I got an email yesterday from a bloke wanting me to talk more about “writing” and not so much mindset, marketing, persuasion, selling, yada yada yada.
Sigh.
As you wish, my little fledgling.
Here are some not-so-interesting (and kinda weird) writing habits I have.
Your milage may vary using them.
So, do with this info what you will:
- I write my novels in bed
- I often listen to the same song on a continuous loop while writing
- I think way faster than I can type so my first drafts (of any writing — novels, emails, sales letters, and on on, and so forth) are unreadable and unintelligible to anyone but me
- I’m paranoid about boring people
- I’m even more paranoid about boring myself
- I can write okay but I suck at spelling so I don’t worry about spelling words
- I can speak okay but suck at pronunciation so I don’t worry about how I’m pronouncing words
- To motivate myself I simply remember 99% of people aren’t willing to write an email designed to sell their product every day — they could if they wanted to (lame excuses notwithstanding), but they won’t, so there really is no competition
- I am not afraid to use the pronoun “I” in my emails and copy…
That’s it for today.
To learn my wicked email ways, go here:
Ben Settle
