Overview

Paul finished his first book and is working on his second. Unlike many, he wants to get the first one out and not hold onto it while he works on the second one.

Being a musician, there are some comparisons he makes to publishing. There are some things that are different, but we discuss options for what to do after your first book is published.

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Transcript

[00:00:49] Stephen: Okay. Transitioned into some other stuff. So let's move on to the parking, the craft and business aspect of the books. You've written one book in you're working on another and some [00:01:00] short stories. What are you doing different now than what you did clear back at the beginning?

[00:01:05] Paul: I have a much kind of clear vision of what my writing style is and where I'm trying to go.

I feel like your first book is the hardest because. You're not just writing your story, you are developing your voice and how you tell stories and how you approach a fleshing out a narrative. Are you the kind of writer that's just quick and to the point, are you the kind of rider that likes to meander and there's no real wrong way to do it?

The reader has their different tastes. And one person who thinks something is overly bloated and self-indulgent the next person be like, oh, it was amazing. And it was immersive. And so it's, you don't have to try to be anything. You're not, you just kind of have to discover who you are and bring it out from that perspective.

[00:01:54] Stephen: And what a software and services do you like to use, whether it's [00:02:00] writing or marketing or.

[00:02:02] Paul: So I everything's on Microsoft word or bullish, short stories. I write them on my phone, just using my apple notes program. And I just, because I'm in the phase right now where I'm always trying to get my kids to go to bed and sometimes they fight me on it.

And so what I'll do is I'll just sit next to them. Usually my daughter will sit next to her and you know, I can try it leaves you like dad or they'll leave. I'm like it's okay kid. I'll sit right here and I'll sit there and I'll just write from 15. And just work on my next short story. And I got a couple of them that they usually have one or two on my phone I'm working on.

And then one or two on my computer, like after I get like the first draft I'm on a phone, I'll dump it into my computer and then I'll start developing it on my computer when I have time. But then I have other ones in my phone that I'm working on any given time, but you'll get a steal 15 minutes here, 20 minutes there and just Peck away at it as time.

Yeah, so I don't have any fancy writing software. I don't [00:03:00] have any fancy editing software. I'm old school. I just keep kneading the dough until I feel like it's finished. And then when I want to actually put something out into the world, I have, I have an editing service that I'll use. And. We'll do story editing, just a copy, editing that whole thing, and I'll let the pro state put their eyes on it and then I'll go through it and I'll fix it that way.

And then I'll put it out. Got it. So I always feel like, and again, taking it back to music right now. I just got a bunch of demo tapes. I'm not going to send it out into the world and tell it's mixed and mastered. Got

[00:03:36] Stephen: it. So what are you doing to market? Okay.