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Today I want to talk about creative flow.<\/p>\nToday I want to talk about creative flow.<\/p>\n
How do you know when you’re in your flow?<\/p>\n
For me, I feel content, grounded, powerful.<\/p>\n
When I’m not in my flow, I feel grumpy, spacey, and low energy.<\/p>\n
Why is it important to be in your flow? Why do you think? Without it, it’s hard to do anything, let alone something as creative as write, publish, and market novels.<\/p>\n
Being a creative, in our case novelists, means that you may not want to follow the rules, or do things like other people do them. And means that you most likely find joy in doing things your own way.<\/p>\n
In fact, you may be unhappy when you try to follow the group or do what you think other people do.<\/p>\n
Do you find yourself saying, “I should write like… (someone else),” “I should write as much as that person does…,” or “I should market like that person and doxyz…”?<\/p>\n
Notice how you feel when you hear yourself say these kind of statements. Develop a compass that can point to your flow, your north.<\/p>\n
Recently I was speaking with an author client who thought she had to use Facebook to market her books, but she really didn’t like Facebook.<\/p>\n
In the course of our conversation, she told me that she loved doing presentations and enjoyed chatting on Twitter. I encouraged her to do more presentations to build her audience and not focus on Facebook if she didn’t enjoy it.<\/p>\n
She was pleased to discover my Twitter for Authors<\/a><\/em> books was available for her to learn how she could use Twitter better.<\/p>\n Your creative flow is a complex thing, but I trust that because you are a creative person, you can discover the signs of when your creativity flows and when it doesn’t.<\/p>\n How can you follow your creative flow in your writing and your marketing?<\/p>\n \u2665<\/p>\n I am doing Nanowrimo, National Novel Writing Month, and have written 22,253*\u00a0words to date (*as of 11\/18\/2015.) My goal is 10,000 words a week and a total of 40,000 words this month. My plan is to write a second 40,000 words in December. I like writing at this more leisurely pace.<\/p>\n I’ve been doing a weekly live chat using the cool new tool Blab.im<\/a>. I broadcast the chat live on my blog here:\u00a0http:\/\/www. I’m what’s called an ambivert: an introvert that needs extrovert time, but only so much. You know what I mean?<\/p>\n I make sure I get my alone time and my social time!<\/p>\n \u2665<\/p>\n <\/p>\n “Be wise. Be strong. And always be true to yourself.” — Alura in Supergirl<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cBe wise. Be strong. And always be true to yourself\u201d \u2013 Alura #Supergirl<\/a> @LauraBenanti<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/JSFuyXyFUI<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Supergirl (@supergirlcbs) October 27, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\nPersonal Note from Beth<\/h2>\n
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