Author: Lancelot Schaubert
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10000 hours rule : is it false?
10000 hours rule from Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers was scientifically proven to be false people say and then they point to a study that actually bolsters all of the chapters of Outliers that surround the 10000 hours rule. I’ve seen links to four articles just this week that did just that: tried to prove Gladwell wrong…
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Succeeding for Others
Chapter twelve in a series on Book and Art Business 101 wherein I show how the solid logic of art business sold me on self-publishing. If you’re too busy for the whole series, download your copy of my Cheat Sheet for Book and Art Business 101. If you want to succeed as a writer, you must take the path that’s…
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Author Earnings in 2016
Chapter twelve in a series on Book and Art Business 101 wherein I show how the solid logic of art business sold me on self-publishing. If you’re too busy for the whole series, download your copy of my Cheat Sheet for Book and Art Business 101. In Any Money Makes a Pro, I took an example of brokenness — Faulkner’s…
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Publishing Contracts of the Draconian Variety
Chapter eleven in a series on Book and Art Business 101 wherein I show how the solid logic of art business sold me on self-publishing. If you’re too busy for the whole series, download your copy of my Cheat Sheet for Book and Art Business 101. We find out in On Writing that Stephen King signed a contract he…
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Kinfolk and Advocates or “How to Build a Platform”
Chapter ten in a series on Book and Art Business 101 wherein I show how the solid logic of art business sold me on self-publishing. If you’re too busy for the whole series, download your copy of my Cheat Sheet for Book and Art Business 101. Imagine with me a whirlpool. You know, Charybdis from the Odyssey. Whitecaps, blue water,…
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Making Good Money… in a Shadow Career
Chapter nine in a series on Book and Art Business 101 wherein I show how the solid logic of art business sold me on self-publishing. If you’re too busy for the whole series, download your copy of my Cheat Sheet for Book and Art Business 101. Once you’ve read The Writer’s Market and come to terms with the good sides…
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Regular Writing Assignments — The Dark and The Light
Chapter eight in a series on Book and Art Business 101 wherein I show how the solid logic of art business sold me on self-publishing. If you’re too busy for the whole series, download your copy of my Cheat Sheet for Book and Art Business 101. Once the rejections slow down and you’ve found a bit of success (or, possibly,…
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Any Money Makes a Professional Writer
Chapter seven in a series on Book and Art Business 101 wherein I show how the solid logic of art business sold me on self-publishing. If you’re too busy for the whole series, download your copy of my Cheat Sheet for Book and Art Business 101. People will tell you don’t quit your day job. Other people say do what…
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Feeling Rejected: Slips
Chapter six in a series on Book and Art Business 101 wherein I show how the solid logic of art business sold me on self-publishing. If you’re too busy for the whole series, download your copy of my Cheat Sheet for Book and Art Business 101. I grew fascinated in this time with rejection slips — with feeling rejected and…
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From Daydreams to Written Dreams
Chapter five in a series on Book and Art Business 101 wherein I show how the solid logic of art business sold me on self-publishing. If you’re too busy for the whole series, download your copy of my Cheat Sheet for Book and Art Business 101. I have a hard time with conversations. Anyone who has spent any amount of…
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Where and How to Sell What You Write
Chapter four in a series on Book and Art Business 101 wherein I show how the solid logic of art business sold me on self-publishing. If you’re too busy for the whole series, download your copy of my Cheat Sheet for Book and Art Business 101. When I went to college, I found myself loaded down with logic and rhetoric…