5 Tips to Get that First Draft Done

Hello. Happy Tuesday to you. Actually, it's Happy May as well. Can you believe we are at the start of May already? All right, so today we are going to be talking about getting that book done. Five tips to just finally get your book written out of your head onto the page. So that's what we're going to cover today. I'm really excited. So I think as you know, I am in the middle of writing another book, a follow up to Self Publish and Succeed. It is going to be a book all about book marketing and it started off with a, I think about a 13 chapter outline and it just keeps expanding. So it's been quite the fun journey. So anyone who is working on a book knows the pain of wanting to finish but struggling to find the time or spinning in circles, not making progress. So I feel you. And that is what today is all about. So as you're joining in, say hello and if you're watching the replay, you can let us know that your hashtag replay. Of course, whether you're watching live or you're watching the replay, you will always be entered to win some fabulous book launcher swag. If you're commenting the day a video has come out and we are very excited to share our swag with you. We've got it all back in stock again. We which is wonderful after we had some struggles with the mugs and the journals for a while. Our journals are a slightly different edition than our previous oh so self journals, but they're still awesome. But yeah, so I blocked yesterday off and this is what I've been doing periodically to just try to knock some major, major, major words off of this book project to get it done. And, and yesterday was one of those days where I blocked it off. I, I had one fairly major meeting that I had to attend but otherwise the day was primarily dedicated to working on the book. So no calls. I turned email off, I turned my notifications off from my team and I just focused and, and that's what I have found is what I need to do these days. There's a lot going around, going on around book launchers and you know, in my household with a five year old, you know, my old strategy of waking up and working on the book at 5am has not worked because he's got this little radar and no matter how quiet I am, if I am up and working, he seems to sense it and show up and want to play. So the 5am strategy hasn't worked super well because I find I have to play with him for 35 you know, 30 to 45 minutes before I can then, you know, say, hey, go do something else for a little bit. And then it's really hard to write with him around. So. So that was my old strategy. It's not working so well. So focus. Time has been what's working for me. But lots has been going on around Book launchers, too. And many people who own businesses or have busy careers and they're trying to write a book, they can relate with having so many pressing priorities that it can be hard to find time. So that's the first thing, is you have to find time. And then today, I'm going to give you five tips to just get that book done. And the other thing I'm running into, so just letting you know that I feel your pain if you're struggling a little bit, is this is a book about book marketing. And I'm really capturing all the things that we do at Book Launchers and putting it in to a book. And what I found is we are constantly evolving, and we're testing and we're learning and we're revising. And so just in the last, I don't know, 90 to 120 days, we have added things like a full author branding process, complete with an author branding guide that we're now using. We've been doing bookbub submissions, and now I'm testing bookbub ads. We have a researcher who's doing physical mailing addresses, and we're sending out books with letters and things like that. And this is on top of everything that we're already doing. And so even as I'm writing the book, I'm learning new things, and we're expanding our processes and finding things that are working and wanting to share that. So I'm also finding it challenging to stick to my outline because I'm going, oh, where I need to add this. Oh, I need to tell people about this. So my book is getting fatter and fatter and fatter. All right, so let's see who's here today. Anthony, hello. Welcome. It's so great to have you here. Efren, hello. He says dunzo, so I'm thinking he means Dunzo, because his book is off to the editor, which is so exciting. Efren. And I really should say his books, because if anybody can relate to the expanding words, it's you. Because my book, I was just telling the team, like, I'm not even halfway through the content that I want to put in the book, and I'm already at 43,000 words. So right now this is shaping up to be a 90,000 word book, which is small compared to your Zephyrin, but it has expanded because I was shooting for 65,000 70,000 word book when I started out on this. So we know how it goes. But I'm very excited for you. So congratulations. Efren Jacques, great to have you here. Sean, hello. Great to have you here. Live and poetry from the heart. So great. So if you're listening, do say hello. There's also prizes for saying hello. And let's just dive into these tips. So number one is to lose the mindset that your book needs to be good. When you're writing your book, just forget about that and just set your sights on writing a bad first draft, or some people call it a vomit draft. And just focus on the first goal, which is getting the content out of your head and onto the page. Because it can be paralyzing to be judging your content as it's coming out and to feel like you need to make this book spectacular because you don't, you don't have to make the book spectacular and it won't be on the first run. And that frankly is what editors are for. And you know, going over it again after with a more critical set of eyes. But goal number one, bad first draft. Get it out of your head, onto the page, try and get as much of the content out as you think needs to be there. And then you're going to send it off to, well, you'll probably read it one more time and then you'll send it off to editors who are going to take it and go from good to great or even from not so good to great. The evolution is pretty dramatic for most books. So lose that. That's tip number one. Lose that mindset that your book has to be good and just get the content out. Number two is test different locations. We have options. Again, things are open. And my go to place for my first two books that I wrote was Starbucks. I don't know what it was about writing in a coffee shop, but I found my groove. I could focus. I put my headphones in. There was like the dull noise of what was going on in the background, but it wasn't anything I had to pay attention to. And for me, I really found my groove. Could have also been the americanos that I drank while I was writing at Starbucks, but regardless, I found that was great. With book three, that wasn't an option. Starbucks was not open to people sitting in their cafes when I was writing that book. So that wasn't an option and I wrote it at home, which was I found incredibly challenging. But with this book, I have just been writing it as though it's normal workday. So I'm writing it wherever I'm working that day, whether it's in my office or at my home office. And I've been thinking I should test out going to other locations because I also know in the past I've found really great grooves working in airport lounges. If there's a flight delay, even sometimes in a hotel room, there's no other distractions. I find a hotel room can be a great place. And I shared, I've shared in the newsletter that came out on Monday. If you aren't getting the newsletter, head over to book launchers.com and sign up for our launch letter. But if I shared that there's a woman who wrote found that taking cars into the car mechanics, the tire shop I think it was actually she found a great groove writing there and she started to write there regularly taking friends cars in when they needed it. Just found her groove there. So test locations and really try to find a location that does have minimal disturbances because you lose so much time and focus when you are disturbed. And so this is for anybody in a busy office or at home with children, it is really important to try your best to not only turn off all the Internet notifications, cell phones, emails, all that stuff to focus, but also to let those around you know that if nothing is on fire, you shouldn't be disturbed. All right, let's do some prizes. Let's go to. So every Tuesday and Friday a new video comes out and if you comment the day a video is released, you'll be entered to win some of our fabulous swag. So I've gone ahead and collected all the names and and I put them into a random name picker online and I'm going to hit the green button and let's see who our first YouTube commenting winner is today. Oh, Mike heard. Is he here today? I feel like he, I feel like he's been on a winning role lately. I don't see him here. So Mike has won, I think everything. But since he's not here, we can't ask him if he wants to give this to someone else. So we will say congratulations, Mike. Let us know what we need to send you. Email angelaeamooklaunchers.com and let her know what you'd like this prize to be. I think we have, as always, self publish and succeed. We have our hashtag no no boring. Try that again. Our hashtag, no boring. Books, mugs back in stock, as well as our journals. So those are your three prizes for today. And I just caught cake that's in the chat. That's the word that I saw is cake. Nothing else, just cake. I don't know what is going on in the chat, but there's cake. Okay, so that's funny. I'll have to read it in a minute and find out. But I just want to go back. Oops. I want to go back to the prizes and finish up with the YouTube. So we've given both of the prizes away right now, and. And then I can focus on people who are here live to give you guys my prizes. So the name picker is at work again, and our second prize winner is. Patty Rogers. Congratulations. So let us know what you would like us to send you. The mug, the journal, or the self publish and succeed. So email Angela@teamoklaunchers.com and let her know where she should send it and what she should send. Congratulations. Okay, so if you're here live and you're feeling sad that you haven't won yet, that's okay. We have prizes for you too, so make sure you've said hello. All right, let's see what this cake is all about. Okay, so. Oh, okay. So Efren is saying, I can relate to a growing book. And then Angela said, you take the cake, Efron for manuscript size, which is accurate. And now I know what the cake is for, so that's great. Okay. And then Patrick Kelly says, Charles delind once advised a friend of mine to just get up an hour earlier every day and work then, like me has. He has too many kids and too busy a life and not enough time when others are awake. Yes, that was my strategy too, with self publish and succeed. I got up at 5 and I wrote because my son typically Woke up about 6:15, 6:30. I have not had much success with that this time around. Like I said, I don't know if you heard me say, but my child seems to have a radar. And he gets up the minute I even think I might get up. It's like. He's like, boom. And he shows up in my room and he's like, mommy, is it six yet? And he looks at the clock. And now I can't lie to him because he can tell time. That's the thing about teaching your children things. Now I can't tell him, no, no, it's not six yet. Go back to sleep. Okay? I know more More information than you really needed to know about me. But I did used to tell my son, when it was, you know, just like 6, 15, I'd be like, no, it's not quite 6. It's not time to get up. And I try to get a few more minutes out of them, but now he looks at the clock and he reads it and he tells me that it's time to get up. So, comedians, actors and all, I'm writing my first book. Is there anything I should know? I normally write poetry. You should get Self Publish and Succeed. Let's see. I'll show you a copy right here. There we go. Self Publish and Succeed. You should get that. That's going to be your definitive guide to what you should do to write the book. And on top of it, I'll just show it because it's here we've got California Sports Astounding from Dan Sisko. This book came out, I don't know, a week or two ago, but I was checking it out today. I love the interior on this, by the way. I just. I know this is off topic, but I just think it's so fantastic. But also, I loved his acknowledgments because he acknowledged pretty much our entire team, which was really fun. And he said a sincere thanks to art goddess Cassandra Voors, who designed the COVID I love that art goddess. We're gonna tell her, Angela, that she has a new title. Okay, Kayla. Hello. Welcome. Welcome. Okay, so it was a tire shop. Thanks. Shock. I thought it was. Okay, let's go back to my list. So we're talking for all of you that have just joined in. Welcome. We're talking about five tips to get your book done. Tip number one was just stop worrying about making it good and just get the content out of your head onto your page. Don't. Tip number two was try different locations. Try to find a location that you just get your groove on. Because a lot of us don't test out enough locations, and there can be one that is really your spot, your thing. So test that out. Tip number three is you don't have to write in order. And I don't know if I said this at the beginning, actually before I dove into the tips, because I was just so excited to get into it. But you. You should have an outline, even if it's a loose outline. And that outline should be based on knowing your ideal reader and knowing that hook that you are, you know, that you've got in mind for them. And the hook, the way I've been talking about hooks lately, especially for nonfiction, is that outcome of the outcome. So you're not writing a book that's going to tell you all about California sports. You're writing a book that's going to make you appeal to your friends. When you go to the party, you've got all the trivia on every kind of fun sport stat. Sorry, I need to take a drink. Every kind of fun stat and tidbit on California sports history. So you're going to astound, amaze, be the center of attention at the next party you go to. Okay, so that's the hook of the book. So you want to define that hook and build your table of contents around that hook. You know, self publish and succeed. The hook isn't write a book. It's the no boring books way to write a non fiction book that sells. Our entire premise at Book Launchers is writing a book with marketing in mind and bringing marketing into the process early on. And so that's the hook of the book. It has a structure. I'd had a structure before I started writing it. Of all the steps that you're going to have to take, the new book was structured as far as like, you know, this is how to market your book to achieve your goals. So it's not necessarily focused solely on selling books, it's focused on using that book as a tool. And one of the metrics of that tool is book sales. And so how do you generate book sales, but also how do you generate more opportunities? And so that's the structure. But as I have dove into it, it has become a bigger and bigger topic. But having that outline gives you somewhere to start. Which leads me to tip number three. Even though you have an outline, you don't have to write it in order. There are some chapters that are going to be hard. For some writing about their personal story, it might be emotionally hard for others, it just might be material that you haven't fully digested or you haven't put it out into the world enough so that you have a way to share it so that it's, you know, easy to explain and consume for others. So it's going to take thinking work for you to explain it. And so those are harder chapters. And there are days when you should die into those harder chapters and just commit to it and get it done. But other days, you know, it's just a good time to go and pick an easy chapter that you know is going to flow from your brain onto the page and just write it so you don't have to write in order. Eventually you'll have to get it all in there. But just know that sometimes it's better to make great progress, knock out a few chapters and feel good about it. And you can always go back and tackle those harder chapters later, or when you're feeling it, you had a good sleep, you're fresh, you know you can get into it today. So those are times when you want to hit those harder chapters and really dig in. Tip number four is to borrow from yourself so you don't have to stare at a blank page. So most of us writing a book have this content or have some of this content in other forms, might be videos, it might be a speech, it might be an article, or articles or social media posts, but chances are you've talked about this somewhere before and you, you know, you've been interviewed on podcasts or you have your own podcast. So you can take some of that written, get it transcribed, get it so it's written, and put that on the page so you're not staring at a blank page. I find this really effective now, of course, you know, I create a lot of video content, so I have a lot of video scripts to draw from, and I find that a very effective way for me to not stare at a blank page. So, and I was just, I was talking about this yesterday or about this with the team today. That yesterday when I was writing, I, you know, I accomplished. I edited one full chapter, and then I also wrote 9,200 or 9,300 words, but some of those words came from video scripts, so I wasn't staring at a blank page. And I was talking about Goodreads was an example. And I also was talking about Amazon categories as well as metadata. And so those were all topics from video scripts that I took. And in the end, there's actually not much left of that video script, but it allowed me to just like, stare at it and go, oh, yeah, that's what I need to say. This is the story I need to add. This is the point I need to make. And having that script to draw from allowed me to hammer out a lot of content in what equated to about four and a half hours of writing time. So if you can borrow from yourself and if you don't have material but you are a better talker or more comfortable talking, record yourself talking, get it transcribed, or use one of the Voice2 text softwares that are on your computer and just get some text on the page so that you're not starting from scratch. Because I find that blank page can be really intimidating and, and throw in 500 words in there, wherever it came from just feels like progress and can really get you moving. So, yeah, that's, that's tip number four is borrow from yourself to get your book moving and not stare at a blank page. Number five is my favorite, so I saved her for last. And that's use a timer. So we've talked about writing sprints before. If you're watching this live, Angela will grab the link from YouTube and grab the writing sprints on how to do them and drop it in there. So if you missed that tip, I highly recommend you try out writing sprints. But that's not the only thing I use the timer for. I like to use the timer to basically tell myself I can't do anything else but write for this amount of time. And when the timer goes off, I have to get up, not just stop writing. I have to physically get up and leave my computer and take a break. So, you know, for me, I like the timer because. Sorry, for me, I like the writing sprints first because they trained, they've trained me to write a lot faster. I don't judge the words coming out of my head as much. I'm not pondering, like, what's going to be, you know, useful. I did notice yesterday that I used the word ultimately to start almost every sentence. So I was starting to judge that because I noticed that that was happening. I would write something and then ultimately, and then write something ultimately. So I was still judging my words as they were coming out of my brain. But I'm not pondering every word. I'm really writing sprints forces you to write fast, which forces you to stop evaluating the words as they're coming out. And that is a really good practice for you. It also can teach you to just type faster. So, so definitely add writing sprints in. But for me, a day like yesterday where I was doing a lot of focus writing, I didn't actually do any writing sprints. I took focus time periods. And when I first started in the morning, fresh, when I hadn't done anything else, my first time was an hour and 15 minutes and I only wrote. And that was, that was easy. Cause I was fresh. As the day went on, my sessions became 45 minute sessions and, and I was struggling a little bit to finish that last one. I looked at the timer a couple of times, but the timer gives me discipline because I look at the timer and I go, okay, there's only 11 minutes left. I can do this. I can Stay focused. And I'm not allowed to check email, check anything. I try to even stay off the Internet unless I really need to reference something. And I just keep writing. And so I find the timer is really, really valuable to force yourself to focus. I do find that 45 minutes is a pretty good time frame. And again, I have to emphasize this because I know human nature. 45 minutes, you don't stop and check your email. You stop, get up, and go do something else. Come back after you've had a snack, you've gotten some sunlight, whatever it is, like a 10, 15 minute break. Come back, sit down, do another 45 minutes if you can. If you check email, here's what will probably happen. There'll be something there that makes you mad, makes you happy, makes you something. And now you've lost your emotional focus on the book and you've gone down some other place. It can also just suck energy into that email instead of keeping it for your book. And even though it can feel like, oh, I'm just curious, oh, I won't do anything with it, it's that emotional distraction or that mental distraction that can happen. You'll get an email, you'll be like, oh, I'm going to have to reply to that. And now your brain is thinking about that email instead of working on your book. So I highly recommend you stay off of the email and turn notifications off as much as possible so that you're staying focused on your book during your writing time. So cool. Let's do prizes for those who are here live. All right. Oh, Mindful Eats says, was it borrow from yourself? Yes, it was borrow from yourself. So it was. I'll recap all five tips right now. Okay. Number one is lose the mindset that your book has to be good. Your first draft. So it's first draft is a bad first draft. Tip number two was test different locations. Tip number three was you don't have to write in order. Tip number four was borrow from yourself so you're not staring at a blank page. And tip number five was use a timer. So those were the five tips. Okay. Okay. I'll come back to your comments after. So the first prize today is tell me what tip I didn't say that you use to get your book done. So what is an additional tip that you use? And go ahead and post that in the comments. And I'll pick my favorite and. And Green wizards in the house. Hello. Welcome. So good to see you here. Ron and Cat Lind. Hello. Great to see you here too. And I'll go back and read the. Oh, and Deborah Lynn or Deborah Lloyd, I should say not Kat. I combined you and Kat. Deborah, great to see you here. Okay. And then as always, we are going to do a number prize. So I'm going to go backwards from Bridget or Bridget. Don't know. We'll go with Bridget. We'll say the. The North American pronunciation. So Bridget going up, Angela. So going up from Bridget. Well, gee, it's only May 3rd. That's an easy one. So let's do. Let's do. I'm trying to think of another number. Ah, let's go with 22. Because it's 2022. So let's go 22 up from Bridget. Okay, Angela, for our other prize. Okay, let's catch up on what you guys have been talking about. Okay, so it looks like mind mapping is great. Pre outline practice. That's a great tip. Thanks, Efraim. And oh, Jacques is asking how you win prizes, participation. So hopefully you're posting. Okay. And. And Anthony asked for me to repeat caption for tip four. I did that. Oh, and it's Jackie. Oh, sorry, I'm calling you Jacques. Oh dear. Thank you for telling me. So Jackie got it. And was it borrowed from yourself? Okay, Efren's talking about his mind mapping. So topic in the center. Mind dump what you have to say in bubbles all around it. Then finger points to elaborate under each bubble. Finer points, not finger points. So finer points under each to elaborate under each bubble. Bubbles become your chapters, then outline and organize. Cool. Good tips. Thank you. And Angela, put the writing sprints video in there. Any thoughts on the War of Art by Pressfield as a supplement to your work? Yes, I love that book. I actually quote the War of Art by Steven Pressfield a lot because he talks about the basically all the things that come up that seem like really logical reasons why you have to stop or you can't do your art. As he's talking about. And you know, it's life, right? It's everything that comes up in our lives that is really trying to just stop you from being great, doing great things and having an impact. And it's ultimately the person who can carve their way around all the things that come up and still create and kind of, you know, just steal from Seth Godin as well. You know, just ship it, right? It's kind of that person who can get over all the obstacles, go around the obstacles, find a way and still deliver. At the end of the day, they're the ones that succeed. But the War of Art is a fantastic book. I highly recommend it. I don't know. It's such a little easy read too. If it's not. Here it is. I've got his other one. Oh, here it is. He has another one called Turning Pro. So here we go. And I often reference the War of Art as well because it's. It breaks all the rules. So here's what I mean. Grab a page here. So the chapters. I've even got one flagged here. Oh, the resistance. If resistance couldn't be beaten, there would be no 5th Symphony, no Romeo and Juliet, no Golden Gate Bridge. Defeating resistance is like giving birth. It seems absolutely impossible until you remember that women have been pulling it off successfully, with support and without for 50 million years. But that's a chapter, so. Or whatever you want to call it, a section in his book. So he also breaks all the rules as far as you know how big like each of those sections they are. So really great book. And then also Turning Pro is also a great read by his. I reference them all the time. Okay, let's see. And Kat, thank you for sending people our way. We always appreciate new people joining our community. And Angela said, jackie, I now know how to pronounce your name. So thank you. Jackie is the 22nd comment back, so. Because we don't count Angela's comments. So congratulations. Let us know if you would like a copy of Self publish and succeed or we have. I don't have any of the other things here, I don't think but we have an oh so soft journal or a hashtag no boring books mug where people have told me coffee, tea, hot chocolate and I think somebody even said whiskey all taste better in the mug. So it is a powerful mug to have on hand if you don't have it. So let Angela know by emailing her@teamoklaunchers.com what you' like. If you are outside of North America, we do have to send you Self publish and Succeed. We've had some customs issues with some of the other things. So we've just said outside of North America, we'll send you a copy of the book. Okay. And let's see, I gotta go back to your guys's tips. So great tips. Writing a book now, plus working full time in a definite crunch. Yeah, I know the feeling. Music notes. Note to self, don't click on YouTube link while watching YouTube. Yes, that happens that. That takes you out, doesn't it? Okay, so lose mindset locations. Oh, so Deborah was just recapping. Okay, let's See, I use the motivation of what will happen to mothers if I don't write my book. I love that. Focusing on your reader and the impact that you want to have on them when your book comes out is really powerful. And so if you're not writing your book, you're not getting it done, you're not having that impact. So that can be a really great way to motivate yourself to get that book out there and done. Mindful Eat says to get words down, sit at my writing table, and don't move until I write something. That's a good tip too. That's kind of what I do with my timer is like, until that timer goes off, I'm not allowed to do anything else. And I'm quite a very strict boss on that. So I did, I did break it once. Yesterday a delivery came and I looked at my timer and I had 2 minutes and 30 seconds. So I was like, yeah, and I bailed. But other than that, I was very disciplined. So let's see. Anthony says, sometimes I find that I need to clear my head. So I drive for an hour or two, and when I get back to the desk, I usually find it easier to write. Great tips. One of the things I often tell my team when they're struggling with something is to go for a walk, because I think getting out and getting your mind away from whatever problem you're trying to solve or whatever you're working on can be a really, really great strategy. I haven't tried the driving thing, but I think just getting out can be really, really effective. Let's see. Deborah said, I wrote all the topics on post it, notes, organized it, and outlined chapters. That was cool. I like that tip. There's some love for the oh so soft journal and. Yes. And Mindful Eats said, I'm still flabbergasted at the cost of posting to Northern Ireland. You were robbed? Yes. That's why we no longer ship to outside of North America. It is a little bit crazy what we've paid and some people have even had to pay customs on top of what we've paid. So, yes, as much as we love all of our international YouTube friends, we've had to draw the line for a variety of things. So, Deborah Lloyd. I did write a suggestion. I wrote the last chapter first. Oh, perfect. Start with the last chapter. That's a great tip. Sorry I missed it in there. And Kat says, I go to the yard and pull weeds when I need to clear my head. And then cpom. Do you write in a journal or do you use a word processor? I always use a word processor because I can move things around. I can, I can edit, I can delete, and I'm much faster. I can type incredibly fast and I write quite slow. I never took to handwriting, so I'm one of those people who like has a hybrid print writing thing that's really slow. So plus, it's hard to read as I get going, it's hard to read what I've written. So me personally, I know some people who hand write and I actually got somebody who sent a manuscript. I won't show very much of it, but somebody sent me their manuscript in the mail today. I don't know who they are, but it all written. So some people do write their books in handwriting. Okay, so I think that was it for today. I want to make a couple quick announcements. We have a deep dive coming up on May 21st, and this is going to be a really cool deep dive. I have invited a guest expert to join us. I met him at the National Speakers association and like, we just, we connected. And he has been on, I think I'm going to say somewhere between 500 to 800 news television, TV shows. And so he's kind of an expert guest. He's also, he's also partnered with someone and they help people get on television. So he's going to get on this deep dive to help share how to pitch yourself to media, and he'll give you tips on how to perform, how to get invited back, how to build relationships with the producers. It's going to be a really, really fantastic deep dive. And Sarah Bean, our book marketing manager, will be the host. I hope to attend, but I scheduled all of it and then got notified that it's my son's preschool graduation. So I cannot miss my son's preschool graduation. But it should be over in time for me to join you guys for the last half of the deep dive. But you'll want to register for that@book launchers.com forward/deep dive. And that is May 21st from 10am Pacific to 12 noon. And I think that was the main thing. Oh, and we are having a price increase June 1st. So if you're waiting to work with us, I would say May is a great month to reach out and learn about and talk about working with us and anybody. There's lots of clients here. Don't worry, your price never changes. So once you're in, you're in. So your price will stay the same. So you're good. But anybody who is not already working with us. Who wants to. The price is going up and quite a bit because we have added so much stuff that our costs are higher than what we're charging currently, which is not a sustainable business strategy. So we're raising prices to get in line, actually, with our costs as well as with our value because our value with everything that we've added is. Is tremendous. So. So, yeah, that's happening June 1st. So if you want to reach out to us, the best thing to do is to fill out an application at Book Launchers. Oh, I don't know. I see. I see a swear. So I think it got frozen. That's funny. I'll just put it in here. So book launchers.com application if you want to talk to us about working with us. But I think that's it for today. Let's see what other things are in here. Patrick says, I've started carrying a journal with me everywhere. Since I'm writing nonfiction, I just start a paragraph a la the spac. I don't know how to say that name. On topic X and I can group all the topics together. That's great. I always have a piece of paper in my pocket so I can write down inspirations because I forget things. That's great. I love that. Let's see. Going for a walk is known as the Einstein method, and it works. Thanks, Clayton. I didn't know that, but I love it. I think going for a walk already works and cat is already registered, and that's funny. And Kat says, I guess I won't be waiting for the house to have the rebuild finished before contacting you. Well, you can. We're still great value at the new price. But you know, if you're thinking about working with us, now is a great time. I think that's it for today. So thank you so much for joining me. We'll be back here again in two weeks, and if you're watching the replay and you've got topic suggestions, let me know because I don't have a topic planned yet for two weeks from now. So I look forward to seeing you all again then, and thank you for joining me today. Bye.