People can be really mean, especially those closest to you like friends and family.
I come across a lot of jealousy when I tell people that I’m a writer. They either don’t want to talk about it and quickly change the subject (which is most of the time), or they ask questions like, “What do you write?” To which I usually say, “Oh lots of different things,” and they say, “Like what?"
I usually respond with, “I write words.” I mean, what am I going to say? I earn money from my writing in so many different ways that explaining to them what I do would take time.
Then they ask the really stupid question. “Have I Ever Read Anything You’ve Written?”
Please, people! Come on! How on earth could I know every single thing you’ve ever read in your life?
Often I just tell people to Google me if they want to know more.
I usually stay away from other people as much as I can because they take up too much of my valuable time.
Just as an example of how much I stay away, last week, my husband and I had to walk into town to buy a few things. Instead of walking up and down the main street where we usually run into people we know, we went via a side street, straight into the shop we needed, and came back up an alley and through a field, just to avoid having to speak to anyone.
Does that make me anti-social? Probably.
But if I were a famous writer, I’d avoid people anyway.
And that’s that best way to make it to the top is to act like it’s already happened.
If you want to be a millionaire author, act like you already are one. So instead of wasting time hanging around the proverbial water cooler and gossiping, or wasting time on anti-social media (it’s never social, IMHO), write more books instead. That’s what best-selling authors do.
Remember that people will always treat you the way you allow them to.
So get charisma and poise and don’t let others look down on you.
Stick to your writing mission no matter what.
I did it, even when others thought I was mad and told me I was wasting my time doing writing courses and locking myself indoors writing and submitting articles and short stories to magazines.
But ha-ha to them because it worked. And now they don’t want to discuss it.
I recently read a book that really helped me with all this too and made me realise more than ever that I was right, right, right, to ignore everyone and stick to my mission.
Persuasion Secrets of the World's Most Charismatic & Influential Villains
A short but extremely insightful little book that helps you to do more and to care less.
This little book can be read in less than an hour, but you’ll want to read it again and again.
http://viewbook.at/villains
I come across a lot of jealousy when I tell people that I’m a writer. They either don’t want to talk about it and quickly change the subject (which is most of the time), or they ask questions like, “What do you write?” To which I usually say, “Oh lots of different things,” and they say, “Like what?"
I usually respond with, “I write words.” I mean, what am I going to say? I earn money from my writing in so many different ways that explaining to them what I do would take time.
Then they ask the really stupid question. “Have I Ever Read Anything You’ve Written?”
Please, people! Come on! How on earth could I know every single thing you’ve ever read in your life?
Often I just tell people to Google me if they want to know more.
I usually stay away from other people as much as I can because they take up too much of my valuable time.
Just as an example of how much I stay away, last week, my husband and I had to walk into town to buy a few things. Instead of walking up and down the main street where we usually run into people we know, we went via a side street, straight into the shop we needed, and came back up an alley and through a field, just to avoid having to speak to anyone.
Does that make me anti-social? Probably.
But if I were a famous writer, I’d avoid people anyway.
And that’s that best way to make it to the top is to act like it’s already happened.
If you want to be a millionaire author, act like you already are one. So instead of wasting time hanging around the proverbial water cooler and gossiping, or wasting time on anti-social media (it’s never social, IMHO), write more books instead. That’s what best-selling authors do.
Remember that people will always treat you the way you allow them to.
So get charisma and poise and don’t let others look down on you.
Stick to your writing mission no matter what.
I did it, even when others thought I was mad and told me I was wasting my time doing writing courses and locking myself indoors writing and submitting articles and short stories to magazines.
But ha-ha to them because it worked. And now they don’t want to discuss it.
I recently read a book that really helped me with all this too and made me realise more than ever that I was right, right, right, to ignore everyone and stick to my mission.
Persuasion Secrets of the World's Most Charismatic & Influential Villains
A short but extremely insightful little book that helps you to do more and to care less.
This little book can be read in less than an hour, but you’ll want to read it again and again.
http://viewbook.at/villains
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