The 12 Week Year for Writers: A Comprehensive Guide to Getting Your Writing Done

Product Description
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.
From the Inside Flap
In The 12 Week Year for Writers: A Comprehensive Guide to Getting Your Writing Done, an expert team of writers and strategists delivers a practical and actionable way for writers to implement the celebrated 12 Week Year system and dramatically improve their productivity. The authors walk you through this strategic operating system for writers, helping you answer the big picture questions that will determine your success: What is my vision for the future? What are my writing goals? What are the best strategies and tactics to achieve those goals? How can I stay focused and productive?
This important book offers a comprehensive system for writers of all kinds and in all genres to plan and execute their writing. You’ll learn to create your 12 Week Plan and your Model Week, collaborate with a weekly writing group, keep score, and establish a weekly execution routine. The book will also show you how to manage multiple writing projects at once, how to increase your output with the 12 Week Year system, and how to develop a writer’s mindset.
From the down and dirty specifics, such as where and when you’ll write, to the broader outlines of your strategy, like goal- and deadline-setting, The 12 Week Year for Writers helps writers translate abstract motivation into concrete action, prose, or poetry.
Perfect for academic writers, business writers, authors, students, columnists, bloggers, and copy and content writers, The 12 Week Year for Writers is the ideal resource for anyone who wants to produce high-quality work more efficiently, reliably, and effectively.
From the Back Cover
Praise for The 12 Week Year for Writers
“We writers are a peculiar bunch, so I am impressed how Trevor manages to bridge high-performance practices into our creative world and make it feel natural. This book will help practitioners of The 12 Week Year for Writers method feel in charge of their writing projects and make continuous progress. That is a remarkable feat.”―CHRISTIAN TIETZE, writer, app developer, and Zettelkasten zealot
A Note From the Creators of The 12 Week Year
“We wrote the first version of our New York Times bestseller, The 12 Week Year, in just 12 weeks using our own system. Since then, we’ve helped people and companies all over the world to unlock their capabilities and accomplish more. With this new book The 12 Week Year has been adapted specifically for the challenges of writers.
If you are a student, a professional, a full time author, or you just love to write, this book is for you. Get it, study it, apply it, and you will cut months, (maybe even years), off the time it takes to produce your best work.”―Brian Moran and Michael Lennington, authors of The 12 Week Year
About the Author
A. TREVOR THRALL, PhD, is a writer and Associate Professor at George Mason University’s Schar School of Pol