Writing Past Boredom

Meh. So I’ve been writing this e-book for a while now. It’s actually done, barring the appendices and the very useful checklists to be included at the end. The subject: Stress Free Moving and Relocation. It’s a subject I have oodles of experience in, and the book itself – a useful how-to – only took a week or so to complete.

So why can’t I just finish this last little bit and start marketing the damn thing?

I’m bored. You see, I’m 32 years old and have moved 30 times. I have written these checklists out longhand dozens of times. I mean, that’s the whole reason I wrote the guide – I know this stuff by rote, and want to pass the knowledge on. Yet when I think of writing it all down again, and doing all the pretty-pretty formatting stuff, I want to cut my eyes out.

So I’m breaking it down. Overall it will take me a little longer to get the e-book finished (though not as long as completely shutting it down, as has been the case), but it will in fact get done.

Today I will make an un-formatted, brainstormed, badly spelled jumble of a list. I will take one hour in which to do this.

Tomorrow I will take one hour to make it pretty.

Wednesday I will take one hour to revise.

Thursday and Friday I will take one hour each day to tie the whole thing up. Over the weekend I will do the cover and convert to PDF. Next week I will begin the marketing.

I will get through this, and I will help other people by completing it. I just have to keep telling myself that.

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