{"id":11091,"date":"2016-08-15T06:30:58","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T13:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=11091"},"modified":"2016-08-15T06:30:58","modified_gmt":"2016-08-15T13:30:58","slug":"the-more-you-write-the-luckier-youll-get","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/the-more-you-write-the-luckier-youll-get\/","title":{"rendered":"The More You Write, The Luckier You&#8217;ll Get"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday morning I was rapping a bit via email with the esteemed Bob Bly, who is one of the most prolific writers I have ever heard of. For example, he\u2019s written 89 full-length nonfiction books for Wiley, McGraw-Hill, and his other NYC publishers (for real publishers, not self published).<\/p>\n<p>Not to mention a slew of other info products.<\/p>\n<p>Countless numbers of ads, sales letters, emails, magalogs, etc.<\/p>\n<p>And, even, a book of short stories.<\/p>\n<p>I told him I haven\u2019t written even a fraction of the content he has.<\/p>\n<p>To which he replied:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u201cI always wanted to write a novel and have not, so you are way ahead of me in that department!\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here\u2019s why I bring this up:<\/p>\n<p>Today\u00a0I started book 5 of my \u201cEnoch Wars\u201d saga of novels.<\/p>\n<p>I wrote the first draft of book 4 last month, am writing book 5 this month, next month will be book 6 and sometime before the end of the year I\u2019ll bang out book 7\u2019s first draft. Then, next year, I\u2019ll edit and release them one-by-one.<\/p>\n<p>And you know what?<\/p>\n<p>If you want to write fiction you can just as easily do the same thing.<\/p>\n<p>All you have to do is write one chapter per day.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, if you want to be appear \u201clucky\u201d to everyone, simply do this:<\/p>\n<p>For the next 30-days every day you wake up \u2014 before you do anything else other than drain the weasel, take your dog out, etc \u2014 write one email to sell your product, write one chapter of a novel, and write a section\/chapter of an info product.<\/p>\n<p>Thirty days.<\/p>\n<p>Do those 3 things right when you wake up.<\/p>\n<p>Do that, and you will see changes happen to your business, your life, and your mindset you can never get buying yet another book on motivation or success, etc.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s my challenge to you, my little fledgling.<\/p>\n<p>Are you down for it?<\/p>\n<p>Good.<\/p>\n<p>Then get crackin&#8217;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Of course, if you need help with the writing emails part, to make it even easier and faster for you (which will carry over into your other writings, too), check out my \u201cEmail Players\u201d newsletter over yonder:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.EmailPlayers.com\"><strong>www.EmailPlayers.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tally-ho.<\/p>\n<p>Ben Settle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday morning I was rapping a bit via email with the esteemed Bob Bly, who is one of the most prolific writers I have ever heard of. For example, he\u2019s written 89 full-length nonfiction books for Wiley, McGraw-Hill, and his other NYC publishers (for real publishers, not self published). Not to mention a slew of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11091","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-email-marketing"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}