Michael Charton

Most of us aren’t getting rich from writing. I’d paraphrase from Gilbert and Sullivan’s Pirates of Penzance A policeman’s lot is not a happy one, but I would hope if you are an independent writer you enjoy it. No one is making you do this. You do it, because you have the passion. OK, we have figured this out. You are a creative type. Sorry to disappoint you, there are mundane tasks. I am lucky now to have a marketer. I have a website. Much of what drives my insanity is Monty Python. One of the sketches I enjoy is the Architects Sketch. One line is appropriate here. Yes, well, of course, this is just the sort blinkered philistine pig ignorance I’ve come to expect from you non-creative garbage. You sit there on your loathsome, spotty behinds squeezing blackheads, not caring a tinker’s cuss about the struggling artist. You get the idea. The so called non creatives who don’t get us. OK, I get it. Many of you are too young to remember Monty Python. I shake a bony finger at you. Go thou and study Monty Python. If I am nice, there will NOT be an exam, but be prepared! LOL. Evil laugh. All joking aside. You do the creating, but if you want to sell, you have to have an enterpreneural side.. Think of that as the business form of creativiity. Think capitalism and money you can invest . in. Assess yourself. What are your weak points? Why I have a marketer and cover artist. My cover artist turned me on to Vista Print. It’s more than business cards. I’m an addict now. I’m trying to imagine my hero Mark Twain in his rocking chair on his porch, with his t shirt and baseball cap. Yes, if you stay on the Independent Author Turnpike, you never know where you will go. I listen to the voices in my head.