Here’s a few tools and utilities you can use to help you write your book.
The Author 2.0 programme
Via Twitter, I met a really inspirational and switched on author’s coach from Australia called Joanna Penn. She’s put together a 12 week programme for published and aspiring authors that shows you how to build your own author platform using the latest ideas and concepts from Web 2.0
It’s definitely something I’ll be using to get my new book, Blocks, out there in July and August
WeScribeit
Many of the authors I work with find it easier to speak their stories as opposed to writing them. As a big fan of anything that gets around writer’s block, I was pleasantly surprised to come across a fantastic transcription service that sends your words back as text – all driven by human beings.
And, guess what, I ‘met’ them on Twitter too – if you are an author and not on it, you are really missing the wave.
You can listen to the ‘before’ and read the ‘after’ in my review of the service
Click here for a hyperlinked mind map of loads of really useful resources for authors and publishers.
Mind Mapping Software
Regular use of mind mapping synchronises both brain hemispheres and really switches on your creativity – it also improves your memory and recall
For creatives, I highly recommend Tony Buzan’s iMindMap
Meditation aids
If you have trouble meditating or perhaps want to accelerate your meditation, we highly recommend getting hold of a meditation machine. They are available in the UK with a 30 day money back guarantee from Ivor Murray at Meditations UK. I’ve got a Mind Spa and find it really useful to get into deeper states.
http://www.meditations-uk.com/main/choose_meditation_machine.html
One of the most powerful aids I have come across recently to awaken your creative muse is this amazing CD from English Shaman, Judith Seelig, called ‘Songs of the Body’.
Buy it, play it and be prepared for your world to change for the better.
You can order it on-line from Judith’s site & while you are there read about her journey and philosophy
How to build an income stream while you sleep
Method 1 is to sign up for the Bookwright’s affiliate scheme – details here
The second method is to build you own ecommerce and affiliate system. We can help you do this and set it up or you can sign up here and do it yourself
Recommended reading
Visit the Creativity section of the Bookwright’s Amazon aStore to find a selection of books that will help you craft and edit your book
Books on Creativity and Writing
& why not create your own Amazon aStore?
Find out how on this blog article
and note that you are not limited to selling books
You can sell CD’s, DVD’s, electrical, photographic and the whole range of goods are available
It’s a great way of accruing passive income that you can even use for your own Amazon purchases
Brain Entrainment Sound Samples and Software
If you are in the business of producing audio e-learning products, a great way to get your students to learn is to induce alpha and beta states in their brains.
This is not manipulative or dangerous, it just gets the brain into a learning and creative mode – rather like that of using a meditation machine.
Have a listen to the samples here:
We found this excellent company in the US that produces a whole suite of products that guide the uninitiated on how to produce really professional sounding and acting entrainment audio
Find out more about the products and theory behind it all here
I used these to produce the Unleash the Book Inside correspondence course and guided meditations.
Fotolia is a great source of royalty free photos you can use for your blog, web site or the inside or outside of your books.
