An independent author's life doesn't come close to resembling Hallmark stories of glamorous and adored authors dealing with a touch of writers block and a handsome but irritating agent/fellow author/handyman at the cabin where they're staying/pick your own hunky hero. What drives the independent or hybrid author is mostly invisible to everyone except ourselves.
Nobody outside those closest to you know about the rejected pitch you pretended didn't matter or the chapter you rewrote for the third (or thirtieth) time because it wasn't right yet, or the day you only managed one sentence, but it was the best damn sentence ever.
Independence Day is a good time to remember that the one who lights the fuse of inspiration and dedication is you. Every indie author is self-ignited. We don't have outside publishers forcing a deadline, nor agents demanding the next book. It's just you, deciding again and again, whether the fuse on a story is worth lighting.
Then the book goes out into the world, igniting the firework that's only possible because of your decision to light the fuse in the first place.
So if today you're at the mid-fuse point, stuck in the slow but necessary work, don't be discouraged. Keep the fuse burning, and the fireworks will come!
Happy independence day to all my fellow authors.
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