Learning Never Stops
It is an ongoing Process. If you stop learning, you stop progressing and success will be forever outside your reach.
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Mondays are mad days. Life gets in the way of important things like writing. Therefore I will place only this short piece today to let all the fabulous #Medium #writers know how much I appreciate their work.
In all the years at varsity I have not learned about writing as much as I’ve learned right here on Medium. Each writer makes a contribution to the learning process. At my age, I thought there is little I do not know about the trade. Now I’ve found out it is much more than a “trade”. Writing encircles every aspect of a writer’s life.
You want to call yourself a writer? Be careful. It involves a lot more than sitting by your computer typing away. Your whole being is active in the creating process. Your experiences, your likes and dislikes, your history, everything that makes up you.
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O Kay, you have written your masterpiece. It gets published, yes, you are blessed to have found a good, reliable publisher and your book goes to market. Now you’re waiting for the readers to flock to the bookstores in their thousands and your royalties spring up like a patch of Denney’s Mushrooms.
And then you wake up. Your book is there, it’s available, but where are the readers? O, of course they’re out there, but you haven’t found them. And they haven’t found you, because they don’t know about you. There’s a big job waiting for you to make yourself known.
You’re a writer? Right. You’re also a marketer. Being a marketer is even more involved, more complex and just as tiring. If you want your book to be a success, to sell well so that many thousands of readers can be blessed by your hard work, you start working harder to get yourself out there, get known, your work appreciated and then, hopefully the buyers and readers become fans who rush to the shops every time you have a new release.
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My publisher is a great guy who does his utmost to help his writers’ careers get on track. He taught me all these things mentioned above. I just never got it. Working full time, I never got around to following up on all he guided us to do.
And then he introduced me to Medium. This was the best advice ever. Here is where I found all these instructive and personal growth articles, written in such a personal way, one cannot help but relate.
Thank you:
Ida Adams for the article on hidden lessons. Ida Adams
Casey Botticelli for you article on the pros and cons of your own publication on Medium, CaseyBotticelli
Richie Crowley for your six-thousand dollar story, Richie Crowley
Sriniva Rao for the article on the death of hobbies. @Srinivas
Mieke van der Merwe on your instructive article about getting paid by Medium if you live in a country where #Stripe has yet to reach. This was particularly relevant as Stripe has not managed to open up shop where I live. Mieke van der Merwe
Tom Keugler for many valuable articles like the one about you having had to delete a Medium story. Tom Kuegler
August Birch for your article on top Medium earners. August Birch
Shaunta Grimes for many insightful, but also endearing stories, Shaunta Grimes
Penny Zang for the practical advice on website revamping, Penny Zang
Nicholas Cole, Nicholas Cole and many more.
These are but a few writers and a few articles written by them, that have impacted my life ever since I started reading my dose of daily reading. At some other time I might come back and include more of my favourite Medium writers and how their work influence mine.
At this point I have to include my publisher. Thank you Even, for all you are doing for your writers. It does not go unnoticed. Evan Swensen
Magdel Roets.
Author of Christian fiction, non-fiction and poetry.
I am a charter member of Author Masterminds where every reader is a friend and every writer is approachable.
https://authormasterminds.com/magdel-roets
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