Forgive me. I’m waiting on family news today and don’t have much of a brain. Instead, I’d like to leave you with a couple of videos of a gentleman encouraging creative businesspeople. Dorothy Grant introduced me to his work and I’m finding it very useful to listen to him. It’s not so much that I sit, watch, and take notes, as I find it helps me to garner bits, come back, watch again and find different things that catch my attention and give me actions to implement.

He’s not a writer. However, the principles apply to any business.

As a writer, I was a businesswoman before I was ever published. And now, I’m facing a great challenge in trying to make a living – which means I can’t just write. I can’t write only when I feel like it. I can’t waste time.

I must, however, have days where it feels like no progress is made. If I cannot write, because there are too many thoughts in my mind unrelated to story, I can at least read and refill the well. Or I can work on marketing, make art… Sometimes, though, doing nothing is doing something.