Paul Kix

I write books and magazine pieces and help others do the same:

[Paul Kix @paulkix]

Simple cover, y'all, but a book whose "richness" and "dramatis personae simply staggers," so says The New York Times. And you can now buy this thing from @CeladonBooks in paperback:

https://t.co/JTBnttSWp4

[Hannah Herrera @HannahReneeB_]

You have to be prepared to die before you can begin to live by @paulkix🔥

[Paul Kix @paulkix]

For years, in magazine pieces and books, I've been taking Tennessee Williams' advice on what to do when you write a story and the ending sucks. Now you'll know how to end every story, too.

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[Paul Kix @paulkix]

Trust me. You'll accomplish what you once thought was impossible if you do this.

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[Paul Kix @paulkix]

Usefulness leads to passion but passion doesn't lead to usefulness—not always anyway.

Or, to put it another way: Here's how to make money from your writing.

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[Paul Kix @paulkix]

Be useful. It's better for you and your career than being "passionate." But it also leads to passion!

Win-win.

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[Paul Kix @paulkix]

A lesson learned some 25 years after I started writing. You can implement it yourself in less than four minutes.

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[Paul Kix @paulkix]

You gotta show your work as a writer. Increasingly that means marketing it. You can't produce some major and just expect people to come across it. You have to sell on its behalf. How to do this without feeling slimy?

Figure out a way to be useful to the audience, helpful.

Give them tips.

Tell them on social media and through any other means of communication, like a newsletter, how your work inspired you and will inspire them.

Give them insight into what you learned in the storytelling, or what you learned about yourself, and then tell them how they could learn the same thing.

This is the Story, Teach, Tool Framework.

Story: A story from your work. It could be about the writing of it, the insight gleaned from it, an anecdote from the narrative itself, anything really.

Teach: You teach the audience how you did what you did or what you learned about yourself.

Tool: You tell the audience how they can have the same success you did if they did X or Y.

Every newsletter I write where I mention a story of mine is trying, at base, to be useful to the audience: Trying to tell them how they can do what I did.

Every post I write on LinkedIn is doing the same thing.

Being useful and keeping in mind the Story, Teach, Tool framework is a great way to build an audience online and also never feel slimy as you promote your work.

Lemme know in the comments if this helps you.

[Paul Kix @paulkix]

Boredom is not the problem of your distracted writer's mind. Boredom is your solution.

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[Paul Kix @paulkix]

Getting to the core of you: as a writer, as a person.

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[Paul Kix @paulkix]

How the boxing life is like our modern life is like the writing life.

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[Paul Kix @paulkix]

Three tips from a three-time author.
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[Paul Kix @paulkix]

How to stick with that big honking writing project.

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[Paul Kix @paulkix]

Say it aloud with me. Better yet: Say it aloud AS you read it!

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[Paul Kix @paulkix]

Great writing is never read. It is heard.

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[Paul Kix @paulkix]

Last week I went on a national radio show and got humbled by my fellow on-air guest.

I went on Tavis Smiley's show last week to talk about my book, You Have to be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live.

Just before we went live, I found out my hour would be shared with another guest, Sarah Collins Rudolph, who was in 16th Street Baptist Church when the Birmingham Klan set off the bomb in September 1963 that killed those four girls.

I mean, I just wanted to stay out of her way.

The horror of that day—Sarah's sister died; Sarah herself was blinded in one eye—and how she had to overcome in the wake of the bombing so much fear, and then so much resentment, and how she's lived a life of quiet dignity: wow.

Most of the time when TV or radio producers tell you you'll be splitting time you're pissed.

Not last week. I was honored to be on air with Rudolph.

You can listen here. https://t.co/p7lyXJmNn7

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[Paul Kix @paulkix]

"How Do I Fit In Everything I Want to Say in a Story?"

If you know how to use the A narrative and the B narrative, you know how to tell any story.

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[Paul Kix @paulkix]

And, also, how to ORGANIZE that book.

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[Paul Kix @paulkix]

GREAT interview.

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