How to Create an Author Growth Plan to Succeed in Your Writing Journey

01/13/23 • 19 min

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We have all heard the statistics about people making and breaking their new year's resolutions. It's nothing new, and if you are like me, you're probably one of those numbers. These resolutions don't work because, more often than not, they are too generalized. I want to lose weight. I want to be more outgoing. I want to finish my book. If you don't have a plan on how you are going to lose weight, be more outgoing than your resolutions are as good as the wishes you made when blowing out your birthday candles.

In this episode, Kenny shares how to create an Author Growth Plan or AGP for short. An author growth plan is a road map to help you move forward in your author journey.

In this episode, Kenny shares how to create an Author Growth Plan or AGP for short. An author growth plan is a road map to help you move forward in your author journey.

Previous Episode

12 Gifts for Writers

How do you answer the question, "What do you want for Christmas?" In this episode, Kenny shares 12 gift ideas for writers.

Physical Gifts:

1. Noise Cancelling Headphones

2. Blue Light Glasses

3. Laptop Stand

4. Travel mug, coffee cup, or sticker with an encouraging saying or a phrase stating what you want to be ex. Future Best-Selling Author

5. A Gift Card to your local bookstore

Books:

6. Save the Cat Writes a Novel by Jessica Brody

7. The Ten Commandments of Author Branding by Shayla Raquel

8. The Secrets of Character by Matt Bird

9. The Emotion Thesaurus by Angela Ackerman and Becca Puglisi

10. Author Your Dream by Kenny MacKay

Program/Subscriptions:

11. Grammarly

12. Milanote

Next Episode

Story Frame: More than an Outline

When Matty Dalrymple created the idea of the story frame, she didn't want it to be just another name for an outline. For some, an outline is rigid, whereas the story frame feels a little more organic. This frame gives an author a clear picture of the overarching story and gives you something to hang everything else on.

05:45 The Indy Author Podcast

09:32 What a story frame is

15:16 Formatting

24:23 How long the process takes

33:21 How you can create a frame

41:54 Differentiating plots and subplots

43:49 How to know you've gone too far

50:17 Author Action Point