Writing, Resistance, and The Hard Part of the Easy Part

Authorpreneurship comes with its share of challenges.

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As an indie-author, I’m not just a writer. I’m also the publisher, organizer, business manager, marketing department, and all-around entrepreneur. Most indie-authors evolve to become an authorpreneur when they wear all the necessary hats of self-publishing.

I’ve written before about how arranging cover art, getting an editor, doing layout, marketing, and the rest of the steps tend to be the hardest part of this. Writing, I say, is the easy part.

Except when it’s not. This comes in a couple of different forms. I’m going to address two of them here. One is a product of what Steven Pressfield calls “Resistance” — the force that presents obstacles, reasons, and other daily issues to get in the way of doing your work. The other is when you reach the end of one project and haven’t chosen the next.

Both hard parts of the easy part have their challenges. Recognizing and acknowledging this is the first step in working with and through them.

Battling Resistance

Resistance, according to author Steven Pressfield, is that force that manifests itself as every distraction, every reason and non-reason why you can’t do your work and make…