You have to finish the first draft of your book as fast as you can. The challenge to finishing fast is that you can get stuck on something you need to come back to and research or rewrite. When you are racing to “The End,” you want to finish fast. Stopping to shift from “writing…
Archives for November 2017
What would you create even if no one was watching?
Basecamp, the company formerly known as 37 Signals, is a big name in the startup space and very popular among developers. Their rise to prominence in that space came largely due to one thing: a blog. They had a blog that turned into a book that turned into a movement. Early on, though, they didn’t…
My Favorite Part about Writing Books
A friend asked me last night, “What’s your favorite part about writing books?” My knee-jerk response was, “None of it,” but that’s not really true. If I didn’t love writing, I wouldn’t do it. I was probably channeling the inner angst of other writers I’ve read about. Honestly, I have to think for a moment…
Newsletter Names: Don’t call your email newsletter a “newsletter.” Use one of these ideas instead.
I heard Nick Stephenson say in an interview that renaming his email “Newsletter” as a “Reading Group” increased the number of people that signed up. Listen to the full interview here: Getting Your First 10,000 Readers with Nick Stephenson (Self-publishing School Podcast) He pointed out that no one wants to sign up for a newsletter,…
Why Blogging Is Free
In the summer of 2017 I took The Marketing Seminar online course with Seth Godin. This is an adaptation of a post I wrote in the course forum. It helped clarify my thinking about the purpose of blogging. For years now there has been a lot of talk about “monetizing your blog.” The thought is…