In my last post, I mentioned that during the UW Writers’ Institute this year, Nina Amir closed the weekend with a talk called “Create Your Successful Author Career Plan.” She went through ten (assuming I wrote all of them down fast enough) questions to answer as an author when planning your career. I’ll list them out here, and then I’ll answer them myself.
- What do you want to achieve?
- What are you passionate about?
- What do you feel compelled to do in the world?
- What are your values?
- What topics do you want to write about?
- What theme connects all your books?
- What products and services could you offer?
- How do you want to be known as an author (branding)?
- Do you have a website?
- Do you have a platform?