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The following is a excerpt from the exclusive AudioMotivation interview with Dr. Joe Vitale - He is the author of a number of books, including the #1 best-selling book "Spiritual Marketing," the best-selling e-book "Hypnotic Writing," and the best-selling Nightingale-Conant audioprogram, "The Power of Outrageous Marketing."

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Now, so many of us kind of go through life with the dream of writing that novel or just getting started on any kind of writing. If you had to sum up a few quick tips for somebody like that who wants to write a book or start their writing career whether it&#39s syndicated or whatever, what are some ideas to put those dreams into play for them?

JOE VITALE
Yeah, that&#39s a great question. I&#39ll tell you the easiest thing to do and it might seem so simplistic, but it&#39s so powerful, is to just get started. I have found that the big stumbling block with people in any walk of life that&#39s trying to do anything is they&#39re listening to their voice of doubt. They&#39re listening to their inner critic.

When it comes to writing, when ...
... people tell me they&#39re in a writer&#39s block or they&#39re having difficulty writing, when I explore it a little bit, I find out that they&#39re listening to the editorial voice within themselves.

They&#39re listening to that voice that says, "Who are you to do this or you don&#39t have the time to do this or this probably won&#39t pay off or what if you do it and it fails or what if you do it and it works and it succeeds?"

All of those questions, all of those doubts, all of that criticism stops people from doing the fundamental thing that needs to be done and that is take action.

So I would say there&#39s at least two tips here for this short question and answer. Be aware of that voice inside of you that&#39s talking you out of doing what you want to do and treat this like a meditation.

You&#39ll listen to the voice, but you don&#39t necessarily pay attention to it. You just kind of say oh, okay, you&#39re there again. Thanks and we&#39ll talk to you later and basically let it go its way. And it loses that power over you in time as you practice that.

And the second is, just start doing it. For example, if you want to write a book, the easiest thing to do is to sit down and start typing. You have to keep in mind that all you have to do is write your first draft. You don&#39t have to write the book flawlessly.

You don&#39t have to write the book perfectly to anybody&#39s expectations. All you have to do is get the words on the paper or on the keyboard. Then, when you&#39re done with your first draft, you can go back and edit it, refine it, retune it, delete things, add new pieces.

Then you can have select people review it or an editor review it, but you can take it one step at a time and it doesn&#39t have to be done perfectly. It doesn&#39t have to ever be done perfectly. I think that&#39s another thing that stumps people is the idea that it has to be perfect and perfect is a relative term. There is no such thing as perfection. None of us agree on that.

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Well, I&#39m sorry, I read something where during that first draft process, you shouldn&#39t edit at all, like you shouldn&#39t stop yourself to edit and people I think are tempted to do that quite a bit. Is that what you have found?

JOE VITALE
Yeah, that&#39s a great secret to flawless, easy writing. The great secret is, do not edit when you are writing your first draft. I&#39ve written about this in Hypnotic Writing. In fact, I&#39ve created a whole software helping people to write books and articles. It&#39s called Hypnotic Writing Wizard and the Hypnotic Writing Wizard, you can have this cool little device on it where you can, it will shut down your monitor for a scheduled period of time.

While you write, it will retain everything that you&#39re writing and the whole purpose for this is if you can&#39t see what you&#39re writing, it disconnects that editorial part of you. You can&#39t edit it because you can&#39t see it. So this is just one of the tools in Hypnotic Writing Wizard to help you do what you just explained that if you&#39re editing, you&#39re not going to write or you&#39re not going to enjoy your writing. You&#39re not going to be very creative at it. Turn off the editorial voice.

* Excerpted from the AudioMotivation Interview with Joe Vitale Copyright © 2005 Josh Hinds About Josh: Josh Hinds & Andy O&#39Bryan co-founded AudioMotivation, which includes success sessions with famous motivational speakers, trainers, business experts & best-selling authors - to see for yourself why motivational speaker & author Joe Tye said about AudioMotivation, "...it&#39s how I charge my battery in the afternoon" & why it&#39s also been called the "...motivational website for our future world leaders" go to http://AudioMotivation.com