5 Ways Your Business of Writing Will Change

Your business of writing will change. To help you as a writer, here are 5 tips centered around the fact change happens.

1. The Unknown Becomes Known

  • You don’t know what you know until you know it– except
  • You discover what you like
  • You discover what you don’t like
  • You discover you have more talent for one kind of writing over another
  • You understand the industry better
  • You learn more about the business of writing
  • Through experience and feedback you learn better of not only how to “level up” your writing but also of its quality

2. Your Circumstances Change

  • You have more time to write
  • You have less time to write
  • You go through a trial that informs and shapes what you want to write
  • You go through a trial that changes your physical or mental abilities
  • You have one or more of life’s major stressors going on

3. Connections Change

  • You learn how to engage with others in your field
  • You learn how to find your readers
  • You get to know one of your writing heroes
  • You get in touch with others in the same writing boat, online or in-person
  • You connect with others who train you to be a better writer — critique groups, podcasts, conference speakers, etc.

4. Market Changes

  • The market changes for what you are writing, like cross-pollination
  • You discover market demand for something else you’d like to write
  • Demand surges for a particular format (audiobooks)
  • Demand surges overseas for your market
  • You learn in what market segments demand is growing for your writing
  • You learn to that “marketing” isn’t a dirty word, the difference between publicity and marketing, and how much marketing depends on engaging with others

5. The Industry Shifts

  • Major publishing houses condense further (or expand, but not likely)
  • Independent bookstores rise in popularity
  • Amazon totally changes their ebook strategy, and you flourish (or perish, depending)
  • Different distribution channels appear or disappear in the industry for your supported formats (a channel allowing easy access to ebooks in libraries, for instance)
  • Technology impacts drive production changes, or publication changes, or popular formats, or revenue models

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