Member-only story
Step One: Write. Step Two: Edit. Step Three: Profit?
Sadly, step three (Profit) requires more steps — and some other intangibles.
Since 2013, I have self-published 17 books in total on Amazon. Five of them are nonfiction and published under Murray “MJ” Blehart, while the other 12 are fiction under MJ Blehart.
From the outside, it looks like there are 3 steps to the writing process. Write. Edit. Profit! Except that’s just not the case.
There are way more than 3 steps. What’s more — profit — has a lot of different challenges to it in addition to any steps one takes towards it.
Today I’m going to share the steps that go into reaching profit. Please note — this is MY experience with this. I don’t doubt others have had their own, different experiences.
One step, two step (red step, blue step)
When I started out writing as a kid, the process was much easier. Sit down and write. Bing, bang, boom.
By my teens, I’d finished 2 books — a 50 page, hand-written, and illustrated sci-fi story I wrote when I was 9. Then, a 36-page, double-spaced typed sci-fi story when I was 13. Additionally, I wrote an award-winning technothriller short story when I was 18 in High School.
