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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
I am currently obsessed with the TV show New Amsterdam.
It’s fabulous brain-out beautiful people in unlikely storylines telly.
But it also gets me thinking about perspectives, and how we badly need stories from people who don’t look, sound or live like us.
My friend, if you’ve ever thought you need inspiration to strike in order to write your book, LET ME TELL YOU about inspiration.
We’ve been sold a lie by antique romantic poets who — let’s be honest — were all off their tits on opium.
“I’m Alexis Rose!" I trilled, as I booped a complete stranger on the nose.
Laughs around the room and I breathed a sigh of relief and launched into a story about how I used to be engaged to the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia until I was kidnapped by pirates.
Some things are just good for your brain.
No matter what’s going on inside it, what illnesses or challenges or mental health issues we may have — some activities are magic.
Like…Walking among trees. Moving your body. Human contact. Journalling.
You’re doing great! Did you know that?
Because I know what humans are like, and our brains focus on all the things we haven’t done, rather than cheering about the things we have done — here’s a little Friday game for you.
Name 3 things you’re proud of yourself for this week. I’ll go first...
Sometimes I work the pole. Or the trapeze.
Meaning, gutterface, that I practice and teach trapeze and pole dancing and it’s really good fun.
One of the funnest parts, for me, is watching people go from “I can’t do this” to “I’m doing it I’m doing it” to “wow that looks amazing.”
Sarah wrote her first book, Small Island Big Business, with my help — then came back, knowing she wanted to dive in again.
This time, the book idea was a quirky mix of travel stories and a much-needed mindset shift for translators who hate the idea of marketing.
According to Hootsuite, businesses spend about $1,600 on Facebook ads A MONTH!
There are good, smart, and seemingly rich people out there paying Meta a mortgage payment to ensure they can keep their business at the forefront of everyone's minds.
Ready for your own “I never thought I could do this” moment?
This subject line dropped into my inbox today from an old client and I thought YES QUEEN.
When’s the last time you did something you never thought you’d be able to do?
What was it?
One of the reasons people don’t write books
(and I know this to be true because they tell me)
is that the idea of writing a book is just Too Big.
And I totally understand that; I’ve written several books and they are Very Big. But I write for a living; it’s literally what I do.
“You’re an author? That’s so cool!”
“I self-published it, it’s not in Waterstones or anything,” I replied.
I had this conversation — paraphrased, natch — a few years ago, just after I wrote my first book. I felt uncomfortable with the praise, like publishing it myself was pure vanity.
Tantrums to Titles: that was the name of the talk I gave yesterday at Circle Networks Live24.
I stood up in front of a couple of hundred people…
Shared some of my favourite book writing wisdom…
And was beyond delighted when so many people said their big takeaway from the day was that they wanted to write a book of their own!
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