The Life I've Written

My Semi-Successful Writing Career

By: Steve B Howard

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

I wish I could tell you this was going to be one of those "How to Write, Publish, and Sell Millions of Books" type rags, but like me I imagine you're tired of getting burned by them. Truth is, if any of those kinds of books actually worked every writer on the planet would have bought their copy, followed the directions, and would now be happily counting their money as their book sales rocketed into the stratosphere. This ain't that type of book. This one is more like a combo of Goldberg's Writing Down the Bones, Pressfield's The War of Art, with a dash of King's On Writing stirred in for good measure. It is a collection of short personal essays I've written over the years about all the things I've learned as a writer during the past two decades. I've divided it into five sections, Nuts and Bolts, Building a Following, Promoting, and Marketing Stuff, The Rants and Some Misc. Stuff, Medium Stuff, and Inspiring Stuff. Nuts and Bolts is all about the practical writing stuff I've learned in the past two decades. Building is all about the little bit I've learned about getting your work out there and getting it read by people. The Rants is all about the frustration of being a creative type mixed with a very heavy dose of humor. Medium is all about the free blogging platform that I have been using for the past three years to get my voice out there. Though I bitch and complain about it a lot as well. Inspiring is all about the stuff that helps keep me going, keeps me coming back and putting in the work to get my words out there. I hope those of you that read this little book finding it helpful and maybe as a catalyst to either get you writing or keep you writing.