work before sending it off to my editor. 

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What’s included:

  • Synova starts at the heart of the problem; your mindset. If you do not have a success mindset in place all the schemes, business plans, and marketing in the world won’t help you.

  • Synova dives into the purpose of your writing. Why do you want to write and who do you want to write for?

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4 Steps To Writing An Award-Winning Book Title:

4 Steps To Writing An Award-Winning Book Title:

A terrible title can destroy your book and keep you from reaching the world with your words. The title is like a reader’s first impression right behind the book cover. So, how do you come up with a title that will propel your book toward success?

I have a simple strategy that I teach the writers taking my course. Today I will share it with you all.

Step #1: Find the top five best-selling authors in your genre and study them.

What were the author’s last three book titles? Look for keywords that seem to resonate with the readers. While searching through these fifteen books you will notice patterns that might fit with your book. Keep in mind to take note of both the title and the subtitle of each book.

Step #2: KISS

Remember that old saying, “keep it simple sweetie?” I say “Keep it Short Sweetie.” Short book titles with no more than 3-5 words seem to work the best. You can make up the difference using a subtitle if necessary.

Step #3: Start a list of possible book titles

Create a list of possible titles and then compare them to the best-selling titles of your targeted authors. How do they compare? Are they longer or shorter? Did you use some of the same keywords?

Step #4: Test it

After you get your list down to two or three possible titles, send them out to a test group and see which title gets the best response.

I know this sounds strange, but don’t forget to make sure your title truly resonates with your book’s topic and purpose. Sometimes in the race to find the perfect, compelling title authors forget that their title must convey a message to the reader first and foremost.

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8 Ways a Book Will Help Grow Your Business

You’ve been told a thousand times that you need to write a book for your business. But you are a busy entrepreneur, and you don’t have time. Or perhaps you don’t make time because you don’t see the value in writing a book in the first place. Well, here are eight reasons why you need to write a book for your business.

Number one, a book will help define your brand in your audience’s eyes. If you look at Dean Graziosi before he wrote his book Millionaire Success Habits, very few people had heard of him outside the world of real estate investing. But after he wrote that book, he became a household name.

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Number two, a book will help you grow your platform. What is a platform anyway, and why do you need one question platform is all the different ways and means that you can get in front of your audience to sell your product. A book will open doors for speaking engagements for interviews for conferences, all sorts of ways to get you in front of your customer if you have a well-written book.

Number three, a book will help you generate leads for your business. While many people don’t have time to buy your course or to take your three-day seminar, they will buy a book, and that will help generate leads for your business in cases where you can’t get right in front of the person and talk to them and sell them your product.

A book will help you connect to influencers. In the case of Dean Graziosi, very few people had heard of him, but after his book became such a phenomenon worldwide, now he’s working with the likes of Tony Robbins. And it all came from him riding that bestselling book.

When you can say you are a published author, it establishes credibility. Every entrepreneur needs to establish credibility in their potential client’s eyes before selling to them. A book will do just that.

A book helps you educate your customers. Instead of sending all of your potential clients to a 3-day seminar to discuss all the features and products you have, why not send a book home with them? A book can teach them all they need to know about you and your business and your products, and they can do it in a better way than you could do yourself.

A book increases your visibility. When you have a big book launch, it generates buzz around you and your product and your company. It also gives you an excuse to go on a round of interviews. This kind of marketing keeps you in the public eye.

A book can help you promote your products and your services. What if you meet a potential client at the airport, but you don’t have time to stand there and give them the hour-long speech about everything your company has to offer. Perhaps you would choose to give them a business card, but how many business cards have you thrown away without even looking at them? Most people won’t throw away a book. They will at least look at it whether they read it from cover to cover or not. They will at least leaf through it and browse through it to see what you have to offer. These examples are just a few of the many reasons why you should write a book for your business. 

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How to Finish Your Book Despite the Distractions – For Mama Writers

This is something I am dealing with right now, and I know some of my fellow mama writers can relate. Writing a book is hard enough when you don’t have any distractions. But, how are you supposed to write when you’ve got monkeys, oh, I mean children, climbing the walls around you?

Here are 6 tips to help you overcome distractions and get your book written despite being a busy mom:

#1 As much as you are enjoying the extra sleep, set your alarm for a regular time each morning. Let your children sleep in while you work on your book.

#2 Schedule time each day where you can barricade yourself in your room and write for half an hour. It may be a struggle at first, but if you keep up with it the children will learn the routine. If Pavlov could train animals using conditioned reflex then your children can learn to give you space to work when needed. It’s not easy and it takes some time, but it depends on you!

#3 Give yourself some tough love. Create a daily discipline and make yourself stick to it. Don’t give yourself an excuse to back out or put off your writing time. Remember you can’t pour from an empty cup. Many mothers fall into the trap of giving of themselves to the point of their own detriment. We must remember that doing something for ourselves is necessary. You have to have something in your cup before you can pour out of it. If writing brings you joy, then you must write.

#4 Find yourself an accountability partner. This can be a friend that will keep you in check, it can be a fellow writer or even an author coach. The important thing is to find someone who will keep you on your toes. Don’t find someone who will accept all of your excuses. Find someone who cares enough to see through the B.S. and call you on it in a gentle but firm way. I’m not talking about finding a bully here either. You can take this to opposite extremes.

#5 Set a deadline. While it’s easy to procrastinate, if you set yourself a hard deadline you will find you’ll reach your goals. I happen to find it motivating to set my deadlines publicly, but other people find it so overwhelming that they don’t follow through. Either way, you must find what works for you and set those deadlines!

#6. Remember the reason why you wanted this in the first place. I’ve written many posts and made several videos about the power of finding your purpose. Basically, if you don’t have a strong enough reason for writing your book it will be easier to put it off. In my experience as an author coach, I work on mindset more than mechanics. I find the mindset to be the determining factor in a writer’s success. I have met so many grammar nazis and English majors that have never published a book, much less make six figures. Why? It doesn’t come down to education and ability. It comes down to mindset. Find your why and the way will follow. I think that was a quote but I’m not sure who came up with it first.

I hope these tips will help you finish your book. I know you are capable of becoming a published author. Now get back to writing!! 

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“But, I don’t have time to write”

Sure you do.

People spend an average of 2 hrs & 23 min on social media a day. That’s 35 days a year! That’s over a month.

The average American spends 4 & 1/2 hrs watching TV a day and that number is bumped up to 6 hrs if you include online videos.

The average commute is an hour.

Most people spend at least 5 hrs/week checking email. That equals 10.8 days a year.

How do you find time to write? You MAKE time to write.

Here are some tips to get you started.

* pre-plan your writing sessions
*dictate your story on your commute
*cut back on time-wasting activities
*break your book up into chunks and focus on one section at a time
*DON’T WAIT FOR IDEAL CONDITIONS!!!
*The magic word is “NO.” Tell some activities and people no.
*Reconnect with your why. WHY do you want to write the book in the first place?
*Keep a notebook with you at all times. This will give you a place to record all those creative ideas.

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5 Tips for the Beginning Writer:

Do you want to write a book, but you don’t know where to start? Here are five basic tips to help you reach your goal of becoming a published author.

#1 Write EVERY Day.
Start a daily writing habit. Writing daily will naturally sharpen your writing skills, it expands your vocabulary and clears out writers’ block.

“A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word on paper” – E.B. White, author of Charlotte’s Web

#2 Dive In – Be Scared Later
Don’t let fear keep you from reaching for your dreams. Set fear aside and be afraid later.

#3 KISS – Keep It Simple Sweetie
Don’t use 10 words if 5 will suffice.

#4 Show Don’t Tell
A book is a painting made with words.

#5 The Best Writing Serves The Reader; not the writer
Keep the reader in mind while you write. If you want to write cathartically then do so in a journal.

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If you enjoy this content don’t forget to sign up for Synova’s Simply Biz Newsletter and get your copy of her Free Guide: Overcoming Writer’s Block.

Join Synova’s Newsletter here

If you’d like even more help with your writing business, Synova has recently launched a course for aspiring writer’s.

Empowering Aspiring Writer’s:

This course will focus on helping aspiring writers develop their craft and show them how to build a business from their writing.

For more information check out Synova’s store page HERE

For more free tips about writing check out Synova’s Simply Biz Facebook Group

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