Stark Reflections on Writing and Publishing EP 044 - How To Deal With A Firehose of Information

Having just spent six days at the WMG Business Master Class workshop in Las Vegas, Mark reflects on the overwhelming and head-spinning influx of information, insight, wisdom, ideas, inspiriation, and perspective that he had just taken in.

In this episode, he walks through some of the ideas on how authors can process such a deluge of information and adapt the curated learnings and ideas into things that are likely to best work for them.

This episode is sponsored by Findaway Voices . . .

Some of the elements that Mark talks about are:

• A few key things to remember before setting out to try to implement the ideas gathered
• The importance of first stepping back to take a breath and get perspective
• A list of questions to ask yourself when looking at all of the ideas that you have jotted down or taken in
• The importance not just of deciding on something, but deciding to act on that something
• The concept of EAT, FEED, DRAIN
• The FOUR-D way to update a to-do list
• The importance of taking responsibility for your own career

Mark then thanks new Patron to the show, Matty Dalrymple, and sends a thanks to all patrons for their ongoing support of the show via www.patreon.com/starkreflections.

Links of Interest:

• WMG Publishing Workshops
• Findaway Voices
• Dean Wesley Smith
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• Kevin J. Anderson
• Rebecca Moesta
• David Farland
• David P. Vandagriff (aka The Passive Voice)
• Damon Courtney (Bookfunnel)
• Christina F. York
• Andrea Pearson
• Donna Cook
• Loren L. Coleman
• T. Thorn Coyle
• Patreon for Stark Reflections
• Stark Reflections Survey
• The 7 P'S Of Publishing Success
• Killing It On Kobo

The music for this podcast (“Laser Groove”) was composed and produced by Kevin MacLeod of www.incompetech.com and is Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0