Browsing Tag 'Motivation'
If you want to write consistently and thoroughly, you must learn to make writing your job, regardless of whether it has anything to do with your income. It must be what you think of at different times throughout the day, even when you’re doing other things. You may have heard the advice about carrying a [...]
Resist comparing yourself to others. When you find yourself doing it — pull yourself back, pray, meditate, practice mindfulness or whatever you do to find calm, and remind yourself of all the reasons comparison is futile.” Read full article @ Rachelle Gardner »»» AD: FROM FREE TO BOOK – Get your book published and into [...]
An uninhibited imagination. — If we’ve learned anything as a society over the past few decades, it’s that life is changing faster and faster with every passing day. The world tomorrow looks nothing like the world today. And the people with big imaginations are the ones not just living it, they are creating it.” Read [...]
…King’s literary agent, Chuck Verrill, called Ardai to say that King had received the blurb request through his accountant and wanted to pass on a message to Ardai. ‘Steve asked me to call you. He wants me to let you know that he does not want to write you a blurb.’ Ardai replied, ‘That’s completely [...]
You can achieve success in your writing in many ways. You can use the Law of Attraction to have the words come to you and flow effortlessly onto the page. You can use it to secure new clients. To find better ways to complete an assignment. Or to overcome any obstacle and finish that manuscript [...]
It’s something that is often met with a derisory look when you mention that you’re going to self-publish a book. It still has a reputation for being the easy route, or dare I say it, the failures route… [W]hen you tell people that you’ll be self-publishing their immediate reaction is to assume that you’re not good [...]
Maybe you’ve watched other bloggers launch their ebooks, and you want to do the same — but something’s holding you back… You keep telling yourself that you will write an ebook someday… just not yet. And it’s almost certainly the case that one of the seven common fears in this article is holding you back.” Read [...]
By Sadie Wilson This post first appeared on the Studio30 Plus blog and is reprinted here with permission. I grew up knowing I wanted to be a writer. I never made it. I did many other important things that distracted me. I had children and kept them from being pecked off by vultures I eventually [...]
Here is this week’s Friday installment of the Wordpreneur Reader, with links to articles elsewhere I found informative and useful. Enjoy, go forth and learn, Grasshopper! Android Increases U.S. Market Share to 52 Percent (Mashable) — “The two most popular mobile platforms now have a collective market share of 85.6%, leaving all other competitors in [...]
Here is this week’s Tuesday installment of the Wordpreneur Reader, with links to articles elsewhere I found informative and useful. Enjoy, go forth and learn, Grasshopper! Amish fiction: Put a bonnet on it (Salon) — “Forget ’50 Shades of Grey’ — Amish fiction is hot, and a woman in a headcover means an instant bestseller.” [...]
Here is this week’s Friday installment of the Wordpreneur Reader, with links to articles elsewhere I found informative and useful. Enjoy, go forth and learn, Grasshopper! Amazon Changed Reading. Now It Could Change Writing (Fast Company) — “Amazon introduced a subscription book format at a press conference in Los Angeles Thursday. These books, called ‘Kindle [...]
Here is this week’s Tuesday installment of the Wordpreneur Reader, with links to articles elsewhere I found informative and useful. Enjoy, go forth and learn, Grasshopper! Are Consumers Sensitive to E-Book Prices? (Forbes) — “Consumers believe that e-books cost very little to produce and therefore should cost very little to purchase — and, certainly, e-books [...]
Here is this week’s Friday installment of the Wordpreneur Reader, with links to articles elsewhere I found informative and useful. Enjoy, go forth and learn, Grasshopper! An Industry on the Brink — Five Mistakes that are Killing Traditional Publishing (Kristen Lamb’s Blog) — “The paradigm is changing and the world is going digital. No matter [...]
Here is this week’s Friday installment of the Wordpreneur Reader, with links to articles elsewhere I found informative and useful. Enjoy, go forth and learn, Grasshopper! 4 Ways to Stay Productive When You Answer to Yourself (The Daily Muse) — “As entrepreneurs… most of us are pretty terrible at managing ourselves. Our to-do lists are [...]
Here is this week’s installment of the Wordpreneur Reader, with links to articles elsewhere I found informative and useful. Enjoy, go forth and learn, Grasshopper! Book Promotion For Self-Publishers: A Waste Of Time? (Forbes) — “Now, one does have to be careful with case studies, as they tend to cherry pick successful cases and ignore [...]
