@hg47's Blog: The Tweet & The TakeAway - Posts Tagged "success"

THE TWEET: This Tweet is using all the right words, but sending all the Wrong Signals. That’s OK: There must be a few “Wrong” people out there.

THE TAKEAWAY:

I have up-loaded a good portion of my best writing to AMAZON and SMASHWORDS, but it mostly just sits there. I have no clue how to draw attention to it, no clue how to promote it. Everything I try is the wrong thing.

I don't "get" the whole eBook thing. On my Dark Days it just looks like the Slushpile went online.

I'm actually hoping that I don't find a way to make a living at eBooks, because I'm pretty sure it would involve spending 12-14 hour days doing all the things I hate.

What I really want to do is write the first draft to a new novel.

Historically, my MO has been:
1) write a novel
2) try to sell novel
3) give up
[REPEAT]

Hey, maybe I will win the boobie-prize: success after I am dead.

@hg47

P.S. - Oh, yeah, about "Wrong" People, sorry, I got distracted. The "Right" People are going to be too busy for you, or you're going to need an introduction by a Power Player or a Mafia Don…or you may as well just go on doing your own thing (which is "wrong"), pissing people off right and left, hoping that you accidentally stumble into an insider who "gets" you.

Nobody loves you, until Everybody loves you, but then Most People hate you, but hide it.

They are famous because they were famous last week and people are still focused upon them right this minute.

Nobody wants to hear about anyone they haven't already heard about.

I'll think about reading a new book when and only when the book's title is blaring at me every time I go on the Internet, but I'll read the puppy when my best friend then demands that I read it!

We don't want to hear your name, until we can't help ourselves, and are humming your name in the elevator, unconsciously, when we then, REALLY HATE YOUR NAME, But Have To Smile And Pretend To Like Your Name.

Welcome to Success!

@hg47