Where Normal Need Not Apply
Aspiration is “a hope or ambition of achieving something,” such as we see with the #RelationshipGoals tags on social media. Not surprisingly, our hopes and goals are sometimes reflected in the stories we write or the books we read.
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As a perfectionist, I know what it’s like to feel like our best isn’t good enough, but maybe that’s where our connections to each other can help. Together, we can feel a sense of accomplishment for when we’ve done our best.
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Writers often suffer from self-doubt. We’re not sure if our story idea is interesting enough, if we’re the right person to write our idea. All that self-doubt can lead us to reject ourselves before others do—or before they even can.
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A recent Twitter thread brought up problematic reader expectations with story endings. Can we find a balance between “fulfilling our story’s promise and our genre’s expectations” and avoiding a cliché ending?
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As a writer we can suffer from the impostor syndrome, feeling like a newbie many times over. But we all have expertise in something, and now’s your chance to help others and share what you know.
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After we finish brainstorming and start trying to assemble our ideas into a story, that’s the perfect point in our writing process to avoid major problems by questioning what story issues we might run into before we write too many words.
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Part of being an author is finding and marketing our book to readers who will love our story. If we think like a business person, we can see how the launching of a new book has many similarities to how businesses launch a new product.
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Goals are good, but when things don’t work out like we planned, we can still try to appreciate any enjoyment along the way. The journey of life is what matters.
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We need to promote our books, as they don’t sell themselves, but most writers avoid thinking about marketing stuff. Yet with the right goals, marketing and promotion can be fun, and Christina Delay is here to show us how.
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Instagram is a fast-growing social media platform, but as authors who focus on words rather than pictures, we might not know how to make it work for us. In Part 2, Monica Corwin shares how to make it work for our brand.
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