It starts with the dream, one that often starts early. You’re a child bookworm, you live inside your imagination, you start making up stories – and you dream, one day, that those stories will make it into print.
For some people, that dream fades as other dreams come along and take its place. But for some of us, the dream becomes an addiction. An obsession. We may spend years trying to make the dream come true: we practice, we learn, we try and try again.
We face continual challenges and we try to beat them all. Some are external, many are internal - and when it comes to those internal ones, we tend to think we’re alone, thinking and feeling the way we do.
But we’re not.
And here’s where I ask for your help, because for the past couple of years I’ve been working on a book on mindset for writers. At the start of the project I ran a survey which yielded incredibly useful answers and played a strong part in guiding the direction of the book. Now, as I get near to completing the draft, I’m running a new survey. I want to check I am on target with what you want to see in it and whether I’ve given the right proportion of space to certain issues, plus I need to check if there is any area I’ve missed.
Those who’ve already contributed – thank you! Your responses are invaluable. This book is a distillation of all I have learned personally, all the advice I’ve given during twenty years of being a writing coach, all the feedback I’ve had from those I’ve worked with.
By completing the survey you are, quite simply, helping me to help you – and others. The survey only takes a few minutes and it’s anonymous unless you wish to give your name.
The survey is here. Thank you so much in advance. Please share with other writers if you can – the more responses I get the more targeted my book can be!
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