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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
Have you ever created something and then just thought it’s the best thing you’ve ever done?
That's sort of how I feel about MicroBook Magic.
Back in November 2022, when the world was starting to get back to normal after all the Covid lockdowns, I realised something was changing.
Beauty lies in the gaps. In the imperfections.
Because the imperfections are what makes life interesting.
The way the trapeze spins slightly faster than you were anticipating, so your movement quality changes almost imperceptibly and surprisingly, and your face makes a different shape to the one you were planning — but it works.
One of my MicroBook Magicians asked me this week — what if I don’t feel like planning today? What if I just want to dive right in? I want to write write write but I know I need to research some stuff!
And to that I say: HURRAH!
Fill yer boots, because there is no wrong way to write a book.
Progress is never linear.
It never takes us in a straight line from bad to good to excellent.
It’s a wiggle.
I’d like to think the wiggle trends upwards but we have to give it time to do that. Two data points aren’t enough, because that gives us the illusion of a straight line but it’s not, really.
When literally everyone with a megaphone on social media tells us we must be authentic, our true and unedited selves, or we’ll fail at business, life, and the 100m relay, try this instead:
Don’t.
Nobody wants our 100% true and unedited and authentic selves.
“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...
“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.
Ever wondered if your book idea (or you) is too... weird?
Like — you look at all the nonfiction and business books out there, and yours doesn’t seem to fit?
Maybe your face doesn’t fit, or your voice seems too brash, or your story seems a bit too out there compared to others in your niche...
Come with me. Lemme lift the tablecloth and usher you into the den.
Because you might be wondering: what’s it actually like to write a book?
Well, tbh I don’t know what it’s like for you… but I can tell what it ISN’T like.
One of the first books I ever read when I became a copywriter, in my first iteration of being a business owner, was A Technique for Producing Ideas by James Webb Young.
It’s a teeny tiny little book of just 60-odd pages, a handful of which are (slightly overblown) prefaces by ad industry dudes.
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