Today’s video is going to ruffle some feathers…
I have noticed that in the writing community there’s 2 camps:
people who insist that self-published books should be of high quality and that indie authors should spend thousands of dollars on this
authors who improve as they go, so they would do it all themselves but later improve the quality when they have the budget
Can you guys guess which camp I’m in?
Hint: I used to be in one and then jumped to the other one this year…
Today’s video is all about the differences between traditional publishing and self-publishing. I didn’t have my notes with me so I did forget to mention that publishing houses will give you an advance and that you retain all of your work’s rights when you self-publish, but I included everything else.
In any case, this is a personal choice and there is no such thing as one is better than the other because they are both valid choices.
Okay? Okay.
Now onto the video…
And tell me - how will you publish your book? :)
So someone asked me this question on twitter and I answered it because I feel a lot of writers and authors out there are wondering the same thing.
You don’t want to be like everyone else and just write about writing, but what else is there? Post stories? What, WHAT??? Don’t worry, I tell you in the video and you’ll be able to apply this method right away.
Also, let me know, what do YOU blog about?
So as you might have noticed - or not! - am back on Youtube. Yayyy.
I’ve been hard at work on my Youtube channel, I’ve been filming a lot of videos, which will also be going on my Patreon, and right now I want to share the first video I put up because it has the story of why I left Youtube in the first place and how I overcame this in order to go back to shooting videos.
Watch the video and let me know what you think.
If you’re reading this, then you’re one of the many - countless! - creatives around the world who like to procrastinate. We don’t like it per se, but we do it a lot. Whether it’s because we’re putting things off or just getting distracted, procrastination is running rampant these days…
Don’t get me wrong, a little bit of it has been proven to be beneficial to creativity, but a lot results in NOTHING being done. And that’s not good.
In the beginning of this year - 2018 - I began so used to procrastinating every day that it ended up stopping my writing and halting my work altogether, I needed to figure something out fast, and this is what happened.
Someone recommended a tool for me, and I haven’t looked back since.
You know when you’re doing your thing and it’s like something’s not working? Maybe you’re blocked, maybe you’re tired, or maybe it’s time for a change.
For someone like me, who always says to bet on your strengths and do it your way, even I have to admit, sometimes your way might actually be in the way of progress, of growth, of what you may become if you weren’t so busy trying to keep everything the same because you’re afraid of change.
#GUILTY
Truth is, this year has been challenging a lot of my assumptions, like…
You should always go with your natural way.
Let me guess… you were freaking out before NaNoWriMo started - whaaaaat, everyone else is prepared, but I’m not ready!!! - and then you thought you couldn’t possibly write 50K words in one month, and now you feel like you’re falling behind because everyone’s word count is higher…
You know what? Screw that.
Stop thinking about the way everyone else is doing NaNoWriMo. You do you.
From the start, I said that I’d be a NaNo Rebel and…
Usually I have 100 ideas every day, so writer’s block… not really a problem, except for when I’m psychologically blocked. But back in the beginning of 2018, I was starting to write short stories and I found myself with NO IDEAS.
I was shocked. How come? Well, it happens to all.
My solution was to come up with some (non-sucky) writing prompts, and I don’t mean the ones that give you a story idea to write, but the ones that are merely tools to help you come up with your own fun ideas.
(Two of those are perfect for speculative fiction writers like yours truly, and the rest are perfect for anyone who writes storiesssss.)
If you’re multipassionate, you probably know how weird it is to start a blog… because you are supposed to pick one subject and when you do, it only lasts a while before you have to create a new blog, and a new blog, and a…
Yeah, it gets crazy. But it doesn’t have to be.
You don’t have to worry whether you’re confusing your people or whether you’re losing their interest or whether you’re coming off as flakey.
Do you tend to overdo everything you, well, do? Like… you can finish a presentation in an hour, but you take ten hours because every single slide has to look and sound… perfect? I know the feeling.
When I’m on Photoshop, a single image takes me hours to complete and then a couple more to create a ton more images that differ only slightly.
It used to drive me mad!!!
And it’s even worse when you’ve just started doing something new - video, podcasting, or what not, and you want it to be perfect, but it can’t be, so you drive yourself even more mad. Madder than the Mad Hatter…
