1) Branding & Visuals - Get a professional to get you the best cover and a few associated brand images you can. It will pay off in the long run even if you have to pay.

2) Website - If you choose the right service you CAN do this yourself. Paying to build a website can get expensive - don't do it unless you really need to.

3) Contacts & Emails - Manage your data, and don't be afraid to send someone something ONCE, as long as it's easy for them to unsub. Wix allowed me to do that easily.

4) Social Strategy - Decide on your strategy and stick to it. Going wide is a lot more effort that being focused, but it's a choice I made. It depends on your target audience and who your niche is.

5) Keywords & Paid Ads - Know who you are selling to, and then find those people on social, and use the keywords and interests that your audience has to find them also.

I have more on my blog! https://www.theunravelling.online/post/marketing-tactics-examples

Much Love,
Will Gibson (I'm new here!)

1) Random Notes: Document your thoughts and ideas, quickly. Have something to hand you can capture them all. I use notes on my phone after dreams. And while I'm bored and daydreaming like on planes.

2) Turn Notes into Topics or Subjects: Focus on topics or subjects that you want to talk about and start making lists from your notes. These lists can help guide the next part of the process.

3) Themes: Make more lists, don't just rush to get the story moving. Focus on where the actions will happen, and what some of the actions or themes will be. I listed some locations I wanted to feature in my story based on places I know.

4) Characters: Focus on the DETAILS of your characters. What they look like, where they come from, what drives them. List it all out. Don't jump into writing yet.

5) Storyboard: Spend time listing your chapters, with a rough outline of what happens. Only when you are happy with this, can you start writing.

All of these 5 things are completed BEFORE i start to write a single sentence.

I have more tips on my blog including for editing (ugh!).

Thanks for reading,
Much love,
Will Gibson (I'm new here!)

https://www.theunravelling.online/post/let-s-talk-about-the-writing-process-5-top-tips-for-new-authors