Authors take the time - if they have it - to ponder their careers. Are they satisfied with their books? Have they done everything they can think of to do to engineer success? Have they paid others to do what they cannot, i.e. promote, sell, market? Do they continue in their current vein of writing, production, general conduct?
My answers would be in order: Yes. No. Some. Who knows?
Creating novels is not a hobby for me, but yet the way I've approached it is clearly unprofessional.
I tried hard at first to be traditionally published. I came close once.
The trouble is I'm a lousy marketer in spite of believing in the stories I've written. Many an author has said, "All I want to do is write - the rest I'm not good at and don't want to do it."
I love the story I'm working on now - but I've loved most of those I've written.
So much for Monday's musings . . .
Father, I can't write word one without you. Apart from you, there is no inspiration, nothing. Thank you is never enough. In the Name of Jesus, Amen.