More Observations On Becoming a Big Shot Writer
960 stories later, no overnight success stories here.
Good morning my strange and esoteric group.
My name is Don, and I sit here much of the time, and go on and on about stupid stuff. Some people are amused. Some spit on the ground.
I know some of you only subscribed for the all-electric kitchen and the pony, and you may be fighting the urge to unsubscribe, at least long enough to get your goodies, just in case I really am the jerk I seem to be, grasping for any reason not to deliver on your expectations.
I must say “extra chewy defecation” to you, because it’s too late.
UPS is dropping a load on your front porch even as we speak.
So go ahead and unsubscribe. I hope your rash clears up.
Enough of the introduction. Now on to the definitions.
I am a writer. A free-lance writer. Which means I could drop a novel as quick as I could write a “how-to” on frying kale for Martha Stewart. We free lancers know no rules and have no boundaries.
I’m a 1099 in a world of W2s.
But moreover, I am an instructor, a teacher and coach to the rough crowd of writers. I won’t teach you to write well, as much as I’ll teach you to write like me.
more soon
I can’t write as much as I want to.
You can’t do everything at once, but you can do one thing at once and build from there.
Set up your systems and to-do lists.
Any listed scheduled and measured can be tweaked, listed, scheduled, and measured again for comparison.
You are the niche.
C.J.Chilvers says, “There is no competition for your voice.” Don Martin, real-life writer
The following was published by me in Medium, on Jul 22, 2022.
I’ve got to be honest with you. It was pretty simple.
My high school English teachers didn’t think I would ever amount to much.
My dad thought I was trying to be a big shot.
And worst of all….
I didn’t write my stories.
No, I didn’t plagiarize them; they wrote themselves.