Comments on: How to write your book https://www.publicationcoach.com/how-to-write-your-book/ & Gray-Grant Communications Tue, 29 Nov 2022 12:59:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 By: Daphne Gray-Grant https://www.publicationcoach.com/how-to-write-your-book/#comment-6097 Sat, 15 Aug 2015 22:21:00 +0000 http://pubcoach2018.wpengine.com/?p=10687#comment-6097 In reply to Sharon.

Hi Sharon, You need to know which version of Word you have. Then, I suggest, doing a google search with the version plus the words “reading ease.” Alternatively, you can also go to this site and copy and paste your text into here: http://www.online-utility.org/english/readability_test_and_improve.jsp
Hope this helps!

]]> By: Sharon https://www.publicationcoach.com/how-to-write-your-book/#comment-6096 Sat, 15 Aug 2015 20:07:00 +0000 http://pubcoach2018.wpengine.com/?p=10687#comment-6096 Hi Daphne
I was so inspired by this blog that I went back, and read your Self Edit blogs 1-4, written before I started receiving your weekly blogs. In them, you mention that pgs 75-78 in your book (8 1/2 Steps) tell you how to get the Reading ease statistics. However word has changed and there is no longer a tools menu. I can find the spelling and grammar under review, but can see no options where I could find and add the Reading ease statistics. Do you have directions to set them up now? Or a website I could use to identify the reading ease of my writing?

Thanks, Sharon

]]> By: Daphne Gray-Grant https://www.publicationcoach.com/how-to-write-your-book/#comment-5373 Wed, 18 Mar 2015 16:25:00 +0000 http://pubcoach2018.wpengine.com/?p=10687#comment-5373 In reply to Dhawal.

Don’t give up! Just keep trying different stuff every day to see what’s going to work for you.

]]> By: Dhawal https://www.publicationcoach.com/how-to-write-your-book/#comment-5372 Wed, 18 Mar 2015 16:20:00 +0000 http://pubcoach2018.wpengine.com/?p=10687#comment-5372 Thank you. I am encouraging my self to write and I guess following your blogs and email course, eventually I will be able to do it regularly. Thanks again.

]]> By: Daphne Gray-Grant https://www.publicationcoach.com/how-to-write-your-book/#comment-5371 Wed, 18 Mar 2015 15:21:00 +0000 http://pubcoach2018.wpengine.com/?p=10687#comment-5371 In reply to Tim Bradley.

True. But not quite as satisfying…

]]> By: Daphne Gray-Grant https://www.publicationcoach.com/how-to-write-your-book/#comment-5370 Wed, 18 Mar 2015 15:20:00 +0000 http://pubcoach2018.wpengine.com/?p=10687#comment-5370 In reply to Clarisse.

Hi Clarisse, Could you make your writing time in the morning? We all have much stronger willpower then. Also, fewer things tend to get us off track (especially if we get up before anyone else in the house.)

]]> By: Clarisse https://www.publicationcoach.com/how-to-write-your-book/#comment-5369 Wed, 18 Mar 2015 10:03:00 +0000 http://pubcoach2018.wpengine.com/?p=10687#comment-5369 Hi Daphne, thank you for these helpful advice. #5 speaks to me the most. What do you think about committing a unit of time for writing (Write for 1 hour everyday) versus strictly following a fixed schedule? (Write from 3pm to 5pm everyday)

I’m currently doing the latter. I’ve set in my Google calendar to write from 3pm to 5pm. I’m trying to establish this as a habit.

However, I’m having a hard time sticking to it. It’s not only because of chores and unexpected events but also because I often find myself wanting to do something else.

Sometimes, when it’s time to write an article for a client I feel like doing more research instead or writing a different piece than was planned.

Do you think I should ditch the rigid schedule and just go with the flow?

Thanks

]]> By: Tim Bradley https://www.publicationcoach.com/how-to-write-your-book/#comment-5368 Wed, 18 Mar 2015 01:15:00 +0000 http://pubcoach2018.wpengine.com/?p=10687#comment-5368 When people ask me if I’d ever write a book, I answer, “It’s so much easier just to buy one.”

]]> By: Daphne Gray-Grant https://www.publicationcoach.com/how-to-write-your-book/#comment-5367 Wed, 18 Mar 2015 01:01:00 +0000 http://pubcoach2018.wpengine.com/?p=10687#comment-5367 In reply to Elena Rodriguez.

Yes, you can fall down a lot of rabbit holes if you don’t focus your research before you begin it!

]]> By: Elena Rodriguez https://www.publicationcoach.com/how-to-write-your-book/#comment-5366 Wed, 18 Mar 2015 00:49:00 +0000 http://pubcoach2018.wpengine.com/?p=10687#comment-5366 Thank you so much for this very practical and practicable post. I am so printing this out to use as a guideline when I start my novel. Wish I’d had this when writing the several non-fiction books I’ve finished over the years. In fact, in that I’ll be writing a historical novel, I had thought to finish most of my research first. Now I’m convinced that I should frame my major plot points first. Even if such an outline is incomplete, it will keep me on track with my research and prevent me from going down too many unproductive rabbit tracks.

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