New Medium Writers Can Become Filthy Rich
If they truly wish.
I know how you feel.
I have been there.
I wanted to throw some words on a page, sit back, and make out my bank deposit slips.
But, it’s not like collecting stamps.
When I did that, I stayed neat and pressed all the time. Never got out of breath or worked up a sweat.
Writing is not like that.
To succeed to any real degree, you have to get down and get dirty doing it. Every day- not just when the stamps you ordered came in.
Keeping tidy seems to diminish your results.
How I do writing in the real world
I know I do not come close in comparison to many of the other medium writers, if not most, but I know in your heart, that the reason you are reading this is because we are all voyeurs to some degree. We hope to see how another does it, hoping to find that one quick secret we can employ in our own process.
I rise early and am at my keyboard before the sun is up.
I work for a couple of hours, and then stop and try to clean up the mess I have made, making it look civilized and edited
Then I go to my other job. Any time I get during the day, I will spend reading other writers, I guess always searching for that elusive secret sauce that will propel my stories into the stratosphere, instead of leaving me here in also-ran mediocrity.
Last thoughts.
Throughout the day I always have my composition book with me continually jotting down two things- 1) more stories that need to be written, and 2) more ideas I need to try in order to keep getting better and/or smarter.
Tomorrow we start over. It’s that simple.
I am not saying that I am filthy rich yet, but I’m getting there.
Thanks for reading!
-don
Don’s a keen observer and prolific reporter of truth, common sense, humor, & life. He’s a WRITER|HUMORIST, sometimes serious, sometimes tongue-in-cheek. He lives in Nashville, TN. He publishes somewhere every weekday morning. Click HERE, and have his new stories emailed directly to you, instead of having to beat the bushes for them.