You Are A Writer by Jeff Goins
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This book is a short introduction into the mindset and practices that writers today can succeed with. It places a principle that writers are mainly designed to write. Nonetheless, there are also other marketing, technology, and networking skills that can help writers, like me, to succeed financially in their ventures.
Goins takes the position opposite of Hemingway and stereotype that writers ought to be “very poor and very happy.” Instead, Goins takes the position that writers ought to write for themselves, and not for others, but that this act of writing should be able to support themselves financially.
I write because I love exploring the world of ideas. I love interacting with others’ ideas in books, and I want to figure out how to be compensated for my interest. I’m not looking for a new career, but Goins’ book speaks to me as I think of how to market my interests towards others’ good and my own financial self-interest.