BOOKS THAT TOUCH HEARTS OR BOOKS THAT SELL COPIES When you sit down to write a book, on some level you make a choice beforehand as to what kind of book it’s going to be. It’s going to be a book that touches hearts or a book that sells lots of copies. If you write a book with the aim to touch hearts, it might sell a lot of copies. My friend Christina Rasmussen wrote an amazing book called Second Firsts. Whether you’ve suffered a tragic loss or not, the words will touch your heart. I’ve highlighted endless passages of it because her words are musical. It got me through a tough time in my life. amazon/Second-Firsts-Live-Laugh-Again-ebook/dp/B00F8KX5AO If you write a book designed to sell lots of copies, it will likely fail on both counts. When the freakish success of my last book began, my editor Carolyn Messere said “Don’t forget the guy who was happy to sell 300 copies.” I said I wouldn’t and I did. The writing became a form of validation, about the dopamine rush of Facebook likes, and other accolades. So here’s a piece of advice, maybe the only piece of concrete advice in this new book. Start a blog that was never meant to be read, doesn’t cater to an audience, bleed on the page and pour the truth of your heart into it. After 6 months tell somebody about it. When there’s no pressure to succeed, you increase the odds that you will. But the whole time you must approach it as if it was never meant to be read.
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