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Steve Scott and Barrie Davenport from the Authority Self-Publishing podcast join us this week to help us form good habits and banish those pesky and soul-destroying negative thoughts that we sometimes–often–have as writers. We hope that they can teach us how to declutter our minds of the evil phunk so we can fill it up with what’s important and more helpful to us as indie authors and publishers.
About our Guests
Steve Scott is an Amazon bestselling author with over 60 self-published books on habits, productivity, and entrepreneurship. He’s built a consistent six-figure income as an author and now teaches other authors how to create a sustainable business around their books with his course called Authority Pub Academy. He’s also the founder of the site Develop Good Habits. When he’s not writing and working on his business, Steve spends his time running, hiking, skiing, surfing, reading and spending time with loved ones. He’s also a soon-to-be father of a baby boy.
Barrie Davenport is an Amazon bestselling author with 11 self-published books on personal growth topics like habits, confidence, mindfulness, and life passion. She’s a certified coach and founder of Live Bold and Bloom, a top-ranked personal development blog with over 500,000 monthly readers. Barrie is an online course creator and teacher and partners with Steve on the Authority Pub Academy course. She has three young adult children and spends her free time reading, hiking, biking, and enjoying her new home town of Asheville, NC.
Questions and Topics Discussed:
- Tell us a little about yourself
- Tell us about your areas of expertise.
- What were some of your bad habits when it came to writing? How did you improve upon them?
- Are the methods of developing habit different when the goal is writing a book rather than… getting in shape or changing your career?
- How important is having a value system as a writer?
- How do you shut up the voice that says I suck as a writer?
- How do I turn my brain off so I can sleep at night?
- What is Steve’s background in mindfulness?
- How do you go from initial idea to first draft, to finished product?
- What do you look forward to writing, but haven’t felt ready to write yet?
- How did you initially seek out those first readers?
- What would you recommend to those initially looking into distributing their works?
- With little social media, how does networking come into this?
- What is something brass tax you would say to yourself when you first started this writing journey?
Who is watching live tonight? Make yourself known 🙂
Joker.
RChazzChute Smoker.
writerwade *poof* Known!
I’m watching because I have a serious man-crush on Steve Scott.
writerwade Heyo
xgranville RChazzChute midnight tokers >.>
ChristopherHawkins writerwade Hey Chris
CateMorgan writerwade how are you Cate?
writerwade Hot. It may be autumn today, but Florida missed the memo. Or it got eaten by a gator.
CateMorgan writerwade move west my girl. 68 here today. Very nice!
writerwade I grew up in So Cal…110 in the shade in the summer–YIKES! o_O
http://www.atimelogger.com/
I like to write at starbucks
ChrishaunKellerHanna that would make me toss my phone out the window
tspaulauthor I discovered a Gregory’s on the east side that’s spacious, has wifi, is EMPTY most hours. I now live there.
ChrishaunKellerHanna my timer is heather yelling at me
CateMorgan writerwade ok northwest
CateMorgan xgranville RChazzChute Midnight?
xgranville RChazzChute Hey, it’s midnight SOMEWHERE, presumably.
ChristopherHawkins tspaulauthor my town has 2 restaurants not counting subway. I just found out the good one has internet. So now I go in eat lunch and sit there til dinner starts and leave. I could work from home but the wife likes me to leave sometimes
writerwade I would if I could afford it. Before So Cal I lived in the Seattle area and LOVED it.
tspaulauthor ChrishaunKellerHanna LOL
That being said, does Steve do anything to garner those first reviews? Especially since a lot of promo sites need them, and Amazon algorithms are triggered by them?
There are also limits to what one person can do. Habits are easier to maintain in a social structure. Lean on the tribe!
Howdy all!
David Anson Hello David
That’s not ironic, Steve. That’s apropos. 🙂
what’s work?
CateMorgan Damn, I had to look that word up!
David Anson This is what I do. I drink and I know things. *koff*
hence the reason I am jumping Genres. Sf to UF
Any questions for our guest?
xgranville I’m curious as to what his background in “mindfulness” is. That’s a term that’s bandied about quite a bit these days. Who he trained with, etc.
tspaulauthor Alien invasion is huge right now, but yeah, UF is definitely more lucrative than generic Sci Fi right now.
xgranville I got here late so he may have already talked about this. How does he go from initial idea to fist draft. idea –> beats –> book?
xgranville Is there anything he’s looking forward to writing, but doesn’t quite feel ready for yet?
ChristopherHawkins xgranville Asked!
David Anson xgranville Added to the queue!
CateMorgan xgranville Question on deck!
xgranville David Anson You da man
HA! College degrees for writers…money well spent.
xgranville CateMorgan He’s so efficient tonight!
CateMorgan I have a BFA in telecommunications and a Culinary degree. So in theory I can run a radio station and cook at the same time. WHich is why I write
tspaulauthor Makes perfect sense. 🙂
xgranville Last one I swear – but is there “pacing” when writing non fiction? Are there parallels to action and denouement in nonfiction?
ChristopherHawkins xgranville I like it!
xgranville ChristopherHawkins Right? Cause I feel like I’ve read slow non fiction books
ChristopherHawkins xgranville Oh, we all have.
YAY! He’ll have to come back after he does it and let us know how it went.
tspaulauthor Also, this makes me want to sing “What do you do with a BA in English?” from Avenue Q.
CateMorgan tspaulauthor The college I went to had the program as part of the Theatre dept. So I did TV, Radio and minor theatre. You have not lived until you watch guys that are not real theatre major s having to put on make up and eyeliner for the first time
I don’t know if your readers would have the patience, never mind you, 🙂
tspaulauthor You just describe my high school theatre experience. Hel-looooo, jocks in desperate need of elective credits! Here’s your pancake and lipstick. BTW those lights are called the Tormentors for a reason.
David Anson xgranville CateMorgan it must be because I wasn’t there 😛 No, he’s usually efficient 🙂