I listened to a training video by bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith who has been in the publishing business for over 50 years. Yes, five decades! One of the points he made in the video (well, truth be told, he makes many great points but I'll limit to just one right here) is to keep learning. Always. So many authors came onto the self-publishing scene 5, 10, 15 years ago, and . . . where are they now? They stopped learning.
Even many traditionally published authors seemed to have vanished. Not all, but many who were considered the greatest at the time, have now gone bye bye.
Why?
I can only speculate, but it's possible that they also stopped learning. They stopped reading and expanding their knowledge.
I learn more with each and every story that I write, no matter if it's a short story or a large novel. There is so much to learn that I yearn to stretch myself even further.
What are you doing to expand your knowledge?
What are you practicing on to get better and better?
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