This episode, Kent Sanders explains how to build positive writing habits, structure your routine, and avoid procrastination.
Kent Sanders is a ghostwriter who helps leaders grow their business through books and other content.
Kent explains the similarities between ghostwriters and grant writers, what grant writers can do to increase their productivity, and the benefits of writing your own book.
He also talks about the positive habits grant writers can build, how to structure your writing routine to improve your productivity, and get people to buy into your mission.
What you’ll learn in this episode:
- How to build positive writing habits.
- How to get people to buy into your mission.
- What ghostwriters do and why people use ghostwriters.
- The similarities between ghostwriting and grant writing.
- The benefits of writing your own book.
- Daily habits grant writers can use to avoid procrastination.
- What makes somebody a writer.
- How to structure your writing routine to improve your productivity.
About Kent Sanders
Kent Sanders is the founder of Inkwell Ghostwriting, which helps leaders grow their business through books and other content. He is also the author and co-author of numerous books, including 18 Words to Live By: A Father’s Wisdom on What Matters Most and co-author of The Faith of Elvis: A Story Only a Brother Can Tell with Billy Stanley, Elvis Presley’s stepbrother.
In addition to writing books for himself and his clients, Kent loves to help other writers. He is the host of the Daily Writer podcast and the founder of the Daily Writer Club, a membership community that helps writers build a business with their skills. He lives near St. Louis with his wife and son.
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Quotables:
- “Nonprofits are now writing books because it’s another way they can get their message and vision out there.”
- “Writing is a team sport, we do the bulk of it as individuals but when we bring other people into the process we can make it a lot better.”
- “You don’t have to invent anything from scratch. Whatever you’re trying to write there’s someone out there whose already done it really well.”
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