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Non-Fiction Author Lab
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1d •
Mondays with Shane
If you have any questions, Shane answers them on Monday’s at 10:30 am. He looked at my website and gave feedback and recommendations how to improve it. I join every Monday and listen to the questions and I always learn something new.
0 likes • 9h
@Christopher Reeves great meeting you too❤️
May 4 •
What conversation do you hope your book starts?
The best nonfiction books get people thinking, talking, questioning, or seeing something differently. What are people having conversations about after reading your book?
3 likes • May 4
@Gary Anderson it’s one thing I miss after the brain injury. I used to shoot trap. It’s way too loud for me now.
Apr 13 •
WD: What part of writing your book has surprised you the most so far?
Open ended question this week. Figured this might drum up some new ideas on ways we can help this community out. :)
3 likes • Apr 15
Probably not the typical answer to the question, but here is what I learned. My first book ‘Living in Shitville - What Invisible Brain Injury Feels Like’ was about an 84 day/9,461 mile solo road trip in the US Southwest contemplating whether life was worth living. Writing the follow up book “Kicking Brain Injury’s Ass” is about the second chances of traveling 2022 through 2025. Life with BI is about forgetting what you did and feeling guilty about doing “nothing” from being on disability. The huge surprise was adding up the miles and days for those trips: 27,138 miles and 253 days away from home without accidents and injuries, dealing with everything that came my way. I never would have had this insight if I didn’t write the book.
Apr 6 •
What’s a mistake you see people make all the time in your area of expertise?
This is probably one of the reasons why you wrote your book in the first place, but try and think of a mistake people typically make. (bonus if you can name a few!) Side note - this is an excellent thing to think of when creating social media content!
3 likes • Apr 7
Brain injury symptoms are invisible. Difficult to describe and explain if you have the brain injury. Difficult to understand if you don’t have one. It’s easy to think that survivors are faking it, why could you do something yesterday, but not today? Inconsistent performance. And so on. Makes me tired just thinking about it.
Mar 24 •
Author Launch Kit Workshop?
I’m thinking about running a small group workshop for ALK users soon so I can show how to get the most out of the software. It’d be 4–5 live calls where we walk through the tools together and apply them directly to your book marketing so you can start getting real results. It also gives me a chance to see what’s working, what’s confusing, and make ALK better… and you get some free coaching from me along the way. Would you be into something like this?
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2 likes • Mar 24
It will be good for me to get going.
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@rene-ready-8673
René Ready, a retired occupational therapist, is the author of the memoir Living in Shitville - What an Invisible Brain Injury Feels Like.
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