I could have stayed there forever

Welcome to a more rested and tanned version of The Dave

It’s been well over a week since my last post, and that’s because I had a legitimate vacation for the first time in a long time.

I took my laptop with me but didn’t use it much. I did very little writing, and though I have a mountain of work ahead of me now, I don’t regret it even for a moment.

The time away helped me find clarity, even if that clarity usually came at 1:30 a.m. each night.

I’m typically not affected by jet lag very much, but this trip kicked my butt. I’ll blame it on the eclipse and be done with that.

Early Morning Epiphanies

I don’t know why it was like this, but for three nights straight, my eyes popped open around 1:00 a.m., and for whatever reason, my mind was already spinning in high gear, overthinking things I could do nothing about at that moment.

Except one idea wouldn’t go away or let me sleep. I grabbed my phone, opened up my Notes app, and jotted down a rough outline of an idea despite blurry eyes and a fuzzy mind.

Because I don’t like losing sleep over ideas, I spent the next few days vetting and testing them by fire. The idea persisted, and now it’s become my next big project for The Hungry.

It’s not a new idea, but an old idea delivered in a new way. Eleven years ago, I self-published a book called Selling Art Online, which has sold nearly 20,000 copies. However, it’s terribly out of date.

The thing about online selling is that everything is constantly changing, which is something I note at the front of the book. I had the intention of going back and writing an updated version, but due to some technical mishaps, I lost the manuscript and never had the urge to start from scratch.

But what if I could do it again with an online guide that was more organic, a living, breathing collection of documents that could be added to, updated, and re-edited as needed? The proof of concept already exists in the book, but this new version could become a more substantial reference for creative people.

This updated version of Selling Art Online won’t be available for a while. That’s the mountain of work I referred to earlier, and I’m quickly 20,000 words or more away from launch, and when I do launch, it will be with the understanding that the guide will grow over time.

The biggest question now is deliverability. I’m still working out how to put it into the hands of others because I want it to be easy to use and navigate and doesn’t become something people buy and don’t use.

I’ll talk more about deliverability in the future, but I have much to do first.

And I wish I was doing it from a beach in Maui.