Author Dr. Nancy Napier: 5 Things You Need to Know to Become a Great Author

Find a routine that works. For my first major book project, which was to write four chapters for an academic book, I hid away for a month and had a daily routine: mornings for writing, afternoons for editing, evenings for reading. I played on the weekends. As life got complicated (bigger job, children, travel), I adapted the routine but its guts still hold, for the most part. It’s mine; you’ll need to find your own.

As part of my interview series on the five things you need to know to become a great author, I had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Nancy Napier.

Dr. Nancy K. Napier is a Distinguished Professor Emerita and former Director of the Centre for Creativity and Innovation at Boise State University’s College of Business and Economics. In 2018 she received Vietnam’s Friendship Medal, the highest award given to a foreigner, for her contribution to building bridges between the countries that began with her management of Boise State’s nine-year capacity-building project at the National Economics University in Hanoi…