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The 12 Week Year for Writers

A Comprehensive Guide to Getting Your Writing Done
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The 12 Week Year for Writers is a strategic guide designed to help writers increase productivity and achieve their creative goals more efficiently. The book introduces a unique approach of leveraging 12-week planning cycles, rather than traditional year-long strategies, to maximise output by enhancing focus and discipline. It offers actionable insights and techniques tailored to writers, aiming to transform their mindset and workflow for greater success in the literary world.
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This book may appeal to you if you're a writer looking to boost productivity and achieve ambitious goals in a shorter time span. It offers a structured yet flexible approach, breaking down the year into 12-week cycles to help you focus on what's essential, inspiring creativity and driving meaningful progress.

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Get more words on the page with this proven and popular system

The 12 Week Year for Writers: A Comprehensive Guide to Getting Your Writing Done is an easy-to-implement and practical framework for writers to get more work done in less time. You’ll answer big picture questions—What is my vision for the future? What are my writing goals?—while enacting a comprehensive system to plan and execute your writing.

You’ll create a 12 Week Plan and a Model Week, collaborate with a weekly writing group, keep score, and learn to stick to a weekly execution routine. The book will also show you how to:

  • Manage multiple writing projects at the same time
  • Develop a prolific writer’s mindset and increase your output with the 12 Week Year system
  • Deal with actionable specifics, like when and where to write

Ideal for writers in all genres and fields, The 12 Week Year for Writers is the perfect hands-on guide for academic and business writers, authors, students, columnists, bloggers, and copy and content writers who seek to increase their productivity and get more quality words on the page.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781119817437

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 11 November 2021

Country: United States

Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 25.0mm

Width: 145.0mm

Height: 213.0mm

Weight: 431g

Pages: 272

About the Author

A. TREVOR THRALL, PhD, is a writer and Associate Professor at George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government where he teaches courses in international security. He is a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute in the Defense and Foreign Policy Department.

BRIAN P. MORAN is Founder and CEO of The Execution Company, an organization that improves the performance and quality of life for leaders and entrepreneurs. He has management and executive experience with UPS, PepsiCo, and Northern Automotive.

MICHAEL LENNINGTON is coauthor of The 12 Week Year, and works with firms and top performers to help them create next-level breakthroughs by leveraging the 12 Week Year execution system.

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