I know I'm not going to book everything I go in on, and that's just the nature of the business. You have to keep hustling and not get down on it. You have to keep at it and find your way in. Everybody's story is different.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I always take a fiction break in between business books to keep the content from bleeding together.
You have to stick out the toughness of the business and form relationships with the people in it.
You work hard on a book and throw it out there and then it's beyond your control.
In business it is most often all about getting your foot in the door and once you do, everything opens up and things start to naturally progress into bigger and more opportunities.
Now that I'm staring down the barrel of the last act of my life, I'm less excited about control and solo effort, and I resent the way the business aspects interfere with my space for creative writing.
By reading, you learn through others' experiences, generally, a better way to do business, especially in our line of work where the consequences of incompetence are so final for young men.
Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.
I've stepped more into my business and really... taken control for how I want that to be.
One of the things I've tried to do in my career is really write different kinds of books, so I'm able to broaden people's expectations of what I'm allowed to do.
You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.