Short stories don’t move us, short books do.
It’s tough for a short story, a blog post, a tweet to move people.
I’ve wondered why I haven’t been using Twitter and this is what I’ve come up with.
I’ve never been transformed by a tweet. Never been spurred into action or motivated to change my world view from 140 characters.
Multiply 140 a few dozen times and maybe that has got me to think a bit, but not as much as 50 pages of a book or (what feels like 50 pages) of a long blogpost from a friend.
There’s a vast difference between too short, good enough and too long. Yes, of course there are outliers but decide now if that’s what you want to achieve or not. If your hope isn’t to be an outlier, but to give the world something special then don’t live your life dreaming of the grand novel you want to write.
Write a short book that people can pick up and read in an hour or two, maybe even read in the bookstore without purchasing it. After all, the point of writing is to tell a story that changes the way readers see the world, right?
Making money from a book is aiming to be an outlier.
Stay Positive & Go Write Something Special, You’ll Feel Good (And So Will The Reader)
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