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    Writing was the Easy Part
    Writing was the Easy Part
    Writing was the Easy Part
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    Writing was the Easy Part

    By Tracey Lee Hoy

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    Would you like your writing to be more than just a hobby? Writing was the Easy Part - Powerful writing & proofing tips looks at creating a workable writing space, planning, setting realistic goals, effective time management, writer’s block, taking breaks and a power proofing trick for a more purposeful and productive writing experience to begin your writing experience.
    Some writers in their creativity can also be disorganised, unconventional and downright messy in their approach to their writing. This guide will help you through some of the most basic concepts from defining your objectives and to be able to define a few realistic goals. Understand more about the way your writer’s brain works and discover a great proof-reading tool. Learn to recognise when you have written enough and how managing your time is very important.
    Setting and reaching goals and your approach to your writing all have an impact on what you will achieve over a period of time and make the difference in how your career progresses for a more purposeful and productive writing experience at ground level.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTracey Lee Hoy
    Release dateJan 30, 2013
    ISBN9781301906765
    Writing was the Easy Part
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    Tracey Lee Hoy

    Australian born, Author, Artist and Musician,Tracey lives with her family in the beautiful countryside of South Wales.Tracey's first edition of, Rhuddlan, first book in the Conwy series was first published by Authorhouse in 2007. Rhuddlan, Conwy, Padraig, and Galen's Child are now available in ebook format from most international distributors and Smashwords. The fifth and final book in the Conwy series: Caery's Gift should be available in 2020Other titles by this author are: Lilláen of the Lake, What Brainstem and Other Anecdotes, Illustrated Children’s picture book Cadwy's Haircut, and Writing was the Easy Part – a self-help guide to improving writing.Tracey's latest book is Isobel's Dreaming, was published on February, 10th 2019.

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      Writing was the Easy Part - Tracey Lee Hoy

      Writing was the Easy Part

      Powerful Writing & Proofing Tips

      Written by Tracey Lee Hoy

      © Copyright 2012 Tracey Lee Hoy

      Smashwords Edition

      Tracey Lee Hoy asserts the moral rights to be identified as the author of this book. All content in this E-book unless otherwise stated is the sole work of the author and remains the sole property of the author and shall not be reprinted, copied, distributed, reposted, reprinted, shared or used without the author’s implicit permission and is legally protected by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988. Characters, locations and settings in this Ebook unless otherwise stated in the Author Notes are fictitious and bear no resemblance neither living nor dead of actual persons or places.

      But I, being poor, have only my dreams, I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. ~ W.B. Yeats (1865–1939)

      Chapter 1

      Create a Happy Writing Space

      You Call That Mess Your Office?

      You will need somewhere to base yourself – even though you probably write from a computer or laptop. Ideally you need a place where you have a desk, a filing system, pens, paper etc and try hard to keep it as organised as you can. A lot of writers tend to be very creative and this often means we can be disorganised, free-flowing and downright messy individuals with our desks filled with papers, books, chewing gum wrap, paper scraps, laptop, files, Cd’s (in and out of cases) envelopes, pins, pens, staplers, half a dozen half-filled coffee mugs,  Phillip’s Head screwdriver, plate with crumbs and very hard crusts, hair bands, letters, vacuum cleaner nozzle, bandage, hand cream (with or without lids) clothes, bracelets, calculator, tissues (for when you receive your rejection letters) printer, in-out trays, toothbrush, mini-skateboard, empty pencil case, glue stick. Honestly, this is not hard to write, I’m just looking about

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