New Year's Pact

Despite the apparent vacuum of activity on this blog, I’ve been putting in “chair time” working on my projects and keeping my commitment to treat my writing like a business. A big step in that direction was a worthwhile hour or so with my colleague Karen Gilb, exploring our dissatisfaction with the lack of organization and drive we see in other writers and ourselves. Oh yeah, we are so guilty, but that’s going to change!

We made commitments to each other that we would 1) support each other in our efforts to professionalize our writing careers; 2) research and exchange information about how to market, sell and make money as writers in the 21st Century (traditional publishing isn’t the only way to do this!); and 3) we would chronicle our findings in this blog.

Even if you aren’t an aspiring wordsmith, much of what we learn should be useful to you if you have aspirations to improve your productivity, break through your self-imposed assumptions about how the world works, learn new things and rediscover the power of the beginner’s mind in overcoming life’s challenges. In addition to this theme of “getting’ down to business,” I will be posting other tools, thoughts and resources that are of general interest to contortionists who are giving themselves a good kick in the pants on the way to success and happiness.

Just Think Differently.