2) Production
This basic business structure is the same structure for any business, regardless of size, although the last one for most will not have publishing. Just sales. Because all businesses sell something, whether you're a Mom and Pop shop who sells only at a local farmer's market or a billion-dollar enterprise.
In these posts I called it the business of writing. I am re-wording it now to be the business of art, to be more inclusive to other creative endeavors.
With these in mind, I am experimenting with setting up my weekly goals to include aspects of each of these. No, I won't be publishing something each week--unless I was pushing to write and publish a short story each week--but . . . well, more on that later.
Research and development is learning something new. For writing, there are online courses (many of them free or inexpensive) one can take--I suggest paying something for these because one learns more when you pay for it.
The production side of your art is actually producing art. In my case, it's sitting my butt in a chair and writing. Putting new words on the page. I have a daily minimum time limit, to see if that will kick my behind into gear. So far it's working.
The sales/publishing side of the art business can vary according to what art you're creating. Again, I'm sticking with what I know: writers. If you don't have anything to publish, look over what you have written and published, to see if a blurb or keyword can be changed/added. Or look at your cover art. Can it be changed? Updated?
The important aspect of these is to do something. Learn something new. Produce something. And sell it.
Is it really that simple?
It can be. If you let it be simple.
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