Afraid of Self-Publishing For The First Time? Don’t Be.

If I can do it, anybody can. Here’s what I learned.

As 2019 came to a close, I was writing poems. Don’t ask me why. The daemon of creativity just decided to sprinkle some of that type of inspiration on me, I guess.

I wanted to self-publish a book of poems. But I had no idea how, at first.

How many poems did I need? At first I thought 100 was a good number. That would be a substantially sized book, right? But as I started writing poems I realized holy crap 100 poems will take forever. I just want something I can finish in a few months.

I googled the minimum amount of poems for a poetry book, and discovered the “chapbook.” 20 to 40 pages, or maybe 30 poems. OK, I could do that.

Because, knowing me, I would get demotivated and give up halfway through if the finish line was so far off for so long.

That said —

The Key To Finishing Your Writing Project Is Slow Consistency

For a couple months, I just wrote some poetry every day. At first, most of it was crap, and then later I slowly got the hang of it.

There were some days, though, when everything I wrote was gold. I wrote 10…