Fabio Cerpelloni - Invidious

You can write to think or you can write to present your thinking. Read for free on Better Writers, my weekly Substack - open.substack.com/pub/fabiocerpelloni/p/two-ways-o…

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This book will make you think about writing style in ways you’ve probably never considered before. See my 2-minute review on Better Writers (my Substack) if interested - open.substack.com/pub/fabiocerpelloni/p/you-might-…

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“Since you are a human being, all you have to do is truthfully let out what is in you and it will be interesting; it will be good. Will you be able to sell it? I don’t know. But that is not the thing to think of—for a long time anyway.” — Brenda Ueland in "If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit"

There’s a reason why "Tiny Book Author" opens with that quote.

I wanted to make it clear from the start that we’re not here for the money. We’re not here to make passive income.

We’re here to share a message with “our people” — the niche readership we care about — teach them something useful, and hopefully change minds.

We *must* market our work, and sales might come as a result of word-of-mouth and respectful book marketing.

However, “Will anyone buy it?” isn’t the right question.

There are harder ones we need to answer:

- Who is our reader?

- What do they need to know?

- What’s our book for?

- Why is this important?

- How do we want to sound?

- Is this project exciting?

- How do we want the reader to feel and act?

- What’s a logical way to structure these arguments and stories?

- To what extent are we willing to “truthfully let out what is in us”?

After writing the last chapter, the next question is: Are we proud of what we’ve produced?

If we are, we’ll have done our job and we can now proudly release our work, talk about it with our niche audience, and let the world decide if we should become bestselling authors or not.

Some people will love our book; others will write nasty things about it.

But if we’re sure we took the care that the project deserved, we can always stand tall in the face of fierce criticism and no bad Amazon reviews should bother us.

Most of the people who write impolite, aggressive 1-star book reviews have never published anything anyway.

We did.

In the worst-case scenario, we’ll have zero impact on the world, but at least have something nice to display in our homes.

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"Tiny Book Author: There’s a Tiny Book in You Waiting to Be Written" has started to pick up reviews.

If you enjoyed it and think those ideas should spread, consider adding yours. 🙏🏻

Amazon link in the comments. 👇

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(None of my friends and family members has ever commented on these two little things in my living room. Men are attracted to the bottles of wine in the kitchen. Women look at my partner’s plants.😂)

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You too are invited.🤟🏻🤗 Find out about the details on Better Writers - open.substack.com/pub/fabiocerpelloni/p/will-you-b…

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"Tiny Book Author: There's a Tiny Book in You Waiting to Be Written" is now available in e-book format as well.

I wrote it for aspiring authors -- people who've been thinking of publishing a book but never got down to doing it. If you're one of them and want to check it out, you'll find the Amazon link in the comments 👇.

The book has started picking up reviews, so you can also read what other people think of my second little creation.

Thanks for your interest! 🙏

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Exploring a new writing genre.
Read for free on Better Writers -- 3-min read - open.substack.com/pub/fabiocerpelloni/p/i-know-not…
New video coming soon too.

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Hi everyone. I'd like to go on podcasts and YouTube channels to talk about the ideas I shared in "Tiny Book Author." Do you know any creativity/writing shows whose audience would benefit from discovering my little book? If so, please drop them in the comments. Thank you very much in advance for your help and recommendations. -- Fabio

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When we see the book we’re writing like a snapshot of who we are in the here and now, we no longer worry if what we’re writing today might no longer be relevant tomorrow.

We don’t get frustrated if how we write today is not how we wish we could write.

We stop worrying about making an argument that’s the opposite of the one we made last year.

Instead, we accept our creations, ideas, and skills as they are today, not as they should have been or as we would like them to be.

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Read the full post for free (2-minute read) on "Better Writers" (my Substack).

Link in the comments. 👇

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Special effects are special for a reason: they’re unusual or exciting, or they’re both. Now that the media is full of AI-generated images and videos, these effects have become so frequent. They’re everywhere and most of them aren’t that exciting.

They’re not special anymore.

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My detailed prompt for this AI image: “Generate an image to go with this blog post. Make it visually appealing.”

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