You know you want to write a book. I can help.
Another of my least favorite arguments proffered by supporters of traditional publishing:
Have you seen all the junk that comes out of vanity press? Traditional publishing avoids that.
No, it doesn’t.
… more … “Traditional Publishing: Keepers of the Quality?”
Here are six tools my clients and friends have found effective in combating writer’s block, fear, Resistance, the lizard brain; whatever you like to call it.
… more … “6 Tools to Get You Writing (Instead of Whimpering in the Fetal Position on the Closet Floor)”
The single biggest reason you haven’t written a book, or don’t blog, or haven’t written a letter to a loved one, for that matter, is fear.
Yeah, I know; you’re busy. You can’t think of what to write. The dog ate your computer. As I used to say to my middle daughter, what-HEV-urrr.
… more … “Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid. NOT.”
I met Jan through Seth Godin’s Triiibes network. Jan has finished his book, and wrote a blog post about why it took him over four years. It is a cautionary tale, after which you should go read Steven Pressfield’s “Do the Work.”
Read Jan’s post here: http://janrutherford.com/four-things-i-learned-writing-my-first-book/
Watch for posts on how Seth Godin is changing the book-writing and publishing world. For today, watch Seth himself talk about how, after his first book made the New York Times bestseller list, he gave his second book away—and made more money with it than his first book.
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“The industry is dead.”—Seth Godin