In Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick episode 045, the topic is the unfortunate and all too common tendency for writers to compare themselves to other writers. I confess my own shortcomings in this regard, and offer suggestions for a different, healthier way to view how we think about the success and quality of other authors’ careers and work in relation to our own.
Do you compare yourself to other writers, or other creators in your field? I want to hear about it. Leave a comment!
Links and Topics Mentioned in This Episode
- Be sure to pre-order my next work, the non-fiction book for writers, Indie Author Marketing Infrastructure.
- When I’m done with Indie Author Marketing Infrastructure, I’ll return to my next novel, Shadow of the Outsider, the follow-up to Light of the Outsider and “The Perfumed Air at Kwaanantag Bay.”
- Get free weekly serial fiction delivered via email when you subscribe to Hazy Days and Cloudy Nights: “How It All Got Started.”
- Publisher Rocket is a very useful tool for all independent authors. If you sell your books on Amazon, you need Publisher Rocket to guide your choice of genres, keywords, and so much more.
- I mention Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick 043: Writing is Hard a couple of times in the episode. Have you heard it yet?
- James Baldwin was an American writer and civil rights activist of some renown. The quote I refer to in the episode is from this interview in The Paris Review, which you really should read in its entirety.
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