Overview

All authors can relate to imposter syndrome. This typically happens to new authors, but everyone seems to experience it at some point.

We have a good discussion on what is imposter syndrome, why you may feel that way, and why it isn't true.

YouTube

https://youtu.be/XmF2nfwZ7tE

Transcript

Let's talk a little author stuff. Since you are a published author you, this is your first book, correct? It's, you're working on your second one. You have ideas for others.

So what are some things you've learned from when you first started to what you're doing now? You're doing,

[00:16:24] Davia: When I first started, everything was just done so rushed within two weeks and then a month later I published it and everything writing my second, but now giving me that time to like really go in, really edit every single piece.

Make it say what it is that I wanna say and capture what it is that I wanna capture. I think giving spent time is what I've really learned in this entire process. Even if one day you can't write that's okay. You're just, you're giving yourself and your work, the time to be exactly what it is that you want it to be.

Apart from that I'm really learning about like social media marketing. It's been a long road. I'm slowly getting, [00:17:00] but right. I barely even post on my social media in my personal life. That's been the major Problems that I've been facing this entire time. So I've been learning a little bit about like when to post and hashtag fees and all of that, but it's been a interesting journey.

[00:17:14] Stephen: We were just talking about TikTok and the videos and ideas I get on and update. Author pages and stuff. And then my wife gets irritated if I'm not reading her posts and stuff. yeah. You mentioned your first book you wrote it in two weeks. You, weren't under pressure to write it.

Do you feel, maybe you wrote it too quick and you're thinking you should have taken long or do you feel it was just right?

[00:17:38] Davia: I actually feel it was just right. The only reservation or issue that I had with my first book was that. I do feel like it's too short and I've gotten a lot of reviews about that saying that it's too short.

So I like to classify it as more of a Chatbook than an actual book. But it just, when I wrote that last sentence on that last page I was like, I don't need to go any further. This is exactly what I wanted to say. But I [00:18:00] hope to make my second book a lot longer. To appease my readers and myself too.

[00:18:07] Stephen: Okay. And how long is the first book?

[00:18:09] Davia: It is 48 pages,

[00:18:11] Stephen: I believe. Okay. How many poems is that?

[00:18:14] Davia: It works out to roughly, I wanna say 22 poems. Okay. And it, I have a preface that explains like the whole book and kinda a little letter to Alex.

[00:18:26] Stephen: Very nice. So your second book's also poetry once that's published, you'll have two separate volumes have you, and this may be way ahead of thoughts for what you may do, but have you thought of combining them into one volume to put out? So people have a choice between individual or the complete volume, making it a little bigger.

[00:18:48] Davia: Actually I have it, but you have some great ideas.

[00:18:55] Stephen: Things that other authors have done.