I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be. — Dirk Gently, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams Growth hurts. I just came through a long, dark period of doubt about this whole being-an-entrepreneur thing. The questions flew…
I’m over 10,000 words into writing my book, and I hate it. It’s day 4 of the quest for 50,000 words. Uh oh. I realize that this is the first of many sticking points that will separate the women from the girls. This is the one time that stickiness is not a good thing. I…
Back in the spring, I wrote an eBook about writing an engaging eBook. This summer, I launched an eCourse to help people achieve the same goal. Why create an eCourse if you just wrote an eBook explaining how people can achieve what they want on their own? If you’re like me, I’m sure you’ve had…
Confusion Do you know what you want to say? Do you know which problem you’re trying to solve? Here’s the paradox of writing: we often figure out what we’re saying by writing. Though some people process better visually, auditorily or kinesthetically, we all need to process. It’s the old saying “the path is made by…
Chris Garrett has been addicted to the Internet since 1994. Now he does it all: professional blogger, internet marketing consultant, industry pundit, writer, coach, speaker and self-described “web geek.” He has authored several physical books in addition to his many eBooks, including co-authoring ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income with Darren…
Note: This post is part of a the Cartoonival of Wisdom hosted by Fight-Mediocrity.com Blooregard Q. Kazoo, also known as “Bloo,” is an imp with a heart. He’s almost pathologically self-centered, but you end up loving him anyway for his hare-brained schemes, unbridled enthusiasm and unsinkable determination. Always in trouble, he is a catalyst for…
Mark McGuinness is a writer and coach whose eBook Time Management for Creative People has been downloaded 80,000 times and led to the start of Lateral Action, a joint venture with Brian Clark and Tony Clark of Copyblogger. I was thrilled to interview Mark for this continuing case study series on eBooks as business building…
This is my interview with Sarah Arrow, co-author of the Complete Courier Guide. Sarah and her husband Kevin released their eBook in 2008 and it has sold slowly and steadily — over 300 copies to date — at a price point between $40 and $60. Sarah credits the eBook with bringing increased publicity for their…
It’s time to write it. As Thomas Edison so famously said, genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. Well, don’t feel like you need to be a genius to write an eBook and I would give inspiration more credit (at least 20%). The truth remains that you can only judge the merits of an idea…
My problem with “secrets.” I have this pet peeve about the use of the word “secrets,” as in “10 Secrets to Losing Weight in Your Sleep.” We live in the age of unbridled information people, there are no secrets — not honest to goodness ones like, say, the launch sequence for a nuclear weapon. I know,…