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Embrace the Ease: Writing in Micro Moments

It’s easy to get overwhelmed with the WORK of writing a book.

You’re imagining endless days of being stuck at your computer, fingers frantically typing between bouts of staring out the window at life passing you by. Maybe even imagining carpal tunnel, hunched back, or endless papercuts.

My friend!

Snap out of it!

Nothing about THAT reality sounds fun. It doesn’t sound like it’s full of ease. And it sounds like it will take for-ev-er.

Thankfully, it’s also 100% completely made up. Sure, you CAN write your book that way. But you don’t have to.

You can embrace the ease. It happens when you write in micro moments.

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The best part about writing is that you don’t need fancy tools, a fancy setup, or a large chunk of time. Not to mention, you don’t get dirty, can do it anywhere, and there is zero clean up!

  • Pen and paper
  • Laptop
  • Even the notes app on your phone

What you do need is time.

While you’re out there searching for hours and hours to add into your day or making plans to sacrifice your Saturday afternoon, I’m here to tell you there is another way:

Micro moments.

You can easily and joyfully grab your writing tools and use those tiny moments in your day to work on your book.

  • Parked in the school pick up line.
  • Waiting at a doctor’s office.
  • While nursing the baby.
  • When the pot is coming to a boil for pasta.

Micro moments add up. And when you use just ONE of them in your day, they add up in your week to so many pages written.

And it can be easy!

To learn more about how to get the most out of your micro moments – and write your book without giving up Netflix, your kids soccer games, or locking yourself away – register for my free training “How to Finally Write Your Book (5 Steps) in 2023 – Without Sacrificing Your Life!”

In the class, you’ll learn:

  • All you need for your book is to write down your signature talk, right? WRONG! I’ll explain how your book needs to be so much more.
  • If you do this one thing you’ll be GUARANTEED to get MORE writing done… without giving up Netflix, your kids’ soccer games, or locking yourself in your office. (Hint: I’m a busy mom of three!)
  • My PROVEN system to write a message-driven book… so that you can reach the people you’re meant to reach! This is the system I use myself AND it has helped authors around the world to FINALLY start – and finish – their books!
  • AND debunking the Mental Monsters™ that keep you from even getting started… including my brand of Monster Spray that is sure to work. Get this wrong and you’ll NEVER finish your book.

Register Here!

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Ask this ONE Question Before Starting Your Book

Before you start writing your book, you need to ask yourself this one question:

Why am I writing a book?

If the answer is anything at all like, “So-and-so said I SHOULD write a book” or “I’ve gotten to the point where I feel like I SHOULD write a book” then STOP.

Do not write a book.

But if the answer is anything along the lines of:

  • I’m not reaching enough people and I need to get out there in a bigger way!
  • I can’t WAIT to share my message!
  • I want to help more people!
  • I love writing!
  • A book can help people while I’m sleeping!

Then it’s time for you to write your book.

The difference is between an external force telling you that you should write a book (heavy energy) and an internal force saying, “if I don’t get to write this book, I’m gonna explode!” (light energy.)

Inspiration waxes and wanes but if you aren’t inspired at all to write a book – don’t.

The best way to make sure that this is the time to write your book – and WHICH book you should write – is by honing in on ONE red-hot idea. An idea that COMPLETELY lights you up. That’s where my mini-course, The Book Idea Workbook comes in.

You’ll walk through powerful (and easy!) exercises to go through ALL the ideas you might have (and create plenty of ideas you didn’t know you had!) and then get laser focused on the ONE idea that really lights you up!

This isn’t a course that drags on and on! In fact, it’s designed to be done in a couple of afternoons. Perfect for when you’re feeling stuck or unmotivated.

And to make it an easy YES! The Book Idea Workbook is just $97 – for a limited time. (It’s normally $197 and is TOTALLY worth it at full price!)

Not only will you get clarity on the best idea for your (next) book, you’ll have plenty of ideas for future articles, social media posts, blogs, talks, and more!

Get The Book Idea Workbook Here >>> $97 for a Limited Time

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3 Common Sense Tips for Saving Money on Your Book

Writing a book seems like it should be really inexpensive – or even free – right? After all, you don’t NEED anything fancy – just a pen and paper.

And when you go digital, you probably already have a computer and a way to type.

But writing a book DOES have expenses. And no, you shouldn’t try to do it ALL yourself to save money. (You probably don’t have all the skills needed AND it will cost you in another commodity – time.)

Here are three common sense tips for saving money on your book:

1. Start in the RIGHT place

Publishing is sexy.
Cover design is FUN.

And these aspects of PUBLISHING your book will need a monetary investment. But to save money on your book, don’t make that investment until the book is written.

(VERY common sense yet I see many authors jumping ahead in the process and spending money on a publishing package they aren’t ready for, before the book is even written!)

And yes, you should start saving money NOW for publishing later. While I can’t give you a firm budget because all authors have different goals for publishing and marketing, you will need money to go from written book to published book!

2. Don’t buy it JUST because it’s on sale

This goes for everything from writing supplies, software, and courses. While I LOVE to stock up on my favorite one-subject, blue-cover, college-ruled notebooks every fall (back to school sales!) I don’t buy them when I don’t NEED to replenish my stash. I also don’t buy notebooks I know I won’t USE just because they’re on sale.

The same goes for software! You don’t NEED any fancy software to write your book. Especially since most of them are designed for fiction authors.

The one caveat I have on buying software is you DO need a good cloud-based, automatic backup software. While waiting for a sale if okay, don’t wait MONTHS and run the risk of losing your hard work!

I DO suggest you invest in a course (or coaching) on how to write your book. My course, Finally Write Your Book, takes you step-by-step through the process. (FYI – I don’t offer seasonal sales.)

When you’re investing in a course, be sure that it’s a good fit for you and what your goals for your book are. Don’t buy it JUST because it is on sale/a “good” deal!

3. Watch my free training

In my free class, “How to Finally Write Your Book (5 Steps) in 2023 – Without Sacrificing Your Life!” you’ll learn:

  • All you need for your book is to write down your signature talk, right? WRONG! I’ll explain how your book needs to be so much more.
  • If you do this one thing you’ll be GUARANTEED to get MORE writing done… without giving up Netflix, your kids’ soccer games, or locking yourself in your office. (Hint: I’m a busy mom of three!)
  • My PROVEN system to write a message-driven book… so that you can reach the people you’re meant to reach! This is the system I use myself AND it has helped authors around the world to FINALLY start – and finish – their books!
  • AND debunking the Mental Monsters™ that keep you from even getting started… including my brand of Monster Spray that is sure to work. Get this wrong and you’ll NEVER finish your book.

Register Here!

It is so tempting to think you need to DIY everything on your book. But having the right system (and mentor) to write your book means that you’ll be able to do it faster and easier – and then stop wasting money on courses, coaching, and programs that we’re a good fit for YOUR book.

While free trainings like mine are GREAT resources, also be wary of spending all your TIME trying to cobble together success from freebies. I give detailed training in my free training but the REAL juicy stuff is in the PAID course. When you want real success in writing your book, you need the full course, “Finally Write Your Book”.

Enrollment opens soon so get on the waitlist.

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A 2-Minute Practice for Creating Space in Your Calendar to Write Your Book

It’s no secret that writing a book takes time. And if you’re finding, day after day, that bedtime rolls around without having found time in your day to write your book then you NEED this 2-minute practice.

And no, it’s not about time blocking, “punishing” yourself when you don’t write, or giving up ANYTHING in your life.

In fact, you can do this practice WHILE you’re doing something else! (I like to do it when I’m brushing my teeth – that takes about two minutes!)

Look ahead into the next 24-hours of your day. Where is the time that your BODY is busy but your mind isn’t?

Examples can be:

  • Dishes
  • Folding laundry
  • Waiting in a school pick up line
  • Waiting a kid’s practice
  • Between meetings

You’re looking for a SMALL section of time – 10 minutes or less is perfect.

Decide NOW that you’ll use that time to THINK about what you’ll be writing in your next writing session.

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Then, during that “crack of time” instead of listening to music, chatting on the phone with a friend, or zoning out, you’ll be thinking about what you’ll be writing next. (And you’re not LOSING any time from your day!)

This part of the practice should take about a minute. All you’re doing is DECIDING what piece of body-busy-mind-isn’t time in your day you’ll use.

The next part of the practice is to find time when you’ll do your writing. (After all, you cannot manifest a book! You can only WRITE a book.)

For the next minute, look ahead into the 24-hours of your day, and pick two or three times when you could WRITE your book.

Picking a couple of times that MIGHT work mean that if anything changes in your day, you know you’ve got a back-up time!

Your early morning coffee-and-writing gets interrupted when the kids get up with the sun? No problem! You’ve dialed in time after that appointment downtown to sit at a coffee shop and write.

Last minute invite to coffee with a friend in the middle of your writing time? No problem! You’ve already identified another writing time slot you can use!

The school drop-off line goes super fast? No worries! You’ve got time to write while the Instapot does its thing for dinner!

By using just TWO MINUTES of your day – either in the morning for the day ahead or in the evening for the next day – you can completely END the cycle of going to bed with yet ANOTHER day of not writing!

I cover all this and more in my free class, “How to Finally Write Your Book (5 Steps) in 2023 – Without Sacrificing Your Life!”

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My “Can’t Live Without” Products for Writing Your Book

Every year I write a “Gift Guide for Authors” where I pull together the BEST gifts to give an author. This list are my PERSONAL must-have, can’t live without products for writing your book.

Please note that these are affiliate links so when you purchase from them, I’ll get a small commission. And also know that some of them might change from time to time.

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Can’t Live Without Lap Desk

While I prefer to write from my dual monitors, ergonomic keyboard desk, when I’m working from my laptop on the couch or propped up in bed, THIS lap desk is where it’s at.

See It On Amazon

 

Weighted, Heated Neck Wrap

My dad bought this for Ben and I for Christmas and it’s been a Game Changer. It conforms around your neck and shoulders and has a TIMER plus different heat settings. I don’t know about you, but when I’m writing a ton in my notebook, I end up gripping my pen in utter excitement – and that tension travels up my arm and settled in the area where my shoulder meets my neck. OUCH.

This neck wrap is the game changer for me. It allows me to write more, and more comfortably.

See It On Amazon

 

The “Wave” Keyboard

I write. A lot. And when I transition from the tax office to my own writing business, I couldn’t figure out why my upper body suddenly ACHED. I was in my 20s for crying out loud!

It all stemmed back to HOW I was using my keyboard. In the tax office, it was moving from typing in short notes, using the 10-key calculator, and lots of mouse work. WRITING is well… home row on the keyboard all the way.

I discovered the Wave keyboard (wireless, of course) and have since worn out FIVE. I can’t recommend this enough!

See It On Amazon

 

Water cup with a lid

This is another of those things I use and abuse – my water cup! Over the years, I’ve had dozens of them (they don’t survive a drop very well) and they last longer if you don’t put them in the dishwasher.

It’s the Copco Minimus double wall tumbler

The reason I like THIS cup rather than a cheaper version:

  • Insulated. Keeps the drink colder longer.
  • Wide base. So many cups are very narrow at the bottoms so they tip.
  • Screw-on lid. It doesn’t pop off!
  • Clear. Out of sight… out of mind. If I can’t SEE the water, I forget to DRINK the water.

Finally Write Your Book Course

Yes, this is a not-at-all veiled marketing ploy. As the author of 20+ books of my own, someone who has helped hundreds of students world-wide, AND mentored dozens of clients to become bestsellers, let me tell you:

This system works.

You can get a rundown of the FULL system in my free class, “How to Finally Write Your Book (5 Steps) in 2023 – Without Sacrificing Your Life!” ​Register Here.​

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My Gentlest Tips for Writing More Without Fear

Writing doesn’t SEEM like it should be scary… but it can be!

You’re not composing an email – you’re putting your innermost thoughts on the page FOR OTHER PEOPLE TO READ.

You’re not sending a text – you’re sharing parts of your life’s story in print FOR OTHER PEOPLE TO READ.

You’re not doing a quick Instagram post about your hike – you’re sharing what you KNOW will help someone else and putting it out there FOR OTHER PEOPLE TO READ.

You probably love journaling. You enjoy quiet time in nature. You’re the BEST listening ear to any friend (or stranger) in need.

It isn’t actually the ACT of writing…

It’s the fact that you’re writing FOR OTHER PEOPLE TO READ.

Here are my GENTLEST tips to help you overcome that (very real) fear:

1. Remember that you are loved.

Hold onto that feeling of love. You love your reader (deeply) which is why you’re called to share your message. And they love you just as much.

Your reader ALREADY loves you.

Sink into that feeling of love and let it come out in every word.

 

2. Go gentle with yourself.

This is Big Work that you’re doing. Give yourself extra time and space to process. Take that time in nature. Have a shower by candlelight. Slowly sip the tea before you begin to write.

Writing your book shouldn’t take years – but it will take energy. Be gracious with yourself and meet those needs.

3. Ask for support.

You do not have to do this alone. Getting the right support and mentorship can make all the difference. Through my course, Finally Write Your Book, you’ll have a proven process to lean in to (not figuring it out on your own) PLUS support from your fellow authors so that you never feel alone.

Enrollment for Finally Write Your Book opens soon. But you can get started, today, with an easy action by joining my free training, “How to Finally Write Your Book (5 Steps) in 2023 – Without Sacrificing Your Life!”

Register Here.

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When the “Template” Doesn’t Work to Write Your Book

I once sent an email with the subject line:

“Do you want a template to write your book?”

And the open-rate was Off.The.Chart.

People DO want a template to write their book.

Do you?

Does that sound… easier? Simpler? Faster?

Here… use these ten chapters, change out THIS story, put your point in HERE, format it like THIS…

Sure, it SOUNDS easy.

Except…

Templates don’t work for a message-driven book.

You can’t boil down YOUR knowledge, YOUR expertise, YOUR message, YOUR heart and soul connection with the reader into ten chapters that fit perfectly into a pre-determined template.

And when you try…

FRUSTRATION.

The “write a book template” that you’ve tried… you already know it doesn’t work for you. YOUR message is bigger than that.

There isn’t a cookie cutter way to write a book.

What there IS, is a proven system. One that works for ANY type of non-fiction book, and one that has been proven, time and again, by message-driven authors just like you, around the world:

Finally Write Your Book

Doors open soon for Finally Write Your Book. Inside the course, you’ll get:

  • Kim’s full “Story Path” System ($5000 value) this is the exact same PROVEN system that has helped authors JUST LIKE YOU write their books
  • Students-Only Facebook Community ($3750 value) where you can find your accountability buddy, access the group Q&A call, and have ongoing support
  • Monthly Group Q&A Call ($2000 value) so you have MY brain on your book — and hear from your fellow message-driven authors.
  • How to Take Author Headshots ($400 value) so that your readers can instantly connect with you.
  • About the Author Action Sheet ($500 value) so you can easily write your author bio for the book, your marketing, and speaking gigs!
  • Software Recommendations ($1000 value) so you know exactly what you need to write your book and don’t waste time “shopping” for programs.
  • CTA worksheet ($500 value) — so you can have your readers take actions (buying a course or getting on your list) without having your book read like a long-form sales letter OR leaving the “work with me” to be an afterthought.
  • And more!

 

The course guides you through each step, one at a time, so that you can be successful in writing your book. And you’ll write the book that’s on YOUR heart – not a templated book that looked good… but then really doesn’t fit YOUR message, YOUR stories, what YOU want to share with the world!

And as soon as you enroll, you have instant access to the entire course AND you’ll have lifetime access so you can do it at your own pace! No need to KEEP waiting on that “As soon as…” to happen in your life.

RIGHT NOW – learn how your book is unique to YOU in my free class, “How to Finally Write Your Book (5 Steps) in 2023 – Without Sacrificing Your Life!” Register Here.

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