Knowing your end game is the best strategy for directing your steps right now. Sometimes we get so focused on current projects and the steady acceptance of others, we fail to ask, ”Is what I’m doing in line with my goals?” Three questions to ask yourself when looking at the writing road ahead.
If we’re writing for humans, we need to accept that some won’t like our writing, our style, our topic, our work. It’s a momentary sting to the soul for sure, but don’t let it de-rail you from your passion and prose.
Several times a month, writers ask me, “How can I balance blogging, Tweeting, Facebooking, Goodreading, and all the other stuff I’m supposed to do to build my platform, while also focusing on my writing? I have a full time job, a family, and a cat. I just don’t have time for all that other stuff.”
Writers today are overwhelmed, frustrated, and let’s be honest, a little pissed off. Why do we have to build a platform anyway? Can’t we just focus on writing?
This month, we’re partnering with Story Cartel to host the Covering the Classics Contest (wow, that’s a lot of C’s), a contest to re-imagine the covers of ten classic books. This is part of Story Cartel’s new book club, an online community to read and discuss the classic books of yesteryear.
By the way, if you want to brush up on the classics, plus get ten classic books completely free, you should check out the Story Cartel Book Club.
If you could re-imagine the covers of classic books, what would they look like? This is your chance to put your personal mark on some of the world’s most revered books. Sound interesting? Read on for the rules…
Are you on Twitter? If you’re a writer and you’re not using the social media source, you should probably change that.
I think most of us writers are frugal people. The other day, I wanted to pick up the latest Robert Greene book, Mastery, only to discover to my dismay it was $14.99. ”$15 for an ebook?!” I thought. I still bought it (it’s worth it, by the way), but I was cringing inside.
This is why Cyber Monday is so great. Frugal people like us can get so many great deals while avoiding Black Friday’s rabid hordes.
Here are three deals you might want to pay attention to today.
