by admin | Jun 21, 2019 | 2019, Asengana, Writing life
You have unreal expectations. Yes. You have. You expect all your friends, colleagues, virtual friends, or any person showing some interest in your person to buy your book. Bad news: they don’t care about how hard you worked on your book. If you expect some kind of...
by admin | Jun 19, 2019 | 2019, Asengana, Writing life
You’re an author and you just published a book. You think is a good book. It is a good book because you wrote it. Hundreds of hours of work and a lot of heart went into it. And still… Your book is just one of the others books. It’s not a bestseller. Most of the time,...
by admin | Jun 12, 2019 | 2019, Asengana, Writing life
When something goes wrong, I get angry at myself. I’m not trying to redirect my anger towards other people. I have the decency to admit that everything happening to me is because I position myself in that location, a moment in time, and a group of people. The most...
by admin | Jun 3, 2019 | 2019, Asengana, Writing life
There is no such thing as writing a bestseller. A bestseller is not a book you write. It’s product. That’s right. You can write a good Final Draft. That’s it. A bestseller is a product sold in big numbers. A product resulting from the collective work of a writer, a...
by admin | May 29, 2019 | 2019, Asengana, Writing life
Congrats! You are so well hidden that even Google can’t find you. Unless you’re one of those famous writers that completely hide from the world, you better have a blog, a Facebook page, a Twitter account, and anything else that will make you easy to find. What if for...
by admin | May 24, 2019 | 2019, Asengana, Writing life
There’s wisdom in the simple sentences. They get to the point. For the wisest of us it’s always this way. Things get complicated when you’re lazy. Laziness coming with putting a lot of effort in finding excuses not to do something. Yes, you’re...