Think like a founder, not just a writer. A roadmap for authors to stop winging it, treat their books like a business, and start building a creative career that scales.
Absolutely, YES! Being an author is EXACTLY like being in a startup.
I know because for 15 years I worked at Startups helping get them to the next step.
Alot of problems exist because Authors refuse, in many cases, to move OUT of the startup phase and that’s when you run into problems, stagnate, and begin to lose ground and slide BACKWARDS.
You need support to keep growing, to reach the next level of plateau, and make an author career SCALABLE.
Of course, acknowledging you are a startup is the first step to recognizing when it's time for growth, hiring help, and creating systems and structure to create brilliance.
It's a topic Mal and I discuss sometimes so maybe one day I'll write a companion piece, but right now the big thing on my heart to write is 'Everything about immersive content, I learned from the Muppets."
I just posted part 1! I'll be doing maybe tomorrow on tips, tricks, and how not to break your own immersion. (I'm looking at you, break up of Piggy and Kermit)
Yeah. The advice is you should become a unicorn. You have learned all the things you can learn without the right community, and what’s left is iterating on the weird things that are working for people that aren’t scalable.
You have done everything the “right way” your whole career, but true breakthroughs usually come from doing things the wrong way at the right time.
otherwise, I mean I list what to do in this article. I don’t have other advice outside the archives and books.
Absolutely, YES! Being an author is EXACTLY like being in a startup.
I know because for 15 years I worked at Startups helping get them to the next step.
Alot of problems exist because Authors refuse, in many cases, to move OUT of the startup phase and that’s when you run into problems, stagnate, and begin to lose ground and slide BACKWARDS.
You need support to keep growing, to reach the next level of plateau, and make an author career SCALABLE.
Of course, acknowledging you are a startup is the first step to recognizing when it's time for growth, hiring help, and creating systems and structure to create brilliance.
100%. I love it.
It's a topic Mal and I discuss sometimes so maybe one day I'll write a companion piece, but right now the big thing on my heart to write is 'Everything about immersive content, I learned from the Muppets."
I want that article please.
I just posted part 1! I'll be doing maybe tomorrow on tips, tricks, and how not to break your own immersion. (I'm looking at you, break up of Piggy and Kermit)
Wise words as always, Russell. I needed this today.
I'm stuck somewhere between Early (which is crazy to think about, because I've been at this for twenty fricken years) and Growth. Any advice?
Yeah. The advice is you should become a unicorn. You have learned all the things you can learn without the right community, and what’s left is iterating on the weird things that are working for people that aren’t scalable.
You have done everything the “right way” your whole career, but true breakthroughs usually come from doing things the wrong way at the right time.
otherwise, I mean I list what to do in this article. I don’t have other advice outside the archives and books.
YES. Exactly this.