The Great Writing Business Challenge – Week 07 Results Three new non-fiction books published this week. Caught up in general. Letting IF/PW just go along. Lulu came in with a surprising sales of a $100 royalty off a single book (I sell like one a year of these.) Metrics Subscribers: Instafreebie/PW: 242 StoryOrigins: 3 Overall Total: 4053 Published Words Fiction: – free – Own Site: 5987, Medium: 0, Wattpad: 0 – paid – Book Outlets: 0, Medium: 0 Published Words Non-Fiction: – free – Own Site: 1917, Else: 811 (Medum) – paid – Book Outlets: 250938, Medium: 0 Books Books (pre-)published: The Writer's Journey of John Earl Stark 02 How I Survived My First Year of Fiction Writing This Fiction Business – (H. Bedford-Jones re-publish) Learning from the Pulp Masters … [Read more...]
Living Sensical: An Overdue Update – and Hints of Upcoming…
...mainly because the busy-ness of writing and publishing is just one part of everything I do here. (This post available as a PDF.) Hi again, Going through all my subscribers today was an interesting exercise. Many of you are interested in several things I talk about, and some of you may have slipped in the cracks - so this may be an email out of the blue, perhaps. The Overall Scene - I may may have mentioned you before that a way to analyze any body of data and build your own workable world-view is to look for these four points: Philosophy, Principles, Patterns, and Products. Philosophy is defined as "appreciation for things that work." Principles are core, repeating data that keep showing up. Patterns are like systems, where the principle inter-relate regularly (like … [Read more...]
Four Ways to Upgrade Any Part or All of Your World
Four Ways to Upgrade Any Part or All of Your World Taking up an old study recently, I was surprised to find a new way of sorting out any field of data. One you can count this on four fingers and it will help you upgrade anything you are doing become more efficient and effective. I started this because I went to someone to see how he was doing the same activity I was, but seemed to have a better grasp of it. Yet couldn't explain it to me clearly. At least he was more optimistic than I was, after my decade at trying this and that in the field. (Literally in the field. This was working out how to graze cattle on pasture more effectively - less time, more profit.) But it turns out that these four obvious points also have to do with any business and even fiction writing. Not to … [Read more...]
Self-Help: Keeping the Luster in Your Life – Earl Nightingale
Self-Help: Keeping the Luster in Your Life - Earl Nightingale Another essay by Earl Nightingale from the How to Completely Change Your Life Series Have you ever thought much about newness? You know, it’s the quality people talk about when they say, “A new broom sweeps clean,” or “Turn over a new leaf.” Well newness, like most things, has its good side and its bad, depending on how we look at it. A person in a new job, for instance, may feel he’s at a disadvantage. He may be nervous, uncertain of just what he’s supposed to do and just how to do it. Sometimes he’s bewildered by all that’s going on around him. Maybe he’s even a little scared. Even so, the person who’s new to a business has a unique advantage over some of the other more seasoned women or men in the company. His job has a … [Read more...]
Self-Improvement: We Invent Ourselves – Earl Nightingale
Self-Improvement: We Invent Ourselves - Earl Nightingale Another essay by Earl Nightingale from the How to Completely Change Your Life Series Have you given much thought to the fact that you create yourself? You do, to an altogether unsuspected extent, simply by the choices you make; by the things you decide to do... or decide not to do. As Kierkegaard said, “The self is only that which it is in the process of becoming.” So it is that an adult can stand in front of a full-length mirror and take a good long look at what he’s created. We leave home and we form ourselves into new people and we learn, as Thomas Wolfe learned, that we can’t go home again; that we don’t fit as well as we used to. We wonder, after a visit... as we leave to regain our own lives, what happened, if … [Read more...]
Self-Improvement: Two Keys to Enthusiasm – Earl Nightingale
Self-Improvement: Two Keys to Enthusiasm - Earl Nightingale Another essay by Earl Nightingale from the How to Completely Change Your Life Series Reading Bernard Levin’s excellent piece, “In Praise of Exuberance,” I became concerned anew, as he has, about the general disappearance of exuberance and enthusiasm in the modem world. It reminded me again of the powerful cartoon I saw some years back by the European artist, Fernando Krahn. In the first panel, he shows a group of small schoolchildren entering a street-level subway station. As the children head down to the subway, they’re the picture of exuberant joy. They’re laughing, playing and tossing hats in the air, as children do. But in the next panel, we see a group of middle-aged adults coming out of a subway station. They wear the … [Read more...]
