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Author and blogger Jeff Goins
graciously agreed to be one of the expert guests I interview for my Beta Authors. Our
conversation was so provocative that I want to share some of the
highlights with you.
Jeff is a popular blogger, writer and speaker who has both self-published
and traditionally published several books, including Wrecked and the
forthcoming The
In-Between. He is especially interested in voice in writing.
In Jeff's words, you know you've discovered your writing voice when
it represents "the intersection of what deeply satisfies you as a
writer and what resonates with (your) audience."
That is a very provocative statement. It means that you need to be
striking a chord in your readers with what you are writing. You can't
just write about what you are interested in if you want to be a
successful blogger and/or author.
We also talked about:
- Why
you need a worldview
as a writer. It's what makes your topic stand out even if you're
writing about sales and marketing as thousands of other writers do.
He gave Seth Godin and Malcolm Gladwell
as two examples. Seth's worldview, according to Jeff, is that "the
system is broken and we can fix it." Gladwell's is: "There is
scientific proof for any phenomenon that we see in the business
world."
- How
to identify and articulate your worldview (it's not what you think)
- Why
he self-published his first eBook, You Are a Writer Now (So Start Acting Like
One)
- How
he wrote the eBook (this will surprise you)
- How
he crowdsourced the cover, editing and formatting
- How
he got over 30,000 downloads
- What
percentage of his income comes from selling information products vs.
writing books (over half)
- Why
he does not
write every day
And my favorite
comment that he made: "What sustains any writer is the perfect mix
of grace and discipline."
Click here to go to
my blog and listen to the complete interview. More about Jeff Goins here.
Or you can download the edited transcript
of our 55-minute conversation for a nominal fee.
Yours in finding
your writing voice,
P.S.
Beta Authors get exclusive access to the edited transcripts of these
expert interviews as part of my 8-week Beta Author Boost program. It only
seems fair that I charge you a small fee to download the 19-page
PDF.
Debbie Weil
Founder &
CEO, Voxie Media
Big Ideas. Short Books.™
email: debbie@voxiemedia.com
phone:
202.255.1467
twitter:
@debbieweil
web: voxiemedia.com
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