Part 6 (of 6) the World Needs Your Words
HERE’S WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT DIY-ING YOUR COPY:
Part 5 (of 6) You Can DIY Your Own Copy
A great writing coach will help you do the writing, not do it for you.
To finish your writing projects, you may need to go on an information and course diet.
A writing community will challenge you to do your writing and share it — again and again.
Whether you’re sharing your work in a private forum or with a writing coach in a Google Doc, it can feel frightening at first.
If you’ve never shared your writing with anyone, it can feel like you’re going to die. First, know that you’re not. This is your primal brain doing its job to protect you. What happens is that our nervous system perceives a threat and then our fight or flight response kicks in.
The next time this happens, notice what’s happening in your body. It can mean that your heart races, your palms sweat, and you have an uncontrollable urge to run and hide.
When you pause and notice what’s happening for you, you’ll bring awareness to the physical reaction and be able to take action.
Stay open, answer questions, and then listen. That’s all you need to do. You can sit with the feedback for a few days or jump right in if the suggestions felt great for you.
Great feedback is about keeping you moving, not critiquing.
A big-hearted coach may pick up on a stray typo or share a best practice and give you the option to fix it.
They’re also not going to throw anything at you if you decline their suggestions.
Most importantly, no one has ever died from sharing their writing with a writing coach.
The world doesn’t need your perfect prose. It needs your words. It needs you to create the impact you want to see in the world.
Most writing communities are built in 1 of 3 ways:
For book writers and authors not for business owners and business writing
For people to give each other feedback with no expert guidance
Only an expert gives advice without any feedback from the community
The Write Like a MOFO Community is a new and different solution to this.
A blend of business owners with a variety of backgrounds who give each other feedback, and seek feedback and structure from a facilitator and coach.
You need accountability to finish hard-to-write pieces.
You need support to guide your positioning or tone.
You need a safe space to get writing done.
You need to stop self-editing and start writing.
You need to write, edit launch, learn, iterate — and repeat.
You can do this.
It doesn’t take as much time as you think to improve your writing skills — you’re wasting more time obsessing over the writing or procrastinating on writing than actually writing.
Writing your own copy isn’t as hard as you think. Even if you’re not a writer, weren’t trained as a writer, or prefer spreadsheets, paint, or a big stage.
You need expert guidance and coaching to help you tune into the words that are already within you, help you get them out, and organize them on the page.
You need to be around other entrepreneurs doing similar things.
You learn from experts, but your peers will help you integrate the lessons into your daily work.
You’ll learn so much more from the questions of others — about things you didn’t know to even ask.
You’ll get ideas and inspiration from other creatives in different industries that you never would have imagined.
You’ll get energy from other business owners and a coach who holds the sacred space for you to write.
Imagine publishing your website copy, sales page, email nurture sequence, webinar copy (and everything in between) in record time because you put your head down, wrote the thing, and had expert copywriting eyes to review it with you live.
You can finally show up as the badass business owner you know you can be.
With words that feel good and sound like you.
Like a wittier, funnier, louder, smarter version of yourself. Words you’re proud of and can’t wait to show off because your words have been vetted by your very own writing coach.
The world needs you and your words.
Learn more about the Write Like a MOFO community.
Here’s to you, getting your words out onto the page, and confidently sharing them with the world.
