Hi there,
Not too long ago, I did a Q&A with the fine folks over at Gotham Ghostwriters, an agency that helps people find writers to tell their stories. They asked me about publishing, the book-writing process, and even my writing pet peeves . . .
GG: What major changes have you noticed in the publishing industry since you first launched WriteByNight? How have they affected the way you teach/work with clients?
Me: We’ve been lucky to experience in WriteByNight’s lifetime the single biggest event in publishing since the printing press.
That is, of course, self-publishing, which has, for better or worse, redefined the industry. It’s democratized not only the publishing process, but the writing process as well, giving millions of people a voice that they might not have found otherwise.
From the hundreds of those millions that WBN has worked with, we discovered that heading into a project with the knowledge that it definitely will be published—as opposed to the distant possibility that it someday maybe could possibly find its way into readers’ hands—can make a big difference in a writer’s ability to do the work, to show up hour after hour, day after grueling day.
In some cases, it means the difference between writing a book and not writing one.
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