📖 Writer’s Tip: Blaze Your Own Trail

Don’t Follow the Herd

The herd mentality is alive and well in the writing business. You look at what’s selling on Amazon and decide that you should follow that herd because if other writers are making a killing in sci-fi, why shouldn’t you?

Or you hear of someone in a Facebook group who is making a bundle writing romance, so you figure, why shouldn’t you, even though you’ve never even read a romance, much less written one.

Just remember this when you decide to follow the herd; sometimes the herd turns and tramples you into the ground.

Rather than following the herd, look for ways to start your own herd. You do that by focusing on becoming a better writer, not a better follower.

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