 Hi this is Debbie Daschinger and I'm so thrilled to be here with you. I am coming to you live about writing a book. It's spring isn't it? And in spring that's about new beginnings. So what have you been putting off since the first of the year that you really wanted to start? What was on your bucket list? And for many people I know it's about writing a book. So I have something incredible but I'm going to also want you to be clear. I'm going to be offering a lot of content too in this live video. So I sit back and enjoy but let me get this out right at the get-go so you understand what's possible. I've put together an anthology and I am accepting applications right now. You will see the link there. So please go ahead click on it. If you want to be vetted so to speak to be an author in an anthology book it would be my pleasure to check out who you are what your contribution might be what you're looking to do and if you fit everything all the parameters we've got going and our terms seem great to you as well then let's get this going. So here's why an anthology. First of all people love to read anthologies right? This is the kind of thing if you're a commuter on a shuttle or on a train or if you're traveling on a plane a lot of people prefer the short chapters to enjoy and read. So anthologies are very big on the reading list just so you know they're good sellers. Now for authors why would you do that? You would be in an anthology because if you're up a brand new author I want to be author. Someone who's dreamed of being an author this is an amazing chance for you to get your feet wet but not fully dive in. It is an amazing experience for you to actually pen something of course type it and see how it translates out into the world and get the experience of doing a book. Seriously a lot of brand new authors really like to go this route and there's two reasons. The first reason is they don't want to write a whole book. There's a lot of people who this is not their jam. It's not their thing to sit down and just write and write. For some of us that's in our charts right? That's in our life mission here is to write and we know there's a lot of pressure right these days if you're especially if you're an entrepreneur about how to be visible but writing a full book which you know is a really big arduous task is not for everybody. The other thing that has to do with that that whole experience and why you'd want to be an author but maybe not a full book author is that authors who have been through this experience of writing an entire book know five percent of your book is writing it. Now if you've written a book you know like that's a lot of work. I've just I've just spent this many months or this many years writing and you're telling me it's five percent I yes I am and I'm telling you it's five percent because if five percent is writing the book then 95 percent is what? Let's see if you know I'll check this out. Do you know yes do you know what 95 percent so I see lots of awesome people writing me and I love you all thank you and ha but I still want to know what's 95 percent if five percent is writing a book then the other 95 percent is the marketing after and what you do or do not do with a book after it's been written and this is for real because you don't want your book sitting out in digital lands right you've written it you've given birth to this baby through a book and all of a sudden it's sitting and no one's reading it and that's that's really sad it's not why you wrote the book so for people who contribute a chapter to an anthology what's wonderful and I'll tell you this is just what I'm creating for people so I've been in this business for quite some time I've got a hundred percent success rate I'm doing this anthology for you so you have an amazing experience from start to finish that means that even after you've completed your chapter I can tell you that everyone's been vetted everyone's going to be writing really inspirational motivational stories either their story real story can be fiction nonfiction or about somebody you know but this is about something that went from trial to transformation we want to know what you went through to get there what it was like in the beginning what you went through and what's the wisdom gained at the end so with this inspirational motivational book called I am still here the beginning to end is not only do you get to write a chapter I have an expert editor who'll be editing the book so you don't have to hire an editor I have an expert graphic designer who's going to design your cover you don't have to find or pay for a cover designer not only that but I want to make this really fun so we're going to design two covers because why not abundance is great and then all the authors who are contributing to this particular book are going to get to choose just so you know at the get go there's only 25 authors who will be accepted for this so once those are filled it is closed yeah it's going to be closed because 25 chapters is about standard so now you know you've got your written chapter you've got an editor I'm hiring so that that book is professional and fabulous and perfectly formatted you know I'm hiring someone to do the book cover and the graphics and you get to choose between two what's fun and here's the third thing the authors are all going to be interviewed on three radio shows so I've already got a preset for these three shows that we're going to have the authors on to have a conversation which is going to be a blast and of course one of the shows is mine too and the other two are author expert shows one of those interviews is going to be transcribed into an article for magazines so everybody will also be featured in an amazing magazine award-winning magazine so here's what else you get of course these are all bonuses right this is why you're contributing and this is why you're doing something because it's all done for you with the exception of writing oh well maybe not so here's something else if you really don't want to write your chapter don't worry we're going to interview you ask you questions and we will transcribe all your words into your chapter and edit it okay so now we've got the interview or writing your choice and transcription we have got the editing the formatting the two book covers you get to choose from we also have the interviews all authors will be interviewed we also have one of those interviews to be transcribed to an award-winning magazine and here is the piece to resist the most amazing portion I feel of all of this although it's all pretty cool so far the most amazing portion is that I have 100 success rate in my company taking books for authors to international bestseller it is a guaranteed service that I run and guess what for those contributing to the anthology it will be so so you will all get to be and finally put on your resume and say in your bio and everything else international bestselling author so we're going for it and you're also going to receive marketing copy and strategy calls with me that's a huge package I know I believe in over delivering because you're worth it and I want this experience to be so phenomenal for you so maybe you want to contribute to another anthology in the future because this will be so easy and graceful and have such a good feeling to it from start to finish the other reason besides someone getting their feet wet and having experience of being an author before a full-time author and also having the process entirely done for them is there are a lot of people out there who have written a book and through writing a book they just want a bigger platform and so for them right now an anthology is actually the next right step it's another piece for their resume and their writing skills as well so it's a very particular theme and a very particular subject I'm just going to skip here and say something really funny at least from my point of view and you know I actually have a contact lens in and it's so sad to admit this because I had hoped to be able to read everything but my eyes have degraded so much my contact lens I can't even see what you guys are writing so I still need to use my glasses and clearly I need to go back to the optometrist and get new contact lenses so I see all of you high high and high spike it's so great to see you all across the world hi everybody so this is awesome so let me just tell you if you're interested and I assume a lot of you are because being an author I've actually contributed to 12 anthologies myself and I'm already an international bestseller with three of my books I love the experience of doing it there's everything good about it so there is you will see right there the link debbied.net slash anthology and just so you know my name is DEBBI there is no E so definitely spell it correctly but the links there too you can just click on it and open another window and look while you're still with me here and feel free to ask me any questions you want to ask I also want to offer to you a little bit of information I promise content and so I shall so I want to offer you some content about I'm going to click out of something content about I'll go back to that in a minute yeah about writing so for those of you who want to write let's see if we can make your journey just a little easier I like easy you can tell and I really like working with experts so just know in my business too I work with a lot of people who are phenomenal at what I am not and I have no interest in so if you want to be a writer if you want to be an author you can rely on me I'm known as a book writing coach out in the world and I've had great success not only helping people write their book but turning it into a page turner a really wonderful book for all of us to read and I help authors to create a lot of ease in their space so writing happens it flows out of you in addition I run my bestseller book which is a guaranteed international bestselling launch company and I run visibility programs that's really the much that's the umbrella of what everything I do is under his visibility so I help people get interviewed on radio and podcasts I help them with their press media kit the books and so forth visibility if you're an entrepreneur it's everything you really know how to master it and it's not just about finding an opportunity here and there and suddenly going on radio and hit or miss if you're not getting results you need an interview coach you need someone who's going to work with you who can help you with your weaknesses and why you're not getting results who can help you turn things around and become the go-to authority in your field the known expert so you have a radical platform by using visibility it's very easy right there's not too much money it's almost free and if you do visibility well you will see great results through followers and clients and bookings and sales so that's what you want to do and if you don't have that now think about it because people like Oprah then Scully Bob Costas why are they so amazing hello Warren Buffett sound bites they all had an interview coach they work with media people like myself so consider that too okay we need to talk oh Karen you can PM me thank you thank you happy to let's let's move a little bit into content here and and about the desire to write so yeah I guess I'm going to get library in here let's talk about the desire to write and breaking it down you want to figure out what's the genre of your book and there are questions that you can ask yourself to sort of sift through what's inside of you to write because of course you want to be aligned with your passion for whatever you're going to spend time writing so make sure you really love it know that when you're writing there needs to be that feeling of excitement like you're the horse at the gate and you're ready to break out just lift that gate so I can start writing because it's inside of me thrilled at the opportunity that you get to express something in a way that the world has never known now know that as authors we're often doing we're doing subjects that others have done before but it is through our own filter of what nobody's said or perceived before and that's what makes you reach what you're doing and be really really different for a lot of writers as they start writing they can start to become haunted by this ancient fear that oh my god I'm not up to the task I'm not a writer a lot of people go through it so don't be hard on yourself and it's really inevitable inevitable because here's the deal stories at some level are always about betrayal stories are always about betrayal so take that in stories are always at some level about betrayal and that's something my very first writing teacher I'll give him a lot of props because he never knew all those years ago when he told me you have to come to Hollywood and take my writing class Alan Watt wherever you are who knew who knew but he saw something in me he insisted he saw this radio host and said 10 years ago you got to come you got to come and I'm like oh I'm not a writer I'm not interested but changed changed my world he opened me up brilliant writing teacher by the way so Alan Watt taught me that inherent in every transformation and all books about transformation yes inherent in every transformation is the betrayal of a lie so let's suss that out a little bit the desire to write is connected to the desire to evolve to untangle the lie that we've been carrying around about ourselves or our character that we're writing about could be a memoir could be about somebody else who doesn't really exist and the lie for us or the character is we're not enough the lie is we're not forgiven the lie is that it's never going to happen for us the lie is that just forget it honey pack it up go back to wherever you came from and the story we're writing asks everything of us for a reason and if we didn't we'd never surrender so through story new engagement we engage our consciousness in confronting our ego our desire to get something that we want only to discover its impossibility so our mission should we choose to accept it is to surrender the old story about ourselves to let the old identity die so that a new one can be born and that's challenging isn't it and that's also really courageous remember the meaning of courage is to do something in spite of fear not because of it and it's a soft whisper at the outer edges of our imagination that calls us to drive ourselves deeper into the truth but guess what our soul wants to grow our soul hungers for something more than just belonging and it hungers for its true place for a connection where there's no compromise of its fundamental nature and it aches to evolve that's what being a writer is about and it's not going to go away so story actually is alchemy you might say story is gold and if we trust the process as a writer if we stay with writing no matter what then our unconscious self will tell us everything that we need to know and it's not always revealed all at once so that's a big exercise in trust and just so you know thank you for what you're writing my name is d e b b i remember there's no e so if you want to go to that i see you writing thank you so much i'm sending you hugs i appreciate what you're writing d e b b i d dot net slash anthology so i want to talk a little bit more about transformation and writing what is your job as a writer well your job when you write is to track beats in a believable way that leads to a transformation i think if you look back over any event in your life something that took you from a real crap place something that happened to you that you didn't foresee that your back was against the wall that was impossible and you or you wanted something and it was so impossible to get it you had no idea who you're going to get there what happened to you to get to where you are now what happened that created that success and here is a key piece we don't usually go from this very difficult place all the way into transformation in fact it usually gets worse like a lot worse like dark night of the soul before something slowly starts to bring us back and beyond where we have the wisdom that was necessary to gain in the transformation that needed to take place so you need to track those beats and we can actually see that the journey that any human being or character that we're writing about that takes place is about getting from one place to another and that journey inevitably involves a transformation so what is transformation it's a great word and a lot of people use it today and i think it's a really important component of coaching actually transformation is what it is a shift in perception tada transformation is when we have seen something one way our whole life and then in an instant boom we see it another way this new way can seem miraculous well it could also seem very ordinary and oh duh yes of course now i see it so when a transformation occurs that's when the tension vanishes the fight disappears you could tell my dog is going nuts so i must be speaking truth i must be preaching here so when transformation occurs the tension vanishes the fight disappears and we are left with a fundamental knowing that was not there before and through the story of the hero the story we're writing and maybe the story of ourselves we come to understand that something that we were previously asleep to is now alive and awake and known to us you know einstein said you cannot solve a problem with the same thinking that created it so every story begins with a problem as a writer you need to find that problem and it's the problem that wants to be solved and our challenge is writers and boy do we have challenges our big challenge is a writer is to understand and accept that this character wants something maybe it's our memoir and it's us want something wants it desperately and the stakes those stakes are life or death so if our hero doesn't get what they want their life is going to be unimaginable and if the stakes are any less we're just not going to care as readers so it is that way in life isn't it got to get what we want we want it desperately transformation actually occurs when we recognize in a fundamental level that merely getting what we want is not going to actually solve the problem so here's an example if all that happens in the story is that the hero gets what he or she wants then well the audience is going to be disappointed right can you imagine if at the end of the movie it's a wonderful life jimmy stewart finally leaves bedford falls without having his epiphany that he already had a wonderful life what matters in any story is transformation for example the heroes coming to understand what it is that they need and when the hero or heroine hero or shero is willing to give to themselves that which they need then it becomes possible to them to have what they want if if what they want actually belongs in their life and it's the refraining from the meaning of the want that makes stories such a powerful tool story by definition is always moving towards transformation it is our job as writers to understand with specificity what the shift in perception is and what i like to tell people that i work with the authors that i help write their book is write what you know write what you know write what you know you're your best source what does it mean that we should write what we know to be true as opposed to what we wish were true or hope to be true or even believe to be true so write what you know and to write what we know means that we're being asked to write about something that we've experienced on an emotional level and we have come out the other side of we've learned the lesson and we've been transformed by the experience so that's actually what i am still here is all about i'm actually going to go myself to the webpage although i won't be able to bring it up for you right now but i'm going to go to debbie dot net slash anthology that's debbie i d dot net slash anthology and talk a little bit about how you can be a published author this year so many people that i know want to be a published author would like to be a best-selling published author but they really don't want to write an entire book no worries that's why anthologies are so awesome and so many people do them and so many people read them it is such a win-win and definitely a huge bump up to say not just a published author but an international best-selling published author really great coup and how great when you take the time to write that you get something so marvelous at the end very worth it if you have a personal story or you know of a story or maybe you have a great fiction story of a tough time through transition and transformation this anthology is absolutely for you so i'm looking for 25 coaches healers consultants entrepreneurs if you're out there definitely apply and you can email bestseller at debbie dashinger dot com of course you got to spell my name right for it to get to me d e b b i d a c h i n g e r dot com bestseller debbie dashinger dot com you can become a best-selling transformational author this year my superpower is visibility my superpower is visibility through books through media through interviews i help coaches i help healers i help consultants entrepreneurs who want to write a chapter and i take you from author to published i've helped hundreds hundreds probably almost a thousand authors right and make their book a success and you can be there too if you're interested there are applications for you to come in and because this program's completion success rate is 100 percent my author's books have already become international bestsellers and these authors have been interviewed and they get great results so i already know my applicants are going to get the same so why is this unique and why is this bonus filled yes first of all you get to write a chapter and be featured in an inspiring anthology book you get to write your chapter or if you don't want to write it we will interview you instead and have your interview transcribed your book is going to be launched and i'm going to do the entire launch to international bestseller guaranteed all the authors will be interviewed on three podcasts global press release will go out for the book a book video trailer is going to be created for the book the authors will be featured and published magazine the authors will get to choose and vote between two book covers which is going to be really fun i'm looking forward to seeing which one wins and you can be interviewed for your chapter right away you don't even have to wait you can apply and if you get in we can get you in the roster and get you going so your chapter is already done how awesome definitely a published author this year your book is going to be and your chapter is going to be professionally edited i promise i'm big on editing nothing goes out unless it's pro and your book will be launched in the third quarter of this year there's going to be marketing copy provided for the book you'll get to be able to send it copy paste or tweak it in your own language if you like you can go out to friends family database let everybody know this amazing thing you're up to you've written so they support you and they know you're an expert in your field there's going to be two bonus online zoom classes about how to write a page turner and more about being a writer so you can take that and run with being a writer for your chapter and anywhere else in your life there's going to be a bonus live mastermind free launch for the author is pretty exciting stuff you get to ask lots of questions besides i'll be given lots of content and the day of the book you'll get launch screenshots and rankings as your anthology book rises to bestseller woohoo it's pretty exciting because amazon doesn't keep proofs by the way so once your launch is done it's really up to the author to retain all their proofs i'm going to provide all of that for you all you got to do is look celebrate have champagne on ice and be ready for the bubbly and then save your screen shots there'll be transcription editing book interior and cover professionally done for you and the authors who register and submit their chapter first are going to be given priority in the front of the i'ma said front of the room but basically right so you've got a book chapter 1 through 25 the first who apply go to the very front and that's a good position to be in a book to be read so you want to be up the front chapters so if you apply right away and get in then you will be right in the front chapters you're going to write about yourself or someone you know or write fiction your chapter is about a tough or trying time haven't we all had them that amazingly you or the someone else you're writing about you made it through what was the transformation wisdom gain what changed what do you now know what can you share with us that ultimately could change our life because we resonate so much it was so deeply moved by what you shared with us and by the way chapters don't all have to be tear jokers some people are very witty and whimsical it's perfectly fine to write from that point of view it might even be about your animal your dog your cat your whatever fill in the blank that was very meaningful to you so no your imagination no limit at all limit less this is about being transition ultimate transformation so chapters can be on anything health business spirituality relationships you decide because every contribution is massive and will resonate with somebody out there you can be a published author this year so you can get ready to enjoy a successful book experience write your chapter for the anthology gain publicity and visibility and sign up today again the first 25 who register receive all of this and all the bonuses so be an author be a best seller be interviewed receive book coaching why not what a great way to do this here it's a debbie d dot net slash anthology and thank you Karen so much that's let me read this you're brilliant thank you for your guidance looking forward to learning from you being published this year is my goal listening to you I'm confident that we should work together Michael Lang is familiar with my writing his story okay small world very beautiful hey hey Michael too if you're still there so there's a lot of names popping up and rolling by but it's it's great to see you all so do you guys want me to share a little bit more about being a reader writer what would you like to hear because I'm happy to contribute to you today again this starts out being about being an author and the new anthology book it's available at debbie d dot net slash anthology it's debbie i d dot net slash anthology go there and you can apply or you can I would read it anyway I mean you really need to know I need to know you're vetted and you're clear about what is being offered and then if you wanted to email me it's also bestseller at debbie dash finger dot com you've got my spelling there just spell it correctly or it ain't going to get to me so more about being a writer happy to share we have all had the experience of being faced with oops being faced with a situation where to do something is going to put us in the position of receiving flak and we need to ask ourselves where do my values lie I bet you guys could post a lot about that if I were to ask because we've all been at the press of this it's incredible universal test isn't it and it's the tension between wanting to belong and wanting to be an individual isn't it ultimately who am I going to be in this moment so and just to answer you spike yeah just go ahead and email me if you want to be part of it or yeah you just hit the button great he went on the website and he's going to join us so as long as you set that up and I know you spikes so this is that would be fantastic I know you have some good stories so the tension between wanting to belong and wanting to be an individual the struggle for authenticity the struggle from which many if not all stories actually emerge it's what makes them fascinating compelling and page turners there are so many thematic questions for books for example who am I where do I belong what is my purpose what is love it's the struggle between desire and fear so story like life is this constant search for our true identity powerful stuff huh it really takes time for us to become comfortable with new consciousness because story is actually about the shift in consciousness and what happens the plot is merely a vehicle that illustrates the beats that lead to the transformation Michael yes to answer your question but don't call me now because I am on live so let me turn this off um so when you're a writer you want to hold your ideas loosely don't become too attached to what must happen it's really good to be a free flow when you're writing of course some people by the way like to go this is how they start writing this is not me but this is a beautiful way to organize yourself is to you know what you're going to write about right we talked about that in beginning of this video is how to sift through to ascertain what is your genre once you know what the genre is you're going to have a basic arc and know what is the story for the heroine share the shero or yourself and how this shift in perception is going to happen which is the actual plot and the transformation the way to do the organization is to actually write your basic chapter titles so if you know then you've basically plotted out where your book is going to go some pretty cool stuff right so you don't want to become attached to what must most must happen you want to be free flowing as I said because we're always moving from the general to the specific and if we as authors hold on to any of our our ideas too tightly then we become blocked worst feeling is an author right you're flowing you're flowing and then all sudden you wake up one day and it's like or you're in the middle of writing oh I've had this happen I was in the flow of writing an amazing book about a serious subject that was actually it had a lot of levity which is great for a serious topic I was so in the flow this is a true story and I was just starting to date this is quite some time ago like a couple of decades ago and I was starting to date and this guy that I really liked called and I looked down at my cell phone I'm like oh my god oh my god I know I shouldn't stop writing because I'm in a flow but I really wanted to talk to him but there I was in this this duality of knowing I should keep with what I'm doing because something magical was happening like I don't know I really wanted to pick up the phone and connect and I made the huge mistake I'm picking up that phone having the conversation and all I can tell you is that when I went back to writing my mojo wasn't there it was gone so we all know what it's like to become so blocked incredibly frustrating like how is that possible same person same story I'm writing what happened here it can take a lot to get back into the flow so honor the flow but also honor the fluidity right you don't have to be so rigid and stuck in where everything's gonna go here's the amazing thing about books they inform us it literally in my estimation is an entity that we're creating and I mean that in the best way not in a ghosty way it becomes an entity that we're giving birth to and trust me it's got an energy force and a life force it's got its own sheet that it's going to turn around and tell us this is who I am this is what's going on follow me and boy does it make it wonderful and easy and a very surprising kind of ride so take that ride be open to it we don't want to hold on too tightly to our ideas because then we do become blocked and as I said that is a really bad feeling and it could choke off possibility not a good place we want to allow the real truth from ourselves or from how the book is informing us to emerge are you telling your story oh have you always wanted to write a book have you thought about writing a book have you not written a book ouch because as writers we're storytellers we're actually world shakers we have a piece that the world is waiting to hear through our filter and readers are wanting and needing to read that has not been put out ever before in the way in which we will do that you have responsibility to yourself and your readers who don't even know yet about the amazing book you're going to write so become a writer it's time to take control of your writing life author are you ready to write your way to success writing is work plus the courage to declare ourselves writers self-discipline to write vulnerability to share our stories with the world very vulnerable for all of us and it's okay to take a deep breath and keep going so how in the world do you write with courage and confidence to fearlessly banish feeling frustrated and defeated when you sit down to write it's basically time to transform into the writer that you're meant to be that you came here to be part of your journey your soul's journey you deserve success i can tell you you deserve to be seen this ability is everything for all of us and books are one very powerful way to get yourself and your message out there so your writer success journey begins here debbie d debbie i d dot net slash anthology and i'd love for you guys to join me and it would be my pleasure to take you there i know a lot of my tribe and community we're of the same tribe right so a lot of you who apply you're going to be the right people to be part of i am still here and i hope you can feel the energy of i am still here who's created for a very deep purpose even for my own life and what i have in the last year and a half been able to get through deep stuff but what a beautiful gift to give to readers out in the world and inspire them and motivate them as well so they can get to a dark night of their soul so if you've got a chapter in you and if you want all these amazing bonuses that i am so happy to share with you because i really believe a book should be an incredible experience it's always been for me go ahead debbie d dot net slash anthology and i'd love to see you there we'll check out your application and we will get back to you anyway peace out everybody it's been great chatting and i look forward to the next