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Freeform Sharing When I’m Uncertain and Need to Get Unstuck
This is a rambling, jumbled, uncertain mess — but I know others go through this sort of thing, too.
The upside to being an indie author is that, to all intents and purposes, I’m an independent business.
Maybe the term is authorpreneur? That’s fancy and probably a bit pretentious.
I choose when I write, what I write, how to publish and market my work, and am accountable to myself on every level.
This brings me to the downside of being an indie author. All deadlines are made and kept by me. When my business succeeds or fails, the only responsible party is me. I can’t point to the failings of Joe in accounting or Barb in marketing — it’s all me.
As an author, I have two specific benchmarks I hold to. Writing 1500 words of fiction a day and producing 4 blogs (and 1 podcast) per week.
The blogs have specific topics tied to them and the day I produce them. Monday is positivity, Tuesday is writing and creativity, Wednesday is my Pathwalking philosophy, and Thursday is health, wellness, and wellbeing.
The Tuesday and Thursday topics are the most nebulous. They’re broad, indirect, open to interpretation, and have numerous variations…
