If there was one thing I wish writers could remember, it’s that every person’s writing career is ultimately going to unfold in a completely unique way.
We spend way too much time online discussing how to imitate so-and-so’s rise to success, when we should actually be working on our own daily climb.
Great writers write. They learn how to sell their words. They grow a body of work. They specialize according to their strengths over time. They embrace platform because it makes sense for their career growth. And they don’t have even five minutes on any given game day for whining.
Just like Olympic athletes work out strenuously and repeatedly, successful writers do the exact same types of workouts.
Every day is game day for writers. But in the end, the game is never quite the same.
So, if you are waiting, what are you waiting for?
How are we ever going to know what your career is going to look like if you don’t or won’t get in the game so the game can start?
When are you going to start taking your ambitions seriously?
When are you going to make peace with the call to action that comes with having ambitions in the first place?
When are you going to stop the preparation and discussion and research and get going on your writing career work?
I wrote The Writer’s Workout for the writers who are tired of watching from the sidelines. I wrote it for the writers who are ready to get in the game and find their strides and achieve their own personal bests.
In the Olympics, competitors are up against others who have trained just as long and hard as they have. In your writing career, before you can even compete, you have to get out of your own way and give yourself permission to try. You have to work hard and steadily and push yourself.
You could probably use a good coach. Most athletes have one.
I can’t personally coach everyone, so I wrote The Writer’s Workout instead. It contains the best of ten years of my writing career advice.
Here comes the starting gun. It goes off every day.
So what’s it going to be, my dear writer? Are you in or are you out?
The publishing game is going to go on with you or without you. It can only be changed by you if you decide to play.