I agree! One wonders if that article was written by AI as it shows such poor understanding of human endeavour
Self-publishing isn’t the hard part.
Getting people to notice your book is.
Most authors pour everything into writing… then whisper about the finished book and hope the algorithm is kind.
It isn’t.
Unpopular opinion.
Most people who say “I don’t have time” actually mean “it’s not a priority.”
The ones who get stuff done treat time like the non-negotiable it is.
This applies to EVERYTHING, not just writing ✍️
Agree or disagree?
In old Western movies, the hero wore a white hat. The villain wore a black one. Simple visual shorthand so the audience knew who to root for.
That same shorthand jumped into hacking culture:
• White hat = the ethical hackers. They break 1/2
John Grisham’s Gray Mountain
Wall Street lawyer Samantha Kofer loses her high-powered job in the 2008 crash & ends up in a tiny legal aid clinic in Appalachia.
What starts as a temporary gig turns into a fight against Big Coal, mountaintop removal & some very dangerous secrets
Jake Brigance is back in Clanton, Mississippi, three years after A Time to Kill.
A rich old man hangs himself from a sycamore tree and leaves nearly his entire fortune to his housekeeper, cutting out his own kids.
What follows is a fierce courtroom battle packed with secrets.
No one prepares you for the quiet parts of being an author. The long stretches where no one is talking about your book. The days you open the document & just stare. The weird mix of pride and embarrassment when someone asks “what’s it about?” & you have to summarize your soul!
Being an author is the strangest job in the world. You spend months (or years) alone with imaginary people, arguing with them in your head, then suddenly you’re expected to sell the finished product like a used car salesman while still sounding deep and literary. Some days you
feel like a genius.
Most days you feel like a fraud who somehow tricked people into caring about your made-up stories. But then a stranger DMs you saying your book got them through a hard time… and somehow all the doubt, the rewrites, and the late nights feel worth it. If you’re
A strong thread is often just a newsletter in disguise.
You write 8–12 posts.
You test the idea in public.
You see which points land and which fall flat.
Then you expand the best parts, add context, and hit send.
That’s how 1/3
a lot of the best newsletters start — not with a grand plan, but with a thread that got traction.
Threads give you feedback.
Newsletters give you depth and ownership.
The creators who treat X threads as first drafts (instead of finished products) end up with better 2/3