MIND OVER MATTER

You know when you really have a bad headache and every thought you have is painful, well its not so much fun when you've opened up the flood gates to the creative mind, it's like a thought haemorrhage going through electric guitar strings in your mind. That little voice that berated you and told you 'what did you do that for' has now turned into some kind of writing demon and doesn't want to shut up...there's always got to be two sides to a coin.

 Anyway should be off the anti viral's tomorrow but I'm told this headache state that I've come to regard as a bit of an unwanted permanent  lodger could hang around for four weeks. Unfortunately I'm still not well enough to run the seminar on Friday, but next week is another day.

The marketing plan takes it's next global turn over the coming week, the long since planned use of the blog. Commitment to writing every day does have a purpose other than keeping people informed and building credibility for the project amongst others, it is a marketing tool in itself. The plan has always been to release it as an e book and let Amazon and I Tunes see what they can do. The overall content  has exceed 100,000 words now which is bigger than a Harry Potter novel. Although I can't say the content is as entertaining to children just possibly it will have a value to people who would like to make a million in a year for a .98p to be exact, especially with the background comment that will now be included.

Many of the blogs that I write I decide cannot be included fit their outspoken comment or political nature, a little too hard core for the average mind, however it is always difficult to stay on the straight and narrow here.

Writing a book at the end is one thing, but doing it to be released at this point was one marketing strategy I had in mind to try, hence why I've been so diligent to keep it going each day whatever the weather.

I was reading a great success story about a book called Locked Up which was self published as an e book and sold 250,000 copies in a matter of months. This has been the intend route for the blog but those kind of figures are unbelievable, followed by a six book publishing deal... Sounds very good in the fiction section for crime thrillers.

Using the blog as a marketing tool by making it an e book over the next week gives me access to a mighty marketing machine for nothing except the hours I've put into writing it. If you do start a business you might want to give it a go at least you will have a journey to tell people about. Life isn't always about success and for the majority in business it very really is, but it doesn't mean the story isn't of value. To be a voyeur in business is to see all the mistakes, the drowning man without getting wet. But if you do have the courage to take the bit between the old purely whites, write your experiences down. There is another reason for this and that is if you do self publish a book on what you know, it makes you more if an expert than the next man. 

Over the last five months I've been working on a number of writing projects simultaneously, which have added up to a quarter of a million words. The strategy I wish to employ is to use the work to gain readership therefor attention and a potential following as far as players for the game. This is just one strategy and there are no guarantees of success in this sort of thing, between me and my old mum maybe I'll only end up selling two books for a couple of quid, but unless you try you will never know.