I started writing NEXT BOOK this morning. I know I’d been hinting that I was going to start writing, and that I was ready to start writing, but once I knew what was going to happen with The Billfold I realized that the...
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This weekend I not only took a new profile photo — which aged me three years in an instant, I tell you — but also finally narrowed down what I want Nicole Dieker Dot Com to be about: Daily posts on the art and the finances...
Continuing our discussion of building THE AUDIENCE — this morning, The Write Life ran a must-read post by writer and editor Dana Sitar titled How the “Ideal Reader” Myth Hurts Your Writing Process: When you set out to...
Before I get started on the work of getting your work in front of people, let’s recap what we’ve covered so far: To earn money from your creative work, you need to create a piece of work and decide how the payment...
Before you can make money from your creative work — before you can even ask for money for your creative work — you need to find your audience. Which, in keeping with the conventions of this blog, we’re going to...
Yesterday I asked whether “does it make money” should be a factor in determining a creative work’s success. This, by the way, is one of the oldest questions in the book, we were debating it back in grad...
I told you some of these would be about money, since I’ve been writing about personal finance for the past seven years — and, arguably, I wouldn’t be making the money I do on my creative work without the personal...
I already had a mood board for NEXT BOOK (by which I mean I had a Google Doc with a bunch of internet images pasted into it), but at the Maggie Stiefvater Portraits and Dreams workshop last Saturday we discussed getting...
I’ve been thinking — and this is no way an original idea, but I’ve been thinking it anyway — about how one of the (perhaps necessary?) components of creativity is the ability to let the creative work occupy your...