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How to Get Excited About Your Book Again · The Daily Writer

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  SPEAKER_00: Hey my friend, welcome to the Daily Writer, where we help writers become authors of their own lives.
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  SPEAKER_00: A couple of weeks ago, I was working on the umpteenth round of edits for my upcoming book, which is called The Ghost Powered Author: Save Time, Build Authority, and Amplify Your Voice with the Power of a Ghostwritten Book.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, you're not supposed to admit this as a writer, but I was done with this book on that particular day.
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  SPEAKER_00: I was really, really tired of working on it.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's been in the works for months, and I was so emotionally ready to move on to the next thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, maybe you have felt the same way about one of your own books or about some other large writing project.
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  SPEAKER_00: You've lost a spark and you don't feel motivated to keep working on it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, when I'm sick of working on something, here are three questions that I ask myself.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I think these will be helpful for you too if you've lost that love and feeling about your book.
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  SPEAKER_00: Number one, why was I excited about this project in the first place?
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  SPEAKER_00: Number two, what good things will happen because of this project?
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  SPEAKER_00: And number three, who am I becoming in the process of finishing this project?
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  SPEAKER_00: Honestly, any time that I sit with these questions, I immediately get more excited about the project again.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that was certainly the case with my ghostwriting book.
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  SPEAKER_00: When I look back at these questions, okay, I'll go through these quickly again.
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  SPEAKER_00: Why was I excited about this project in the first place?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, when I revisited that question, I was I became excited again because I thought, wow, this book is designed to connect with more prospective clients.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm excited to get my message out into the world and talk about the process that I use in ghostwriting client books.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it got me excited again immediately.
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  SPEAKER_00: Number two, what good things will happen because of this project?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, multiple levels of things here.
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  SPEAKER_00: One is that I get to educate people about the ghostwriting process as I practice it.
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  SPEAKER_00: It will also connect me with prospective clients who will pay me for services.
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  SPEAKER_00: Obviously, that's exciting.
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  SPEAKER_00: But also, I just get to put myself out there into the world as an elite and premium ghostwriter.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I've always sort of positioned myself that way to some degree, but this is going to amp this up a couple notches because the book is really well done, if I do say so myself.
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  SPEAKER_00: The cover is A, and it's phenomenal thanks to world-class designer Dino Marino.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the book is just going to um elevate my ghostwriting services in all the ways that it needs to, because the book looks great, it's very well constructed, and I think it's gonna have a lot of good results.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then number three, who am I becoming in the process of finishing this project?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, it's really the same thing that happens anytime that I finish a book, whether for myself or for a client, which is I lean into doing hard things that are exciting at first, but the more that you go through edits and the more that you work on something, it can be kind of drudgery.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's just be honest.
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  SPEAKER_00: Working through edits is not the most exciting thing in the world.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's just part of the process.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that is really, really important.
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  SPEAKER_00: So anytime that you do something hard and challenging and you go through the grind of finishing what you actually started, that makes you into a more resilient person.
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  SPEAKER_00: And gosh, that's a quality that benefits every single area of your life.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I hope these questions will help you too if you need to get excited about your book again.
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  SPEAKER_00: And honestly, when you're in the weeds of something, it's easy to lose sight of the bigger picture.
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  SPEAKER_00: But these questions are designed to help you step back and look at the bigger picture of why you committed to the project in the first place.
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  SPEAKER_00: As a result, I am trusting that you're going to get that love and feeling back.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hey, thanks so much for listening, as always.
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  SPEAKER_00: Keep writing, keep showing up, and I'll see you tomorrow.