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

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.

A. TREVOR THRALL, PhD, is a writer and Associate Professor at George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government where he teaches courses in international security. He is a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute in the Defense and Foreign Policy Department.

BRIAN P. MORAN is Founder and CEO of The Execution Company, an organization that improves the performance and quality of life for leaders and entrepreneurs. He has management and executive experience with UPS, PepsiCo, and Northern Automotive.

MICHAEL LENNINGTON is coauthor of The 12 Week Year, and works with firms and top performers to help them create next-level breakthroughs by leveraging the 12 Week Year execution system.

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of Action Steps

Section I. Why You Need a New Writing System

Chapter 1. Why You Need a New Writing System

Chapter 2. The 12 Week Year for Writers

Section II. Getting Started with the 12 Week Year

Chapter 3. Crafting Your Writing Vision

Chapter 4. Creating Your 12 Week Plan

Chapter 5. Creating Your Model Week

Chapter 6. The Weekly Writing Group

Chapter 7. Scorekeeping

Chapter 8. The Weekly Execution Routine

Section III. How the 12 Week Year Will Help You Write

Chapter 9. Making Your First 12 Week Year a Success

Chapter 10. How to Use the 12 Week Year to Write More

Chapter 11. How to Manage Multiple Writing Projects

Chapter 12. How to Write Together with the 12 Week Year

Chapter 13. The Writer’s Mindset

Chapter 14. Parting Thoughts

Section IV. The 12 Week Year in Action

Chapter 15. How I Used the 12 Week Year to Write This Book

Chapter 16. Frequently Asked Questions

Notes

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