You’re very accustomed to hearing voices in your head. In fact, you take pride in having those conversations with imaginary people who only exists in the gray matter between your years.
After all, you are a writer.
But there are other voices in your head. Oh, not the ones who are telling you to murder the protagonist or devise a happily ever after. It’s the little people who constantly tell you how you will fail.
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No one wants to be a one hit wonder.
You know, write that first book, or first series, and then struggle to find more success.
I was in this boat after the Nashvegas books.
Not that they were a break out… in fact, they weren’t at all.
So I had to decide what to write next that caught my publisher’s eye.
I was blessed to be at a house that believed in giving an author more than a one-contract chance.
But if I didn’t find some success soon, there was no reason for my publisher to continue with me.
I was writing chick lit but it was dying a quick death as a sub romance genre.
At an ACFW conference, I braved a conversation with my publisher. “What can I do to turn things around?”
“Well,” he said, “we’re not quite sure how to brand you.”
This really confused me. I wrote chick lit. Romance. How was it hard to brand me?
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You say you want a mentor. Fine. But have you stopped to think about who you’re looking for? Beyond the obvious “I want another writer to mentor me in writing” – have you considered what characteristics make a quality mentor?
Read the RestThe holidays are over and you’re four days into a brand new year. You want to make the best of it. But when you think of how to do that, it’s a bit overwhelming.
So since you’re starting all over again, how do you set yourself up for success in 2014? Here are a few things that can help:
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