What's Your Author Mission & Vision?

Are your New Year's resolutions already busted or looking like a pipe dream? 

Sober up and get back out there. 

 

• What are your goals and priorities?
• How will you reach them?
• What drives your writing?

You probably have asked yourself these questions and likely fell short in answering them

Without identifying specific goals to achieve, you won't succeed  

Here is my not-so-secret sauce to achieving: 

 

• Create your vision and mission statement - say what you want to achieve and why - then find the how
• ID the key areas that you want or need to improve
• Prioritize the order on that list
• See who or what can assist you
• Make a plan to act, taking incremental steps in a timeline that allows for paced growth
• Don't give up after a delay or setback
• Balance your commitment to writing with work-fun-rest-chores-activism-charity-travel-family/friends-reading-time to think  

The world of resolutions is littered with good intentions. Then life's reality hits and we fall back into complicated lives of waste, denial, laziness, bad habits, destructive thinking, negative people, and insecure feelings. We must do something to break the cycle that imprisons our way of life. What will you do to change?  

All of those axioms we used to hear as skid are true. Remember, Where there is a will, there's a way.  

As a writer, you are more thinker than do-er. You feel a lot. You dream. You analyze. You wordplay and role-play while seeking a payday. However, you need to supplement living in your head with real-world action. I am not saying you have to grow up or alter your driving essence, but you do need to step out of the sandbox at times and re-evaluate how you go about doing what is needed to take you from here to there, wherever that is.  

Write down your mission. State your vision. Then craft a blueprint to mobilize you to make your hopes come true. You will fail many times in many areas in many ways. That is ok. Keep trying and each failure will bring you closer to success.  

 

First American Novel Debuts 234 Years Ago

“On January 21, 1789, Boston publisher Isaiah Thomas and Company published what is generally considered to be the first American novel: 24-year-old William Hill Brown’s The Power of Sympathy: or, The Triumph of Nature, which sold (albeit badly) for the price of 9 shillings.

 

“It is the classic story of boy meets girl, boy falls for girl, boy and girl find out they’re siblings on their wedding day, girl promptly dies of consumption, boy eventually shoots himself while clutching a copy of The Sorrows of Young Werther to his breast. You know the tale.”

– Lithub.com  

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Brian Feinblum, the founder of this award-winning blog, can be reached at brianfeinblum@gmail.com He is available to help authors promote their story, sell their book, and grow their brand. He has over 30 years of experience in successfully helping thousands of authors in all genres. Let him be your advocate, teacher, and motivator!

 

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About Brian Feinblum

Brian Feinblum should be followed on Twitter @theprexpert. This is copyrighted by BookMarketingBuzzBlog ©2023. Born and raised in Brooklyn, he now resides in Westchester with his wife, two kids, and Ferris, a black lab rescue dog. His writings are often featured in The Writer and IBPA’s The Independent.  This award-winning blog has generated over 3.2 million pageviews. With 4,400+ posts over the past decade, it was named one of the best book marketing blogs by BookBaby  http://blog.bookbaby.com/2013/09/the-best-book-marketing-blogs and recognized by Feedspot in 2021 and 2018 as one of the top book marketing blogs. It was also named by WinningWriters.com as a "best resource.” For the past three decades, including 21 years as the head of marketing for the nation’s largest book publicity firm, and two jobs at two independent presses, Brian has worked with many first-time, self-published, authors of all genres, right along with best-selling authors and celebrities such as: Dr. Ruth, Mark Victor Hansen, Joseph Finder, Katherine Spurway, Neil Rackham, Harvey Mackay, Ken Blanchard, Stephen Covey, Warren Adler, Cindy Adams, Susan RoAne, Jeff Foxworthy, Seth Godin, and Henry Winkler. He recently hosted a panel on book publicity for Book Expo America, and has spoken at ASJA, IBPA, Sarah Lawrence College, Nonfiction Writers Association, Cape Cod Writers Association, Willamette (Portland) Writers Association, and Connecticut Authors and Publishers Association. His letters-to-the-editor have been published in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, New York Post, NY Daily News, Newsday, The Journal News (Westchester) and The Washington Post. He has been featured in The Sun Sentinel and Miami Herald. For more information, please consult: linkedin.com/in/brianfeinblum.