Keep Quiet and Listen
Every day I find new applications for the best advice I ever received:
Every day I find new applications for the best advice I ever received:
Autonomous. Authentic. These words remain in my head from a discussion I had with a friend last night. I kept thinking of them this morning, before I got out of bed, trying to understand their importance. In conversations with friends, thoughts put on paper for my next book or ideas I got from other people, I returned to the same issue: slavery.
In essence, a writer uses social media to promote himself and his books, but also to provide better customer service to his clients. A professional makes money from the products and services he provides and the customer relationship management that goes with it. A writer must do the same.
I love tiramisu. I’ve eaten tiramisu in different forms, in restaurants with different themes in different countries. Each version of the recipe I liked for one reason or another. I never tried to make tiramisu until now because I perceived it as difficult. I think a cake is good because of components as much as for the love that goes in the cooking.
In time I developed a particular sense for books. I look at a book, I feel a need to look left and right, to be sure no one else saw her, and I reach to take her. I know that she (one of the best things about my native language is that all books are a she and not an “it”) will give me access to a new universe where I will laugh, I will cry and that will satisfy my hunger for a while.