Hardest experiences - Author Video Transcripts
Video 1 Transcript
Hardest experiences for being an author. There are two ways to go with this. One is whenever you make an outline and you're starting to write the book and you realize the outline just isn't going to work. And so you spent days, weeks, maybe even months planning out the story and these characters and how things are going to go. And then once you actually sit down and start writing it, you realize it's not going to work. And all that time was wasted. That's super hard. But I would say what's even harder is once you write a book and it's published and it doesn't sell, it doesn't do as well as you had hoped. I am super lucky that that hasn't happened to me yet, but I have had books that didn't do as well as we thought they would do, which is not the same, but it still sucks. It's really hard because you plan for a certain amount of financial gain from a book and then you don't hit it. And it's hard to go through and it's hard to sit down and restart and continue writing, but that's what you have to do. It's part of being an author. Gotta keep writing.
Video 2 Transcript
Honestly, one of the hardest experiences for me as an author is not getting paid. When you have a publisher that just kind of bells on you and continues to take your royalties and live off of your royalties and not pay you the thousands of dollars they owe you. When you write several books in a series for one publisher, it ends up being quite a bit of money that they owe you. And this has happened to me more than once. And it is one of the hardest, most frustrating things to do. However, you do get your rights back pretty quick when that kind of stuff happens. And then you can go on and hopefully find a more honest publisher.
Video 3 Transcript
The hardest part for me was very much the query trenches. I mean, I spent years and years learning how to write and working on my writing and getting some feedback that was good and some feedback that was painful, but that wasn't nearly as hard as as waiting and waiting and waiting, querying. The query trenches is a word that we use because it feels like you're fighting a war to get your I submitted and got well over 90 rejections on my work and it hurts. Like, it hurts in a way like you would never expect, but it's worth it because you grow so much in that time. So it's hard, but keep trying. And if you find yourself wanting to quit, just know that when you quit, you're done. Don't quit. Just keep going. You'll make it.
