HELP ME!!! What do I do to stay jazzed while working with all the day-after-day tasks of writing, then, jumping through the new hoops of endless market chores? How do I care for and provide and nurture the fun of the writer's life?
This marketing thing is a mess. I didn't ever want to be a business
person. If I watch episodes of The Office, I feel like I will throw up.
All the great talent: Jenna Fischer, John Krasinski, Rainn Wilson, Steve Carell, etc, really do pull off a terrifying mockumentary of how lame and pathetic the world of so-called business-people really is and how the trenches of so-called business squash the life out of all support people.
The whole thought of so-called business-people is so disgusting with its authority over a group of employees: pathetic ego trips; gross sexual come-ons; and in the end, boredom so overwhelming that life has become hell on earth. Am I going to become that by being my own publisher?
The first thing is that the Info about the Indie writer's life is scattered all over the net. With all grotesque business-types doing in-your-face, pathetic pop-ups . . . well, you've seen it all . . . how do I tell what's FAKE NEWS: build your social media platform for years before I start; I can't market my books without a huge budget; I've got to have a copyright, ISBN numbers, bar codes and all that . . .
With all this crap to wade through, just like The Office, how do I keep my writer alive, jazzed and completely inspired? The Zen Of Keeping My Writer Inspired SLASHES THROUGH all that FAKE NEWS fast!!!
WHY READ THE ZEN OF KEEPING MY WRITER INSPIRED?
Very often writers ". . . are deluded. They're always longing for something . . . always seeking . . . . But the wise wake up. They choose reason over custom. They fix their minds on the sublime and let their bodies change with the seasons. All phenomena are empty. They contain nothing worth desiring."
Bodhidharma - The Tap Root of Zen
SEVEN INDIE NOTIONS
1 – Have you set your financial goals to include MAD MONEY as a set-aside for having fun?
2 – Do you have a marketing plan that's tight enough to leave room for your personal inspiration?
3 – Do you have a list of vendors & virtual assistants to kick up your heels with off and on, all the time?
4 – What are the most important inspirational web sites for getting my wild and crazy gyroscope balanced?
5 – What do I really want as an author/publisher?
6 – What are the best places on the net to cut through all the Indie Publishing BS?
7 – Have I made INSPIRATION TIME a cast-in-stone part of my schedule?
