How to Build Your Confidence & Writing Skills

The Author's Way Podcast

Are you curious about how to start or continue your writing process successfully? In this new Q&A session, Jennifer gives great advice on how to increase your writing presence on LinkedIn, and how the right path to finding more time to write. She breaks down different alternatives to tell your story if you don't want to write a book and delves into how many books you can work on at the same time. Let's tap into unique and incredible tips to build your writing skills!

Key Highlights:

[00:01 - 07:05] How to Increase Your Writing Presence on LinkedIn

• This podcast is brought to you by Execuwright. Visit https://execuwright.com to see how we can help you get that book out of your head and onto paper

• Jennifer shares how people can participate in this new Q&A session

• Submit questions through the website https://execuwright.com
• Attend live sessions which will be recorded and turned into an episode

• You can participate in book writing and publishing discussions through social media

[07:06 - 14:01] How to Find Time to Write

• You can use your community to build your book's audience

• Start to become interested in what it is that you have to offer

• It's okay if you pull the information directly from your book for social media posts

• As long as it's content that you wrote and it's published under your name and copyrighted by you

[14:02 - 20:51] Alternatives to Writing a Book if You Don't Want to

• What to do if you don't want to write your book, but have a great story to tell

• Use social media platforms like LinkedIn, Facebook, and YouTube
• Start a blog and share your story regularly
• Create videos or podcasts about your story

[20:52 - 27:50] What You Should do to Write a Book

• How starting a blog can lead to creating content for a book

• Interviewing people for content for your blog and book can help you build confidence and skills

• Jennifer discloses a method for having multiple books going at the same time

• Think about the purpose of each book, who your audience is, and how you want to use the book

[27:51 - 33:38] Wrapping Up!

• Jennifer advises against having more than one book project going at a time

• Focus on one book and complete it before moving on to the next one

Key Quotes:

"There are lots and lots of ways to get your story out there without necessarily writing a book." - Jennifer Wright

"As you get more comfortable and more confident in yourself and more confident in your writing skills, you get better at sharing more and more information." - Jennifer Wright

Do you have a book idea in your head, but you haven’t put it to paper because you don’t know where to start?

Visit https://execuwright.com to see how we can help you get that book out of your head and onto paper!

Connect with Jennifer on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferwrightexecuwright/

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