Secret To A Long & Happy Writer’s Life

 

 

I recently read Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long And Happy Life. Not only did the international best-seller give me good life advice for living a healthy future, it inspired me to pen this post about how to live a long and prosperous writer’s life.  

Some of the insights for living a longer life that were shared in the book include:

 

• Having a purpose, however it is defined
• Eating a healthy diet of vegetables and tofu, typically served on smaller plates
• Having a close-knit group of friends
• Enjoying a glass of wine daily
• To only eat until we are 80% full at a sitting 
• Practicing daily, low-intense movement, like gardening 
• Serving the community (being useful)
• Maintaining an active, adaptable mind
• Making new connections for your brain, such as feeding it new information
• Having mindfulness
• Not sitting for too long 
• Getting enough sleep
• Soaking up moderate amounts of sun daily
• Laughing 
• To do what you love until your dying days  

But what can a writer do to be happy -- and live long?

 

• If a writer is healthier and less stressed, that should make writing easier and their life should be long 
• A writer lives with goals and desires- and is never satisfied but for a moment after finishing a book 
• He or she enjoys the act of creating 
• Writers get to live in other worlds when they write  
• The writer who worries not about critics and only focus on writing will live a fulfilling life
• A writer who doesn’t worry, cultivates good habits, spends some time with people, and who exposes themselves to new places, ideas, experiences, and people is a healthy person
• Writing and taking breaks, including walks, keeps you young 
• Having resilience in the face of setbacks 
• Being flexible about things
• Never stop writing and live in the moment

The writer who loves writing, strives to write better, and who finds rewards other than from money, critics, or book awards shall live a long and rich life. He or she seeks truth and to find the best possible way to convey that truth to readers. 

Write the book with no ending, that is how to approach life.

Timeline Of Major Media Moments

100 B.C - First bound book existed. 

1450’s - Gutenberg's moveable type invented

1650 - First daily newspaper in the world (Leipzig).

1730’s - First appearance of magazines (England). 

1836 - First paid newspaper ads (France).

1850 - The Philosophy of Advertising by Horace Greely was published.

1856 - The first full-page ad in a newspaper was published, in the New York Ledger.

1949 - Network television was launched, in the U.S.

1980 - First commercial P.C goes on sale 

1984 - The introduction of guerrilla marketing came on the scene. 

1995 - Beginning of web search browsers - ebay.com, MSN.com, Yahoo.com. Amazon.com

1998 - Blogging begins 

1998 - Google.com launched

2004 - Facebook launched

2005 - YouTube launched

2006 - Twitter launched

2008 - Google Adwords launched

2007 - The first Kindle e-book reader was launched \

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About Brian Feinblum

Brian Feinblum should be followed on www.linkedin.com/in/brianfeinblum. This is copyrighted by BookMarketingBuzzBlog ©2024. Born and raised in Brooklyn, he now resides in Westchester with his wife, two kids, and Ferris, a black lab rescue dog, and El Chapo, a pug rescue dog. His writings are often featured in The Writer and IBPA’s The Independent.  This award-winning blog has generated over 3.9 million pageviews. With 4,900+ posts over the past dozen years, 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 www.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 director of publicity positions 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, Todd Duncan, Susan RoAne, John C. Maxwell, Jeff Foxworthy, Seth Godin, and Henry Winkler. He hosted a panel on book publicity for Book Expo America several years ago, and has spoken at ASJA, BookCAMP, Independent Book Publishers Association Sarah Lawrence College, Nonfiction Writers Association, Cape Cod Writers Association, Willamette (Portland) Writers Association, APEX, Morgan James Publishing, 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. His first published book was The Florida Homeowner, Condo, & Co-Op Association Handbook.  It was featured in The Sun Sentinel and Miami Herald.