Comments on: To the Pain: Is Writing a Career or a Hobby? https://authorkristenlamb.com/2023/01/to-the-pain-is-writing-a-career-or-a-hobby/ Author, Blogger, Social Media Jedi Wed, 22 Feb 2023 19:56:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.8 By: Kristen Lamb https://authorkristenlamb.com/2023/01/to-the-pain-is-writing-a-career-or-a-hobby/#comment-116272 Wed, 22 Feb 2023 19:56:25 +0000 https://authorkristenlamb.com/?p=30801#comment-116272 In reply to Barbara Meyers.

I feel you. All I can say is generally I have been pretty spot on with my predictions. I think traditional will revitalize, we’re just in the span of suck following bad business decisions. Like the span between Web 1.0 (Dot Com crash) and the emergence of Web 2.0 (user-generated content). You might check around and see if there are any boutique publishers, cottage publishers or indie publishers to take a lot of the workload off. Other than that? No idea.

Just keep writing and the bugs will sort out. Amazon can’t just keep throwing the slush pile at readers. The industry is going to have to evolve (again). It’s been through probably 20 new iterations at least since 2012.

]]> By: Barbara Meyers https://authorkristenlamb.com/2023/01/to-the-pain-is-writing-a-career-or-a-hobby/#comment-116271 Wed, 22 Feb 2023 15:14:51 +0000 https://authorkristenlamb.com/?p=30801#comment-116271 Kristen, lately I’ve been wondering why anyone becomes a writer. When I started, I didn’t realize I’d eventually be running my own business!! I don’t know if knowing that would have changed anything, at the time or not. I love to write, but all the many aspects of publishing my work? Not so much.

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]]> By: Kristen Lamb https://authorkristenlamb.com/2023/01/to-the-pain-is-writing-a-career-or-a-hobby/#comment-116215 Wed, 25 Jan 2023 16:28:50 +0000 https://authorkristenlamb.com/?p=30801#comment-116215 In reply to claragbush29.

Clara, how old were these best-sellers if I might ask?

]]> By: Kristen Lamb https://authorkristenlamb.com/2023/01/to-the-pain-is-writing-a-career-or-a-hobby/#comment-116214 Wed, 25 Jan 2023 16:28:16 +0000 https://authorkristenlamb.com/?p=30801#comment-116214 In reply to raynayday.

LOL, most of the time I don’t notice. OR if y’all don’t tattle on yourselves I do a Quick Edit. But flattery is ALWAYS approved and really happy you enjoyed the post. Great to know you!

]]> By: raynayday https://authorkristenlamb.com/2023/01/to-the-pain-is-writing-a-career-or-a-hobby/#comment-116212 Tue, 24 Jan 2023 21:18:30 +0000 https://authorkristenlamb.com/?p=30801#comment-116212 Oh dear. I spelled your name wrong, please accept my apologies, Kristen. Scots and Nordic, tis always Kirsten here and I was not paying enough attention. Lol. Probably because your excellent post left me thinking. Does flattery help? Joking, it really was an excellent post and I feel terrible for spelling your name incorrectly. Kristen

]]> By: raynayday https://authorkristenlamb.com/2023/01/to-the-pain-is-writing-a-career-or-a-hobby/#comment-116211 Tue, 24 Jan 2023 21:12:57 +0000 https://authorkristenlamb.com/?p=30801#comment-116211 I started reading your article Kirsten thinking to do my usual skim and delete but I sat here and read it all. Interesting and true to life. In the past I was trad published. Now, (without a deal) I self-Publish. There are positives and negatives to everything. Things change. You are right, you just have to go with the flow. Excellent article. Five stars from me.

]]> By: claragbush29 https://authorkristenlamb.com/2023/01/to-the-pain-is-writing-a-career-or-a-hobby/#comment-116209 Tue, 24 Jan 2023 20:00:21 +0000 https://authorkristenlamb.com/?p=30801#comment-116209 Great Blog, Kristen. Thank you for the motivation. At this time, my frustration comes after just purchasing two novels that were highly acclaimed Best Sellers, (traditionally published) that I couldn’t finish because they were so tedious and laborious to read. I kept reading, because I reminded myself they were bestsellers. Then, half way through, I realized I hated the books and was wasting my time. I read the reviews and numerous reviewers had the same experience I did. How these books get traditionally published and a great debut author is overlooked, is beyond me. Whew. Vented that out. Thanks. (Your left-handed snake handler, on target!)

]]> By: Mischa Eliot https://authorkristenlamb.com/2023/01/to-the-pain-is-writing-a-career-or-a-hobby/#comment-116164 Mon, 16 Jan 2023 17:42:30 +0000 https://authorkristenlamb.com/?p=30801#comment-116164 The main reason I love reading your blog is because you don’t pull punches. I’ve spent the last 3ish years fantasizing more than writing. I have also been plotting several books that tie into each other, but not doing the writing.

Between impostor syndrome and it’s already been written syndrome writing is harder than anything else right now. I want to do the work without doing the work and that’s not possible.

Luckily, I have an amazing support group and they nudge me to putting words down. Writing is life and life is pain, but worth every single torturous moment. XoXo

]]> By: markofthefaerie https://authorkristenlamb.com/2023/01/to-the-pain-is-writing-a-career-or-a-hobby/#comment-116163 Mon, 16 Jan 2023 15:18:08 +0000 https://authorkristenlamb.com/?p=30801#comment-116163 Great post, Kristen. The entire book creation process can be painful, especially when one is just starting out and learning what an uphill climb it is to publishing. It’s a big mound of fear we have to face, and for me, climbing each one of those fear mounds has been a huge accomplishment. After years of trying to find the right agent, I created my own publishing company, and with help from two great editors, an amazing book designer, multiple proof readers, I now have 3 books published with the fourth coming out this fall. As a business woman, the working end of this venture has been easy to grasp. It’s the marketing and building my social media platform that has been most painful. No, I’m not making enough to support myself, no yet anyway, but I do received little royalty payments that show up in my checking account pretty much every month. And when I make a connection with another soul, someone I’ve never met who loves my books, well, that’s called pure joy and it’s worth all the pain it took to get there. The statement you made in this post says it all: “Believe it or not, most of being successful in anything is the discipline to consistently show up.” Thanks for reminding us of that.

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