I don’t know if you’ve thought about it this way, but it occurs to me that what you’re doing, how you’re approaching this is pretty brilliant — you have the story you’ll start publishing in April, and then the story of the story, which you’re publishing now. And each reinforces the other, getting us as readers invested in your success. I…
I don’t know if you’ve thought about it this way, but it occurs to me that what you’re doing, how you’re approaching this is pretty brilliant — you have the story you’ll start publishing in April, and then the story of the story, which you’re publishing now. And each reinforces the other, getting us as readers invested in your success. I’m wondering how both will turn out! Again, no idea if it this is by design, but it’s really interesting 👍
Well, it's interesting because I'm not sure that the audience for my newsletter is the same audience that would like a strange little gothic novel. I often wonder if I would be better off talking about gothic literature in the 19th century! But then I see people like Victoria Aveyard who has this cult following for her books and she almost never talks about her characters or her books. Her readers always want to know how she wrote them, her daily writing routine, how she found success, etc. And it's true! I'm a big fan of Anne Rice but I wouldn't want to hear her talk about Interview with a Vampire, I've already read it! But I would completely geek out listening to her talk about moving to New Orleans, how she researched the books, how much time she spent writing every day, how she sold her first book, etc. And I think this is because a lot of the most avid readers are also writers and we want to learn from the writers we love. This is a very long way of saying that I do have a strategy with my content, but that strategy is: Write about the things I would want to learn from my favorite authors.
I don’t know if you’ve thought about it this way, but it occurs to me that what you’re doing, how you’re approaching this is pretty brilliant — you have the story you’ll start publishing in April, and then the story of the story, which you’re publishing now. And each reinforces the other, getting us as readers invested in your success. I’m wondering how both will turn out! Again, no idea if it this is by design, but it’s really interesting 👍
Well, it's interesting because I'm not sure that the audience for my newsletter is the same audience that would like a strange little gothic novel. I often wonder if I would be better off talking about gothic literature in the 19th century! But then I see people like Victoria Aveyard who has this cult following for her books and she almost never talks about her characters or her books. Her readers always want to know how she wrote them, her daily writing routine, how she found success, etc. And it's true! I'm a big fan of Anne Rice but I wouldn't want to hear her talk about Interview with a Vampire, I've already read it! But I would completely geek out listening to her talk about moving to New Orleans, how she researched the books, how much time she spent writing every day, how she sold her first book, etc. And I think this is because a lot of the most avid readers are also writers and we want to learn from the writers we love. This is a very long way of saying that I do have a strategy with my content, but that strategy is: Write about the things I would want to learn from my favorite authors.