When you are an indie author, it is like everything is against you. Amazon rules, trolls who write negative reviews, expensive editing, and readers' ignorance. Many people started to write and gave up, because of a lack of motivation.
How to motivate yourself when there are big chances that you will never sell more than five books in a month?
5 reasons that motivated me are next:
Show that you can to those who underestimated you. I was in the situation when I experienced how is to be without support, surrounded by people who disliked me. My keyboard was my only friend.
Expel your traumas. If you feel that there is a secret inside of you, embarrassing or hard to tell, you can write. Make a story with fictional characters, play with their destinies and you will feel illuminated.
You have an audience. Look at your ratings, reviews. First time I got reviews I was very happy. Wow, someone read my books. It might not be the audience I dreamed about, but a group of people read my books and spend their time to feel my story.
While you are writing, you will get focused. It means you will not waste time on unnecessary things or unnecessary people.
Book sales are here. When you sell your book for the first time, when you look at your sales report, you will realize, you have a product and you sold it. You create something. You made it. You got a buyer. It is like something grew in your garden after you bring a seed.
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