If you are reading this Blog Post it may be time to reevaluate the choices you have made in life.

How To Become A Better Writer:
read 100,000,000 awesome words;
write 1,000,000 original words.
How To Succeed As A Writer:
haven’t a clue.

I can always tell when one of my tweets gets on favstar's 10-star leaderboard because it gets a big bump in stars and ReTweets. Not because the tweet is actually better, but because a lot of extra people see it and react to it.

What I really want to do is write the first draft of my next novel. What the world wants me to do is spend all my time drawing attention to what I have already written. (When I say, "What the world wants me to do," I mean that's where the rewards are, the fruit the world dangles to entice me, just out of reach.)

Unfortunately, not only do I not know how to aim attention at my writings, I hate even thinking about it. So, why are you still reading this post? I am not any kind of role model, and I have no answers.

@hg47