There is a way to come out of that isolation and find yourself among people who think like you, who talk to non-existent people in their heads, who also spend hours a day/week/month pounding at a keyboard, praying fervently that the words they type will mean something to the readers who consume them.
Attend a writers event.
Why do you need reviews? The obvious answer is to garner or increase your symbolic capital. A COMMON mistake many authors make is when they request that someone give their book a review is they either ask the reader to search for the book or even send the person a link to their book, making the person click around till they finally get to the review page where they can write the review.Because of this, readers are more than likely not to follow through. More than three clicks and they move on.
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“We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.” ~Carlos Castaneda
Writing can be a physically demanding job. We sit in a chair for hours at a time and hold our hands in a certain position on a keyboard, then type, type, type. It’s bad for our backs. It’s bad for our hands. It’s bad for our necks.
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“There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it’s like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.” ~Ernest Hemingway
So, I logged into my webhost (I use Ionos, which is formerly 1and1 – I’ve been with them now for about 18 years) and started digging through their dashboard. I had to get creative with my search terms (because they also are the providers for my emails for my websites, so email is the not the best search term!) and finally found it!
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Work hard in silence. Let success make the noise.
FANBOYS is a handy mnemonic device for remembering the coordinating conjunctions: For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So.
Here is my take on FANBOYS:
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And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord and not to men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ. Colossians 3:23-24