Why Is It So Hard For Writers To Get & Stay Process-oriented?

I know why.

Or maybe I should say, I could name a whole bunch of reasons why.

But let’s name one for now.

The publishing industry is broken because according to it, you are either an over-night success or you are inconsequential to the industry.

Guess who loses in this equation? Almost every writer you know.

Any sensible creative person, who is used to being methodical and process-oriented, can and should remember that real life success is cyclical, not instantaneous.

Remember that none of this overnight success stuff was your idea. You are a sensible, process-oriented person, and that’s a lot healthier and more sane.

Naturally writers doubt ourselves when everything that we have mastered no longer serves us when it comes to marketing and book promotion. But we can be smarter than this. We can take a longer view and distance ourselves from some of the insanity of industry pressures.

I spoke at length about this topic in my most recent traditionally published book, The Writer’s Workout.

What it says in there is that time is your ally, writers, not your enemy…but only if you are the one in charge of your career.

If you give your power away to others, you will always be subject to the whims and follies of absurd or insane schedules.

Take your power back, writers. Grab a copy of The Writer’s Workout and read it yourself or with your writing group.

Stop participating in something old that does not work for most writers any longer (and indeed, never did, it was actually a mechanism to sort the wheat–bestsellers–from the chafe–everyone else). And start participating in something new that’s also very old.

I will help show you how in my forthcoming e-book that launches in early November.

In the meantime, you will find comfort, inspiration, and renewed self-confidence, I hope, in The Writer’s Workout.

Thanks for reading, getting in touch with me, and letting me know if it helps.