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Sumit's avatar

It's really cool you went the Shopify route for the pre sales. Glad it's working out

Paul Millerd's avatar

The secret project must happen

Nat Eliason's avatar

It yearns to exist

Iain Ryan's avatar

I think those presold numbers are great, especially direct. There's a heap of trad fiction titles that don't get to 300 copies sold, period.

Nat Eliason's avatar

That’s a great point, thanks Iain!

Sam G.'s avatar

I really appreciate all the writing and publishing insights you give in your newsletter. I'm definitely stealing your Excel wordcount doc!

A question on daily wordcount, sorry if it's a silly one: how do you keep track of what you write everyday? Do you start a new paragraph, write the date and then continue writing where you left off and that way you know exactly how much you write each day?

I see authors mentioning this all the time, but I'm not the kind of person who keeps track of anything, I just start writing and hope it makes sense at the end. So I always wonder how other writers do it.

Rick Foerster's avatar

Hey Nat - this is super helpful for someone tinkering in fiction (coming from a serious, biz background).

Question: how much does your newsletter audience translate into your fiction audience?

I’m thinking about how I can bring along my audience here (focused on work + meaning), into something far different (e.g. post-apocalyptic coming of age story 😅).

If you’ve written/podcasted about this, and I missed it, let me know.