Delegate responsibilities in your life to create writing time. Focus on your writing career. Get an answering machine, and create a message that lets callers know when they can most likely reach you. A lot of time and energy can be wasted on the phone. Don't publish your book on the Web.
People still love to read books.
Force yourself into a quiet space to write. There are lots of questions a writer must ask herself to honestly know if writing books is for her. Market intelligence that will focus a writer's book strategy is indispensable, too. Authors must educate themselves at all levels, Orr said. They must study publishing by reading trade publications, industry primers and spend time in bookstores.