“I’m writing a first draft and reminding myself that I’m simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.” ~Shannon Hale #mondaymotivation
Month: January 2022
In this several-part series, we’re going to look at what it means to build a platform, and then once that platform is built, how to use it to market your books. In part one, we define marketing and how it applies to authors and book sales:
I never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering. ~Robert Frost #mondaymotivation
You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. ~Jack London #mondaymotivation
“You don’t start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it’s good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it.” ~Octavia E. Butler
“The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.” ~Terry Pratchett