Hey guys. I've been a member of this forum for some time now. Just wanted to leave this here as a bit of motivation that if I can do it, so can you!
Back in 2014, I started writing and publishing fiction to Amazon Select. I was in a terrible marriage at the time, with absolutely no support from my husband. In fact, he told his friends that I wrote 'vampire porn' and that my time would be better served working at McDonalds. I suppose writing was my escape from that life and boy, did I dive into my fantasy world. By March 2014, I had about 24 titles up (they were novellas) and my payout for March was a little over 6k which I received in May. It came as no surprise that dear old hubby changed his tune... "you need to write more so I can quit my job!" I left him in July of that year.
Since then, my personal life turned around - I'm with an amazing man that loves that I write and that I'm a creative, we have an 8-week old son, and I'm even thinner than I was when I was with the ex... and that's after having a baby at 41!
However... because my writing was my escape from my misery, my motivation ran thin as soon as I found happiness. After a half a year of 3-6k months and becoming a best-selling author due to a box set with a couple other authors, my publishings slowed to nearly nothing. Of course, fiction has a shelf life and when I stopped publishing, my sales dwindled. (I think I made $18 last month from Amazon.)
I've been evaluating things and realized that I was the ruination of the success train I had going. Do not take it for granted when you start doing well. Success is like a garden and it needs to be tended. I forgot about mine as I enjoyed the fruits of my past labors. DUMB! Now I have to go through and pick out the jungle of weeds and start from scratch... almost.
At any rate... I've had success and it tastes amazing! If I can do it, you can too. The keys are: research your niche, study your niche, live/breathe your niche, stay focused on your niche no matter what, and believe. I believed I could do it despite my depressing marriage... and I did it! If I did it in the face of all of that, I know I can do it again.
We can't make excuses... take accountability, learn from your mistakes, and just do it! Success is waiting!
Back in 2014, I started writing and publishing fiction to Amazon Select. I was in a terrible marriage at the time, with absolutely no support from my husband. In fact, he told his friends that I wrote 'vampire porn' and that my time would be better served working at McDonalds. I suppose writing was my escape from that life and boy, did I dive into my fantasy world. By March 2014, I had about 24 titles up (they were novellas) and my payout for March was a little over 6k which I received in May. It came as no surprise that dear old hubby changed his tune... "you need to write more so I can quit my job!" I left him in July of that year.
Since then, my personal life turned around - I'm with an amazing man that loves that I write and that I'm a creative, we have an 8-week old son, and I'm even thinner than I was when I was with the ex... and that's after having a baby at 41!
However... because my writing was my escape from my misery, my motivation ran thin as soon as I found happiness. After a half a year of 3-6k months and becoming a best-selling author due to a box set with a couple other authors, my publishings slowed to nearly nothing. Of course, fiction has a shelf life and when I stopped publishing, my sales dwindled. (I think I made $18 last month from Amazon.)
I've been evaluating things and realized that I was the ruination of the success train I had going. Do not take it for granted when you start doing well. Success is like a garden and it needs to be tended. I forgot about mine as I enjoyed the fruits of my past labors. DUMB! Now I have to go through and pick out the jungle of weeds and start from scratch... almost.
At any rate... I've had success and it tastes amazing! If I can do it, you can too. The keys are: research your niche, study your niche, live/breathe your niche, stay focused on your niche no matter what, and believe. I believed I could do it despite my depressing marriage... and I did it! If I did it in the face of all of that, I know I can do it again.
We can't make excuses... take accountability, learn from your mistakes, and just do it! Success is waiting!
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