{"id":2905,"date":"2023-07-11T18:27:42","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T17:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=2905"},"modified":"2023-07-11T18:27:42","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T17:27:42","slug":"review-self-discipline-for-writers-writing-is-hard-but-you-too-can-write-and-publish-books-regularly-by-martin-meadows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/review-self-discipline-for-writers-writing-is-hard-but-you-too-can-write-and-publish-books-regularly-by-martin-meadows\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Self-Discipline for Writers: Writing Is Hard, But You Too Can Write and Publish Books Regularly, by Martin Meadows"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is an example of a book with a very good title, but little else.  The author appears to have done hardly any research, mostly tells you stuff any writer would know, and the good advice &#8212; much of it is very good &#8212; is obvious.  For example, you should sleep well.  Eat fruit and vegetables.  Exercise.  Take breaks while writing.  There is one bit of advice he gives &#8212; and he&#8217;s passionate about this &#8212; you should self-publish your book, as he did.  Basically because, well, you make more money because you get a higher percentage of sales.  He neglects to say that (a) maybe books by traditional publishers actually sell more copies than self-published ones in most cases and you&#8217;re in partnership with a business that is also trying to make money from your book and (b) not everyone loves to do marketing.   Other than emphasising that one should get up early and have a word count target, there&#8217;s pretty much nothing else to say about &#8220;self discipline for writers&#8221; or anyone else.  Not recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an example of a book with a very good title, but little else. The author appears to have done hardly any research, mostly tells you stuff any writer would know, and the good&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2906,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2907,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2905\/revisions\/2907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}