Make Your Writing Goals to Stick ft. Erin Marcus (Classic Replay EP#569)
About this episode
Erin Marcus discusses how to set and achieve writing goals through decision making and action.
Be in charge, take action, get results. 🎯 Most of us stay stuck because we’ve never actually decided what we want. Business coach Erin Marcus on working out the outcome, reverse engineering the steps, and putting a date on it. 📅 A classic replay, and all of it still applies. ✨ Her starting point is that most people don’t get what they want because they’ve never decided what it is. Others know, but don’t believe they’re allowed to have it. Either way there’s nothing to reverse engineer from, so the work becomes what Erin calls random acts of marketing. The fix is a process: Decide. Take action. Look at what came back. Decide again. Erin writes out what she wants every morning because it makes the rest of the day’s decisions easier. She works in specific outcomes rather than feelings, because feelings are vague enough to let you off the hook. Then she asks the question that stops most people: when is it happening? Put it on the calendar, then live by the calendar. There’s a long stretch for writers in the middle. Trudi once spent an hour with Erin trying to decide whether she wrote urban fantasy or paranormal romance. Erin’s…
People in this episode
Guest: Erin Marcus
Topics covered
- writing goals
- business coaching
- decision making
- marketing
- self-publishing
Keywords
- writing goals
- business coach
- reverse engineering
- marketing
- self-publishing
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