Anonymous asked: Hi Nick! I just wanted to let you know that I love your work. I am an aspiring writer myself and I was just wondering about your journey. What got you here? The process of getting your book published and do you ever experience writers block? I just thought I'd turn to one of the best. Again, love your work! Stay great <3 :)
hi :) so …this crazy journey. First, I should tell you that I’m not backed by a publishing house …I have no agent and no publicist. I do all those things myself. I book my own events, do my own interviews …I am not a typical author. Usually a writer has an agent and a publicist to help him or her out.
That being said, I chose to do this because if you wait around for traditional success, many times you’ll wait forever without getting work out there. I graduated Marist College in 2008 with a degree in Film History. I got home in May 2008, went on 40 job interviews, and didn’t get hired anywhere. I was frustrated and I started writing. It started as a story about music, then it became a story about best friends and girls …then it became a story about the recession …and soon it was about everything. Along the way, I got a job. I was a mail runner in NYC. It wasn’t great, and I was writing in the middle of the night..every night
Right when I finished the first draft, in the summer of 2009 (a little over a year later), I was laid off from that job. I started working at a limousine company dispatching cars. While I was in the limo office, I started Adorkablelife.com …at the same time, I was working with an editorial company and a printing house to bring Two Wrongs to life. I started posting on here …the books were printed…and it did ok!
My advice is this: if you believe in the story you’re telling …if you believe it needs to be read, communicated, passed around…then don’t stop. I had friends tell me I was wasting my time …I had people question the money I put into it …you just have to keep going. You’ll work crappy jobs, you’ll tear yourself apart, you’ll seek out help from unlikely places …and in the end, you’ll be exhausted, but you’ll have put your whole self into your work. Success isn’t measured by whether or not you sell a book to Random House …it’s measured person by person …each life you touch with your story is what makes you successful. Be friendly, make friends with artists, and write every single day.
