Three Ways to Make Resistance Irrelevant and Win the Struggle to Create and Market Your Art
You can read the blog in order, or refresh this page for three more articles about Resistance and writing and the struggle to create and market art.
Everything You Need to Know About Self-Publishing & Marketing and I Didn’t Write It
This is the book you were looking for.
Write. Publish. Repeat. is the book I was writing, in fact. Except I didn’t write it. A couple even more experienced and successful guys beat me to the punch.
Barring my note below, this is the book I was writing. Mine was going to be called Commonsense Zero-Cost DIY Marketing for Authors.
Try as I might, I can’t find a reason to invest the time and creative energy into duplicating a book that already exists.
How I Write
Or, more accurately, how I begin the process of moving toward my books.
Planning is a left-brain process. Creativity has to have a healthy dose of right brain. You need both. The apocryphal Hemingwayesque “write drunk, edit sober.”
Here’s a very short version of my story-generating process, which thus far has given me good results blending left and right, analytical and creative: (more…)
Making Progress on My Marketing Book
In two days we have transmogrified three-quarters of a page of notes into nearly nine-thousand words, making up the first two chapters of Commonsense Zero-Cost DIY Marketing for Authors.
It’s going to be a real push to launch the book on January 1st as I had hoped.
I’m not certain I’m going to make it. I am certain I’m still going to try.