Comments on: Business Musings: Putting Yourself Out There https://kriswrites.com/2025/04/30/business-musings-putting-yourself-out-there/ Writer, Editor, Fan Girl Thu, 01 May 2025 03:34:47 +0000 hourly 1 By: Paul Sadler https://kriswrites.com/2025/04/30/business-musings-putting-yourself-out-there/comment-page-1/#comment-201967 Thu, 01 May 2025 03:34:47 +0000 https://kriswrites.com/?p=36319#comment-201967 Cool article Kris. One element that I wonder about sometimes is if some of the obstacles is something akin to different types of failure in another realm. My day job has me looking at the labour market / employment obstacles for individuals (and groups). Some of the failures include:
a. Failure to learn — sometimes structural, sometimes the wrong teacher, often a barrier unique to the individual, but whatever it is, when an opportunity presents itself, they’re not ready;
b. Failure to launch — these are often people who finish high school (or are finished with high school at least) and failed to transition into ongoing regular employment or school…they often don’t have the credentials/GED or are short in some skills or just missed an opportunity they didn’t see;
c. Failure to transition — going from one type of job to another, they fail to transition their skills from one domain to another.
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But I often wonder if that last one is like the actors. They can do one part of the job — acting — but can’t seem to handle the other part of the job i.e., preparing and handling stress outside of the moment. The skills they have in one area are not ones they capitalize in the other.
I’ve experienced the same myself, in some ways. At work, I write stuff all day long. That’s the job. It gets circulated for comment to tons of people for input/criticism/suggestions/revision. We don’t OWN our products much. But when I was at home, my personal writing? I wasn’t comfortable sharing with too many people. Until I started to blog. Now, anyone can read my stuff anytime they want. I’m not afraid to show anything to anyone. I’ve kicked out almost 2M words on my blog about tons of stuff, even extremely personal stuff I was dealing with. It’s like a personal diary online. I’m not afraid to share much these days, unless it involves other people and I’m telling their story instead of my own. Non-fiction does not phase me at all. Fiction, on the other hand, I’m not as open. I haven’t translated the skills over yet. Failure to transition, failure to capitalize, perhaps.

]]> By: Marc Meaney https://kriswrites.com/2025/04/30/business-musings-putting-yourself-out-there/comment-page-1/#comment-201966 Thu, 01 May 2025 02:57:04 +0000 https://kriswrites.com/?p=36319#comment-201966 I’ve found a motivating way to get my work out there, and that’s posting chapters, as I finish them, up on Royal Road. First drafts, full of typos, just getting it up there. The next day I do my run through of the previous day’s writing, fixing the typos, removing double words etc… I update it on Royal Road, then get the day’s chapter done, and throw it up there at the end of the night.

It’s motivating because I have eager readers wanting to read everything I write as soon as I write it. If I let things slide then I’ve a disgruntled readership. And it gets over the fear of quality and writing fast because readers love the raw drafts… and some have learned to stop at the second to last chapter to give me time to do my copy edit.

Why don’t I copy edit before I post? Because the first draft is good already. And getting the chapter out to readers is the most important thing – they’re eager for it even in an imperfect form. And on Royal Road typos are almost expected and catching them is part of the reader-writer engagement process though the comments on each chapter.

It works for me. Motivating and engaging. Try it.

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