New Writers’ Tip of the Day
Today's most important take-away for you!
Today's most important take-away for you!
It's a well-known fact in big-time writer circles that sometimes I get down, maybe sometimes a little depressed.
And when I do, the only thing that cheers me up is pulling out my old copy of The Grapes of Wrath and having a chuckle. Unless the 1940 Henry Fonda version is playing on TV when that is good for me too.
At any rate, this morning, as I was trying to wake up, I accidentally channeled John Steinbeck himself. He had a word for new authors for me to deliver.
I did think this quite an odd occurrence, but after thinking about it for several minutes, I tended to lean towards its validity. As he spoke to the new breed of authors everywhere, he cried out…
For God’s sake, new authors… if you’ve only got a couple of creative paragraphs in ye, use them on your LANDING PAGE!
I did not realize I could channel people so easily, and I never knew Steinbeck was Irish, but it all started to make sense to me.
A popular concept these days is that of the 80–20 rule.
Spend 80% of your time promoting your work. Spend 20% of your time actually writing it.
In these days of print on demand, even though you eliminate editors, printers rejection letters, and your literary agent, you will be forced to learn to format, and that’s another 80% of your time. It all adds up.
So you have to ask yourself, do I write for the glory, or the money, or just to hear another lame Irish accent?
Let your heart decide, and either turn on Scrivener or Facebook.
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