STEP 5: KEEP YOURSELF ACCOUNTABLE There are many ways to keep yourself accountable, but the best and most reliable method we’ve seen is to post your daily word count. We recommend all of our authors in the Scribe Guided Author pro- gram do this in our private Facebook Group. By doing this, you get all the benefits of accountability: 1. The daily push to ensure you actually sit down and write your 250 words. 2. The encouragement that comes from everyone else for getting it done. 3. The habit gets built by doing the work, and then posting about it. NOTE: FOCUS ON WHAT WORKS What I just laid out for you is a tested, proven method. It will work. That doesn’t make it the “right” method. There is no “right” method. The only “right” method of writing is the one that works for you. For example, we have one author who can only write by sitting in his Tesla while it is charging in his garage, putting a specific playlist on his phone, plugging in earbuds, and turning up the volume. He knows he has forty-five minutes of charge time to get his work done, and he makes the most of that window. There is only the method that WORKS for you. ALWAYS feel free to use what works. So if any part of this feels off, substitute what makes more sense for you. That being said—unless you KNOW you have a method that works better for you—assume what I’m telling you is the best way to do it. Our writing plan is based both on decades of experience with actual authors, and the best empirical data about how authors succeed. hOW TO CrEATE yOUr BOOk WriTiNg PlAN · 131