50- Writing Income Part 1

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News:

Kobo Writing Life coop for NetGalley

Audible releasing audiobook first

Authors still getting rank-stripped

Stupid Author Tricks:

-Tit for tat invitations to strangers
-groups
-review
-promo

-Asking the distributor why your book isn't selling

-Not understanding how royalties work


Writing Income-Trad Pub:

Kameron Hurley's income report

-Very low income from trad-pub despite being well regarded
-Largest income from Patreon. Doing it in a way that requires lots of work. Could work smarter.
-Essentially making no money from indie. Doing it wrong and doesn't really care.
-Still has a day job due to insurance needs.

Jim Hines' income report

-Decent midlist income from tradpub sales
-Big dropoff from previous year, mostly due to working on books sold the previous year.
-Very little income from indie publishing

Overall:
Tradpub is very difficult if you're not a top-tier bestsellere.

45- The Benefits of Writing Longhand

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What role can handwriting play in your writing process? What are the potential benefits?

Benefits:
-Handwriting is linked to creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving.

-Handwriting engages not only cognitive processes, but motor skills and neurosensory experiences.

-Handwriting forces you to slow down and think.

-Handwriting tends to lead you to synthesize and distill information in a way that keyboarding and copy/pasting does not. Consequently, handwriting improves retention and recall of information.


-Handwriting makes it easy to create graphic organizers/mind maps.

-Handwriting can help you avoid the distractions available on a computer or other device.

I use handwriting for:
-Note-taking during research.

-Character creation.

-Brainstorming story ideas.

-Building my "level one" outline.

-Working my way past blocks/difficult plot knots.


Pitfalls:
-Composing by hand is much slower.

-Losing your notebook/pages.

-Can't read my own handwriting.

-Organizing/reorganizing can be problematic.

-Don't use handwriting as an excuse to waste a bunch of money on expensive pens and fancy moleskine notebooks.