You've heard the saying, "You are what you eat?" Consider this too, "You are what you think."

Much of what we accomplish in life starts with a mindset. You can't lose weight until you put your mind too it. You can't train for a marathon or knit a sweater with out putting your mind to it. You have to think it through first and then take the first step.

Wanting to write a book is that first step. Sitting down and doing it, the next step. There is a long list of what to do next, but at what point then are you not writing for a hobby? When you say to yourself and others, "I'm an author."

I often refer back to my black belt training when discussing the path to being a published author. At white belt you begin to learn what will be your mantras as you climb the ranks to black belt. And as you say them in class and you learn another with each belt they are are emphasized with, "Black Belt Excellence." From class one, you are instilled with knowing you're a black belt...in training.

You may only have a few chapters in your very first attempt at a manuscript, but when someone says, "What do you do," and you answer, "I'm an author," right away you are giving yourself that credibility of being just that. It's going to pique their interest and have them asking questions. (BAM your first pitch!) It's going to have you wanting to carve out that "serious" time to write. If asked and you reply, "Oh, I'm thinking about writing a book, but..." You're going to end up with people saying, "That's hard," "I tried that once," "My sister's friend's brother's roommate tried to write a book once." 

Published or not, you have to believe in the outcome of your journey enough to breathe it in and become it. Luke Skywalker was Jedi minded long before he met Yoda.

If your heart is in it and your mind is willing, rise to the challenge. 

"I am an author!"

Say it out loud and live it!


Bestselling Author Bernadette Marie is known for building families readers want to be part of. Her series The Keller Family has graced bestseller charts since its release in 2011, along with her other series and single title books. The married mother of five sons promises Happily Ever After always…and says she can write it, because she lives it. 

When not writing, Bernadette Marie is shuffling her sons to their many events—mostly hockey—and enjoying the beautiful views of the Colorado Rocky Mountains from her front step. She is also an accomplished martial artist with a second degree black belt in Tang Soo Do.

A chronic entrepreneur, Bernadette Marie opened her own publishing house in 2011, 5 Prince Publishing, so that she could publish the books she liked to write and help make the dreams of other aspiring authors come true too. Bernadette Marie is also the CEO of Illumination Author Events.

Check out what authors Jessica Dall and Bernadette Marie are talking about over on their blogs!

Jessica Dall: "Do the Twist" http://jessicadall.com/2015/04/22/do-the-twist/

Bernadette Marie: 
http://authorbernadettemarie.blogspot.com

An old joke asks, “How do you eat an elephant?”. The answer is “one mouthful at a time.”

If someone asked me, “How do you write a novel?” I’d give them a similar response. My answer would be, “700 words at a time.”

One of the most important aspects to being a writer is to write. In my case, once I have worked out the outline of my novel, I aim to contribute 700 words each and every day. Maintaining this rate over a period of a week will see around 5,000 words generated. Maintain this for ten weeks and 50,000 words will have been created. If the average novel is 50,000 to 100,000 words, this means you can have a first draft ready anywhere between ten and twenty weeks after completing a detailed plan.

Of course, writing seven days a week is not easy. Even by maintaining this rate for 5 days a week, a first draft could be completed in fifteen to thirty weeks.

700 words a day is not an impossible task, even for someone with a full time job and family responsibilities. To achieve this may require anywhere between thirty and ninety minutes a day. This could be achieved by waking up early, using your lunch break or foregoing a television show.

Of course, this approach assumes you’ve been able to develop a detailed plan and you maintain consistency in your writing. More about both of these topics later.

The other really important message is that completion of a first draft does not equate to having a novel of publishable standard. That too is a topic for another day.

For now, and assuming you do want to write a novel, think about whether you could achieve a production rate of 700 words per day.

Originally Posted on February 1, 2012 by Pete Abela
Permission Granted to repost April 20, 2015

 

5 Prince Publishing authors always have something to say! Find out what the author of the bestselling Stutter Creek series is talking about today!

A Bit of Lilac Lane   http://www.annswann.blogspot.com/2015/04/a-bit-of-lilac-lane.html

Our authors always have something to say! Check out what Tonya Lampley, author of Indiscretion, is talking about on her blog:

THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNIVERSE, blog by Tonya Lampley
https://tonyalampley.wordpress.com/2015/04/08/the-language-of-the-universe/

Available from 5 Prince Publishing www.5princebooks.com  books@5princebooks.com
Genre: Fiction, General, African American, Mystery & Detective, Romance
Release Date: April 2, 2015
Digital ISBN 13: 978-1-63112-102-9 ISBN 10:1631121022
PRINT ISNB 13: 978-1-63112-103-6 ISBN 10:1631121030
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Fatal Obsession
She finds out her nightmares are actually memories of her past life… the life of a murderer. Could she truly be the deranged Ellsa Jabari who’d almost added her own sister Ellie to the list of people she’s killed? Amnesia can be a real bitch!

Bio for Christina OW:

I’m the last of my mom’s three girls and I’m also a twin (she is an author too). It’s a lot of fun playing tricks on people with my twin sister. We did so a lot when we were younger but not so much now. We were raised by my mother and we owe her so much and try to make her proud every single day.

I would rather curl up on the couch with a book than go out which also means I’m not into the night life. My pajamas are my best friend because they are so comfortable and only dress up when I go out if there is a good chance I’ll meet a hot guy!

 Author Contact Info:
Facebook: Christina OW
Twitter: @christina_ow
Blog: http://www.goodreads.com/ChristinaOW
http://www.christinaow.wordpress.com  
http://www.all-you-can-read-club.com/christinaow.htm

Excerpt from Fatal Obsession: 

Available from 5 Prince Publishing www.5princebooks.com  books@5princebooks.com

Genre: Fiction, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Fantasy, Historical

Release Date: April 2, 2015

Digital ISBN-13; 978-1-63112-106-7 ISBN 10:1631121065

Print ISBN- 13; 978-1-63112-107-4 ISBN:10 :1631121073

Purchase link : http://www.5princebooks.com/buy-links.html

 


The Doom of Undal

The Dragon Court has ruled Tiamut uncontested for millennia, bringing knowledge and prosperity to all. 

Yet all is not as it seems---far to the West in the land of Undal, mightiest of the nations, the Royal Queen and her children are struck with a mysterious illness and perish. Was the Dragon Court responsible?  Or had the Queen had been experimenting with dark magic?

Her grieving son, trained in the dark arts by the goddess Eris herself, swears vengeance.  When he defies the Dragon Court and they rescind their blessing on his royal house, he must turn to his mother's experiments and ancient blood rituals to achieve his aims.  In his quest for truth he will become the greatest threat Tiamut has ever known.  

With details pulled directly from Plato (yes, THAT Plato), The Emerald Tablets of Thoth, Sumerian and Egyptian mythology, The Doom of Undal tells the story of the Fall of Atlantis.