Your First Steps To Becoming An Author

One of the questions I get a lot as a travel photographer is “how did you do it?”: people are curious how I manage to travel all the time. They think I’m either a millionaire, or have some sort of secret. I decided to write my travel secrets down, initially on my blog which eventually turned into a book about travel hacking. When that book turned into a number one bestseller, guess what question I got again? Right: “How did you do it?“.

What’s the first step to becoming an author?

You’d think it would be “write”, but it’s not. In speaking to other authors and from what I know of my own journey to becoming an author, the biggest obstacle for new authors is that they don’t think of themselves as authors. They have trouble developing the belief that they are authors. When you haven’t developed that belief, that conviction, it becomes a source of sabotage – you don’t value your work enough to give it the time and the space it needs. How do you come to think of yourself as an author? Here ar…