You missed 6: Don't be afraid to throw most of it out.





Yes and no, the promotion/marketing is similar.





Here that's usually called a "business plan" or "mission statement", and I can write those pretty well. What I lack is *access* to the people with money.

I don't mean just me, though. I found out what a lot of these companies do that go on Kickstarter is they put together personal funds (which I don't really have) and hire a company that specializes in successful Kickstarter campaigns. There are also companies that specialize in getting venture capital. It's very, VERY hard to get either without hiring someone. It's like trying to defend yourself in court without a lawyer. Which, also, is way cheaper, but way more risky.

Ironically, the place I work full time for could net me a lot of connections, but I can't use any of them because of an NDA and non-compete. I'd have to get permission directly from the owner, which is kind of awkward to say the least.





That's the part that disturbs me most about it. Even if I could pull it off, it's going to be really hard to without losing a ton of money.





Those don't scare me, I'm already a contractor.





I went back and looked at the novel-like things I started:

"Traders" is up to almost 30,000 words now since August.

"World Class" is up to 11,000 words since August.

"A New World" (a barely started secret project) is 7,000 words since March.

So I wrote about 48,000 words this year that I *kept*. I probably toss out about 1/3 to 1/2 of that, so it's somewhere between 90,000 and 140,000 words total. That's with me working full time, plus some working at home.

The larger amount since August is because that's when work started to let up a bit.