Authors, About Your Willingness to Learn Business…
You have the capacity and the ability to learn entrepreneurship, now choose it
“The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice.”
― Brian Herbert, Author, Dune, House Harkonnen
As someone who has observed authors my entire career, I’m both impressed and amused by most writers’ ongoing obsession with craft. Their attention to improving and refining the art and science of writing from every angle. No stone unturned.
A commitment to mastery, continuous development, and new creative explorations are hallmarks of any professional, any artist/literary career. But here I want to insert my yes, and. Yes, the craft of writing matters and it’s not the only craft that matters for reaching your author goals and having the writing career of your dreams.
In fact, once you reach a certain level of skill, an obsession with craft could actually be distracting you from what your author vision really needs.
If you are a literary giant, if you are exceedingly lucky, if you fluently skip from mega-trend to mega-trend in your titles, perhaps you can skip what I’m about to say. Everyone else, listen up. Once your writing is good enough to earn you a…
