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Pick Platforms That Build Your Writing Craft
- Choose platforms that improve your craft as well as your fame.
- Thomas suggests blogging for nonfiction and short stories for novelists because the skills translate to better book writing.
Let Your First Book Be Practice
- Treat early books as practice; your first book teaches you to write a book.
- Thomas says the first drafts are 'cold water' and persistence produces the 'hot water' of quality writing over time.
Focus By Genre Or Micro Niche Audience
- Focus your brand either by genre or by a micro-niche audience and be willing to say no.
- Thomas compares Jerry Patterson's genre focus with Tricia Goyer's homeschool-mom audience focus to show both paths work.