I’ve taken a pretty decent break from Twitter.
A lot of my writer-ly friends hang there and hidden in the trenches of #WritingCommunity and various other self pub hashtags and crying about being an indie writer, the common thing that comes up is:
“I haven’t sold any books!” or some variation of writing service they offer alongside selling their own warez.
But what makes me want to punch a wall is the whole “If you don’t ask, you don’t get.” thing.
If people don’t know what’s on the menu. How are they gonna know what’s available to order?
You don’t want to be seen as one of those video game NPC characters that offer nothing but a “hey” when you talk to them…
And with A.I. taking over every platform with people posting the same old generated bullshit in MASSIVE quantities…
1 meek little post won’t cut it if you want to be seen, heard and bought from. Let alone taken seriously.
I honestly don’t care if you’ve been thinking about starting a thing. Whether you sell feet pics to the degens or want to sell your creative musings to the world.
The most important thing you need to do is show up daily and just be you.
Yeah people are going to start giving you shit, but the cool thing is. Those are the types of people who aren’t gonna support you and would probably never buy from you (Unless they have some weird rage-buying fetish…)
And that’s okay. Not everyone’s gonna be a fan.
I can yap on about this all day but it just needs to be raised every now and then.
You’re an amazing creative human and the world deserves to see, appreciate and buy your art.
So maybe this email will find you well and you’ll decided to get that idea that’s been swirling around inside of your brain meats, throw out into the world and finally get the good humans on your side, while filling your pockets with a few coins…
But for now if you need a little kick up the ass. You know what to do.
Hit reply and I’ll give you the medicine.
Stephen Walker