Do 5 Things a Day.

Dear Authors,

It's the grinding of authorship.

It's doing the reps.

Grinding in video games is an act of endurance and discipline—repeatedly performing boring, repetitive tasks to gain in-game rewards like experience points, currency, or stats upgrades.

Grinding is the doing the reps of working out. Commitment. Discipline. Repetitive. Boring. And somewhere, sometime, eventually…seeing, enjoying, and then, maintaining, the results.

Doing 5 things a day, every day, to promote your books, your expertise, your authorship, and/or your author business is the grinding and doing the reps of author success.

• It requires commitment.
• It requires discipline.
• It requires just doing it.

It might be repetitive in that you should be doing it every day, but here’s the good thing about 5 things a day…

• It doesn’t have to be—shouldn’t be—the same thing every day.
• It doesn’t have to be boring. You can do what you like (especially if it’s working).
• You can mix it up…just for fun, just to experiment, just because you’re in business for yourself and that freedom is yours.

So, accept the grind.

Do the reps.

Collect the in-game rewards, currency, and stats upgrades...of being an author.

Refresher

​What kinds of things count for 5 Things a Day?​

Living as a Profitable Author

So good to chat with fellow Chicago lover Mike Stephen on his Outside the Loop program on WGN radio recently about Living as a Profitable Author...

Join Us!

Join me and Conspire Creative for the launch of The Profitable Author: 1,001 Ways to Build a Business You Love Around Your Books, at The Book Cellar in Lincoln Square, the neighborhood where started and ran my first publishing company, Lake Claremont Press, in 1996.

We're providing the treats and answers to all your author income/author business questions. Wine and other beverages available for purchase. Sign up for a free 30-minute call to discuss your author goals.

Sharon Woodhouse, Conspire Creative

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