#2568 - Failure Friday: The Romance Writing Reality Check
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2024
⏱️ 8 minutes
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In this week’s Failure Friday segment, we hear from a romance author who dives into self-publishing with high hopes, only to encounter the hard work of editing and audiobook production. Writing those steamy bestsellers is harder than it looks!
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| 0:23.9 | CODieK slash Special Offer. In this week's failure Friday segment we hear from a romance author who dives into |
| 0:40.0 | self-publishing with high hopes only to encounter the hard work of editing an audiobook |
| 0:44.9 | production. |
| 0:46.6 | Writing those steamy bestsellers is harder than it looks. |
| 0:49.8 | Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome to Side-Essal School. It's Chris Gellibou here, your host. Today, that story about the |
| 0:55.5 | romance writing reality check. And let's just talk about Failure Friday, a very brief moment. |
| 1:01.7 | Little bit of a disclaimer. Failure Friday is ultimately about success, |
| 1:05.0 | but it's about what can we learn from these moments of difficulty |
| 1:08.0 | and challenge and struggle that often appear on the road to success. |
| 1:12.0 | Okay, so I don't want you to be discouraged through this |
| 1:14.8 | episode or through this series as a listener shared with me last year. Made a big impact on me because I was like, |
| 1:20.1 | okay, I do want us to be real. We got to be vulnerable and transparent, and not everything does work, at least not the first time. |
| 1:27.0 | But I think, upon reflection, if you listen to these stories, I think most of the time you hear that the struggle was worth it, like there's something |
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