e writing one step at a time, little by little,” she said, “but not necessarily in the chapter order the book will be.” Browne actually wrote her first chapterYou’ve decided to write a book, and now you are staring a blank computer screen, not really knowing where to begin. You have great ideas and you sort of know what you want to say—but a whole book seems so….well…big.

The easiest way to manage a bigger writing project is to break it down into smaller pieces. Laura Browne, author of Why Can’t You Communicate Like Me? How Smart Women Get Results at Work, remembers categorizing her book ideas first into sections, and then she broke each section into chapters. If she focused on a particular chapter or on the ideas in the chapter, she found writing much more manageable. “Just take the writing one step at a time, little by little,” she said, “but not necessarily in the chapter order the book will be.” Browne actually wrote her first chapter,

at you want to say—but a whole book seems so….well…big.

The easiest way to manage a bigger writing project is to break it down into smaller pieces. Laura Browne, author of Why Can’t You Communicate Like Me? How Smart Women Get Results at Work, remembers categorizing her book ideas first into sections, and then she broke each section into chapters. If she focused on a particular chapter or on the ideas in the chapter, she found writing much more manageable. “Just take the writing one step at a time, little by little,” she said, “but not necessarily in the chapter order the book will be.” Browne actually wrote her first chapter

Browne, author of Why Can’t You Communicate Like Me? How Smart Women Get Results at Work, remembers categorizing her book ideas first into sections, and then she broke each section into chapters. If she focused on a particular chapter or on the ideas in the chapter, she found writing much more manageable. “Just take the writing one step at a time, little by little,” she said, “but not necessarily in the chapter order the book will be.” Browne actually wrote her first chaptere broke each section into chapters. If she focused on a particular chapter or on the ideas in the chapter, she found writing much more manageable. “Just take the writing one step at a time, little by little,” she said, “but not necessarily in the chapter order the book will be.” Browne actually wrote her first chaptere writing one step at a time, little by little,” she said, “but not necessarily in the chapter order the book will be.” Browne actually wrote her first chapter, and then worked a middle section of the book, and then went back and rewrote her first chapter. Then she focused on another section of the book, and then rewrote parts of the first chapter again.

Taking your book or script or play idea-by-idea or scene-by-scene is more psychologically stimulating than staring at the screen and saying, “Ugh! I have 120 pages or 70,000 words to go.”

And once you’ve started the writing process, it is important to get feedback from like-minded people. Find a writer’s group where you can share your work with supportive, but honest humans pursuing the same craft—but not necessarily the same g