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What to do if you’re just starting out on your Author Adventure: planning, preparation, and dealing with your Inner Dickhead
Last week at the gym I took a tiny beetle step to becoming the type of irritating person who makes the most of every moment.
You know the type — they have to fill every spare second with something productive or what’s the point of them.
Here’s what happened because I know you’re on the edge of your seat.
“Why are you dithering?” said Joe.
“Me? I’m not dithering,” said I.
“Yes, you’re dithering. What are you doing?”
“I have many things to do and I’m not doing them. Shout at me.”
“I’m not going to shout at you,” he said. “What’s the most important thing?”
Say it with me: MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS.
You cannot tell me that the algorithm isn’t literally damaging our brains.
I open up Instagram and LinkedIn (and I don’t even go near TikTok) to see the following in this order:
“I asked ChatGPT”.....
We need to talk about bestsellers.
Bestsellers are hyped; books are written.
Then we market the shit out of them in hopes they’ll become a bestseller.
There are courses out there that proclaim promises like “write your bestseller with us” ...
Occasionally I wake up at 4am in a cold sweat, as I vividly recall that time I silenced a crowded restaurant by making the following suggestion to my friend:
“Well why don’t you just open up your legs and stuff it all in?”
It’s not what you’re thinking. It really isn’t.
Things I don’t miss about the past:
Cassette tapes getting tangled up and ruining the mix-tape you made
DJs talking over the end of songs when you tried to record the Top 40
Rotary phones (who has time to wait for it to click all the way back round from 0)
Things I do miss about the past:
You’re not for everyone. Nor am I.
And that’s not only okay, it’s brilliant!
There’s not enough time or energy in the world for one person to help everyone.
So, you probably don’t wanna work with me if you want a guaranteed bestseller...
My signature course, MicroBook Magic, wouldn’t even exist without this brilliant human.
Misty is Executive Director, North Durham Chamber of Commerce and CEO of Trifecta Sales Systems.
She’s also the author of How to Be a Thick-Skinned Email Marketer and the upcoming How to Be a Thick-Skinned Salesperson.
Since I was a small goblin child, I’ve been obsessed with the acknowledgements in books.
They’re a little piece of the story of how the book was created and the minds behind it and gratitude is always a delight to see anyway, right?
And, if I’m being totally honest, part of me was hoping to see my name there, too.
I am surrounded by the decaying corpses of hobbies I have gotten excited about, started, and then abandoned.
My hard drive is littered with the bones of books I began to write, but did not finish.
This is how my AuDHD brain works.
That doesn’t mean I don’t also create AND FINISH wonderful projects…
If you have ever looked closely at a fully alive and enthusiastic chicken, you’ll know they evolved from dinosaurs.
When Jurassic Park came out, I was like WELL OF COURSE BIRDS EVOLVED FROM DINOSAURS LOOK AT THEM. I did not understand why this was such a controversial idea.
Anyway, I am kept by chickens and they are 100% little dinosaurs. Velociraptors.
In every round of MicroBook Magic my clients knock my dinosaur-print socks off but every now and then someone just boggles me.
Like Laura, who is a marketing professor at Warwick Uni, and runs Think Talk Thrive, a professional development and career strategy agency AND has small children.
