by Ramy Vance
One – I can’t believe you’re up.
And two – get the hell out of your office and go somewhere where I can’t hear your damn keyboard click, clacking…
So, I moved out of my office to the much farther away kitchen table, where, for the next few months, I click, clacked every morning from 5 am until my son woke up at 7:27 am (and I’m not kidding … he wakes up at 7:27 on the dot almost every morning).
At that time, I wrote 6 days a week, no matter what.
And then I edited, worked on my marketing game, published, failed and tried again, until finally, little by little, I things started to improve.
I made plans. I stuck to them even when things looked wrong. I found mentors (Michael and Martha first among them) and listened to their advice even when I thought they were crazy (and believe you me … Martha is certifiable).
But most importantly, I click, clacked every chance I got.
And it paid off. 1 year ago, I got that deposit from Amazon with a sum of money that equaled the magic number I needed to be full-time.
Yesterday I showed my wife how much writing has earned us over the last year. She was unimpressed. I’m not going to lie, that hurt and I called her on it.
Her response couldn’t have been more perfect. “I’m not surprised. I always knew you’d get here. I always knew all that click, clacking will lead here.”
(Sweet words, but despite them, I still write in the kitchen.)
Author Notes Michael Anderle
June 14, 2020
So, I was click-clacking all over the lower part of the Las Vegas Strip in town early this year until I wasn’t allowed to go anywhere.
Then, instead of writing “out there,” I had to write and work in the office—an office that got kinda small, really. I’m happy we are opening up because I was going to go certifiable (it felt like.)
For me (this is back in Nov of 2015), my wife had no idea what I was doing with this writing stuff until one night, I was typing on my laptop as we were both in bed, and she finally looked over at me and asked. “I see you typing all the time. What are you doing?”
“Writing a book,” I replied.
“Do what?” (It’s not like I shared with her a compelling desire to write books my whole life, so this was news to her.)
“Writing a book. See, it’s my third. I have two others already out for sale.” I turned my laptop and showed her my little Amazon author page with those first two books.
I can’t say she was too impressed (and since those were the first covers I had for the Kurtherian Gambit series, I can’t really blame her). However, she nodded in the right direction and let me go about my business.
That is all I needed from her at the time, and to this day, I appreciate that she asked, then let me go do it without asking too many questions I didn’t have the answers for had she wanted them.
This happened when I was writing between books two and three. About six weeks later (after books 04 and 05 released, so call it mid-January), she asked me about income and sales and what I told her about my 2016 plans…
Didn’t impress her much (again!)
I had BIG plans for 2016. When I shared my sales goals? (Just an aside, she was responsible for over a hundred million dollars’ worth of product lines for Alcon at the time) Well, my goals…
Didn’t cut the nine-figure mark (or even come close!)
So, I did what any self-respecting Texan would do. I shut up and stopped sharing what I was making with her.
Solved that problem nicely, don’t you think?
Perhaps it didn’t but I was having fun building a small publishing company and writing (clickity-clacking) my fingers to the bones to keep the stories coming, and I had replaced my normal income by this time. I didn’t get rid of the other income, I had just doubled and then tripled it.
It’s interesting how men are built. Like Ramy, I seek my wife’s “attaguy,” and she is the one who can lift my heart with the right words or a smile.
So, if your spouse is clickity-clacking away, just remember that at some point in their journey, they want to hear you say “attaboy” or “attagirl” and know that no matter how successful we authors become.
It’s always the best when we know our loved ones have our backs as we weave worlds with… perhaps…flying dragons in them.
Ad Aeternitatem,
Michael Anderle
Other Books by the Authors
Other Middang3ard Books
Never Split The Party (01)
Late To the Party (02)
It’s My Party (03)
Blue Hell And Alien Fire (04)
Death Of An Author: A Middang3ard Novella
Dark Gate Angels
Other Books by Ramy Vance
Mortality Bites Series
Keep Evolving Series
Fatebound Series
Welcome to the Dragon Show Series
Other Books by Michael Anderle
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