Monday, July 28, 2008

Why Now is the Best Ever to Be a Writer

16 Reasons Why Now is the Best Time Ever for You to Be a Writer

You have more:

1. Subjects to write about than ever

2. Ways to get feedback on your writing than ever

3. Options for getting your books written and published than ever

4. Publishers to submit to than ever

5. Books and authors for you to model your books and your career on than ever

6. Events, media, organizations online and off for building and maintaining your networks

7. Ways to test-market your books to guarantee their success

8. Ways to promote your books and profit from them than ever

9. Ways to maximize the impact of your promotion during your book’s crucial one-to-three-month launch window

10. Ways to build and maintain the networks you need to succeed

11. Places for you to speak about your ideas than ever. If corporations, nonprofit organizations, or college students will pay you to speak, you can build a speaking career that may earn you more than your royalties.

12. Forms, media, and countries to sell your books to than ever

13. Ways than ever to create a career by practicing nichecraft: finding an idea that:

* lends itself to a series of books that you are passionate about writing and promoting
* generates income and publicity for you
* creates synergy by selling the other books in the series, the talks based on them, and the books’ subsidiary rights

14. Ways to build your brand and do it faster than ever

15. The computer is the most powerful and empowering tool for writers since the printing press. Technology makes it easier to research, write, sell, and get feedback on your books, and stay connected to your networks than ever.

16. English is the international language of culture and commerce.

1 comment:

Bill Chapman said...

May I gently suggest that it is something of an exaggeration to say that "English is the international language of culture and commerce." English is fairly widesporead, but it is only one of 6,000 languages on the planet.

Have you ever looked at Esperanto? A good place to start is www.esperanto.net