Shaunta Grimes

The Founder of Ninja Writers teaches you how to create income streams on your way to becoming a working writer.* * *There are six core types of income streams. Once you learn how to analyze your skills, experience, and resources, you’ll start to see them everywhere. Tapping these streams gives you the freedom to put your energy toward writing—without the pressure of expecting it to fully support you from word one.The real answer to the question of how to be a writer has an easy answer. If you’re a writer, everything you do is part of your job. You aren’t a writer only when you write, any more than a doctor is only a doctor when they treat a patient.That means that everything you do, you do as a writer. Wrap your head around that and everything changes.More than 20 years ago, Shaunta Grimes decided that being a writer was her real work. Even when that work didn’t earn anything, it was how how she identified herself. Everything else was an income stream that served her writing career—including regular day jobs that kept her family fed.Today, she’s a full-time writer with books published by major publishers. She also owns an online writing school and community with more than 100,000 followers. (Ninja Writers is her favorite side hustle!) Creating income streams is how she got there. It’s how you can get where you want to go, too.* * *Praise for Write a How to Outline a Book in Three Hours by Shaunta Grimes5 out of 5 stars“Shaunta writes in a friendly, conversational tone. I thought the title was misleading and i'd never be able to do it, but guess what? My novel is plotted and it took 3 hours. And was fun to boot. This little book needs to be in the writer's tool box of everyone who has carried around a germ of an idea for decades and could never figure out how to get it on paper!”

A middle-grade novel about a girl searching for her father and the boy who helps her find him. Gideon hates the idea of moving to Nevada from the East Coast. It's so empty and hot in his new neighborhood. Only one person his age lives nearby: the girl next door, Roona. Gid notices right away that Roona is . . . different. She wears roller skates and a blanket as a cape when she needs to feel strong. What he doesn't bargain for, however, is how far outside his comfort zone Roona will take him as she enlists his help in finding her long-gone father. For a kid who's not allowed to ride his bike more than a few blocks from home, this will be the adventure of a lifetime. Friendship, heartbreak, and defining what family means are rarely as sensitively, beautifully portrayed in middle-grade fiction. Shaunta Grimes is an extraordinary new talent.