Five reasons why it's very haed to start a creative writing business that might make you feel better or worse depending on your comfort level with embracing nonsense.
Thank you. I have read this post twice and have greatly enjoyed it both times.
I hugely enjoy and appreciate your writing on the ridiculous work of being financially successful in a creative business. Your clarity and willingness to share is a pleasure. Commerce is never sentimental, billions will never care what it is you are selling. Success is fickle and fleeting. You have articulated something important, while all the preceding is true, so what? You can till succeed if you choose to do the work.
My employed life was spent in Supply Chain Management and your breakdown of the 80/20 rule is the fundamental engine of profitable success within SCM. Find and concentrate on profitable customers, manage the rest by good process.
Mostly I greatly resonated with the post because you make plain that all options are good options for someone. No one solution for all. My measure of success as a writers is that a non-zero number of people read my stories. I am lucky enough to work with a publisher who takes a supermarket approach, loads of writers in different genres, success and profit coming from aggerate sales. I have no expectation of being a financial success from writing, I cherish and hold onto the hope of being a creative success.
I’m so glad it resonated with you. Publishing is a lot of supply chain management, so the way you succeed in scm has always been in the back of my mind :)
Incredible work, Russell. Thank you for the solace and advice here.
I have been learning a lot about business and marketing since I started writing creatively. I am getting fatigue, reading about it now. But it would be very useful to learn the business side of things as an aspiring author.
Well, I highly recommend checking out the books I wrote available to all members, How to Become a Successful Author and How to Build Your Creative Career, along with This is NOT a Book. I recommend you pick one thing a quarter to focus on, but it's probably only truly important once you have a voice and your work resonates with people. https://authorstack.substack.com/p/nonfiction
Dear Mr. Nohelty,
Thank you. I have read this post twice and have greatly enjoyed it both times.
I hugely enjoy and appreciate your writing on the ridiculous work of being financially successful in a creative business. Your clarity and willingness to share is a pleasure. Commerce is never sentimental, billions will never care what it is you are selling. Success is fickle and fleeting. You have articulated something important, while all the preceding is true, so what? You can till succeed if you choose to do the work.
My employed life was spent in Supply Chain Management and your breakdown of the 80/20 rule is the fundamental engine of profitable success within SCM. Find and concentrate on profitable customers, manage the rest by good process.
Mostly I greatly resonated with the post because you make plain that all options are good options for someone. No one solution for all. My measure of success as a writers is that a non-zero number of people read my stories. I am lucky enough to work with a publisher who takes a supermarket approach, loads of writers in different genres, success and profit coming from aggerate sales. I have no expectation of being a financial success from writing, I cherish and hold onto the hope of being a creative success.
Thank you.
I’m so glad it resonated with you. Publishing is a lot of supply chain management, so the way you succeed in scm has always been in the back of my mind :)
Thank you for this! I figure the only thing I have complete control over in this business is if I quit or keep going, so I'm going to keep going.
I love it.
Incredible work, Russell. Thank you for the solace and advice here.
I have been learning a lot about business and marketing since I started writing creatively. I am getting fatigue, reading about it now. But it would be very useful to learn the business side of things as an aspiring author.
Well, I highly recommend checking out the books I wrote available to all members, How to Become a Successful Author and How to Build Your Creative Career, along with This is NOT a Book. I recommend you pick one thing a quarter to focus on, but it's probably only truly important once you have a voice and your work resonates with people. https://authorstack.substack.com/p/nonfiction