Review
CUSTOMER REVIEW
If you desire to have a more organized office, then "The Organized Writer is a Selling Writer" is for you. Although only 110 pages, it is packed with information, tips, and articles written by Mrs. Lay, based on her many years' experience as a freelancer. All writers can use her suggestions "as is", or they can be modified to fit an existing organizational system. If you're just setting up an office, start implementing her ideas to get started on the right foot.
Every topic a writer might need is covered--goal setting, time management, follow-ups, marketing, reprints. There is even information for those who enjoy entering contests. Some of her ideas are what she started out with at the beginning of her writing career. They'd been tweaked, but as she learned that "simple is better" she reverted back to the original ones.
If you unclutter your mind and office by using the ideas in her book, you'll have more creative energy, more writing time, and you'll probably sell more because of your marketing strategies.
This is a book that will not stay on your bookshelf. You'll refer to it again and again as you either start a new system or modify and add to one already in place. Buy a copy for yourself. Then bless each member of your writing group with a copy. They'll be glad you did.
Joyce Heiser, Inspirational Writer and Co-founder, Lighthouse Christian Writers, Wisconsin
I picked up The Organized Writer this morning while I was waiting
for my computer to warm up. Two hours later I had a crick in the
back of my neck from sitting in the same position, highlighter in
hand, pouring over your book. Needless to say, I loved it. Thank
you!! I'm a pretty organized person, but I still learned a lot of
great ideas. I think the most important was to designate a Market
Day so marketing doesn't interfere with "writing." Things
are always trying to interfere with the actual writing part of writing,
so it helps to have the tools to avoid or alleviate those interferences.
Thanks again for a great book.
Tricia M
Review of The Organized Writer is a Selling Writer by Kathryn Lay
by Bryan Fields
As a writer with a genetic predilection for desktop entropy, the struggle for some semblance of order and direction in my work has been all but a lost cause.
Kathryn Lay has given me a glimmer of hope. With striking economy of words, she has laid down a practical, any-knucklehead-can-do-this guide to improving one�s writing. Instead of serving as merely another patch for self-help junkies to be pored over, talked about, and forgotten, this book is a true step-by-step guide that torpedoes the notion that writing is some mystical art to be practiced only when inspired, such as between trips to the refrigerator and �Star Trek� reruns. Lay doles out a healthy dose of reality, i.e., that with DISCIPLINE and COMMITMENT, any aspiring writer can achieve success.
While most of the information would not be completely new to most writers, the presentation is fresh, and, true to the title, organized, providing �duh, why didn�t I think of that� insight into time-tested principles: researching markets, how to avoid mistakes, wise use of time, and how to keep an enormous volume of submissions in the pipeline at all times while still having a life outside of writing.
The techniques explained in the book are proven; Lay is an extremely prolific writer, and states her firm conviction that anyone can be if they do what she has done.
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