Harnessing the Unlikely Power Of Quitting to Achieve Ghostwriting Success

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Procrastination is the key to becoming a prolific and crazy successful writer

Well…it’s to procrastinate quitting.

Here’s a story from a fellow writer. Let’s just call her “Marge.”

In the middle of a lousy week, Marge was not feeling it. Not feeling like picking up her pen. Not feeling what she says is her passion. Just not feeling being a writer anymore.

She sent me a text, and it simply said, “I’m gonna quit, Rick. This kinda sucks.”

I replied, “Cool, sounds like a plan. But wait until you at least knocked out 200 words today. It would be lame not to get that little project done for me as you said and leave me hanging”

She agreed to do those silly 200 words.

Here’s the thing, because once she finished those 200 words, she didn’t want to quit anymore. She wasn’t feeling as beat down after that. And that seemingly endless feeling of dismay she was experiencing had, well, ended and been surmounted.

Marge didn’t quit.

She moved on to the next day and the next project on her calendar. She woke up, pulled on her big-girl…