Hi, I’m Nigel George. But you can call me Nige – everyone else does.
If you’ve come looking for another Internet guru, you’re in the wrong place. I made a success of my writing career by doing exactly the opposite of what the Internet guru’s say.
But this is not about me; it’s about you. I am guessing you’re wondering:
Is This Guy Worth My Time and Attention?
I am at the point in my life where I often ask myself the same question – why would I listen to me if I were someone else?It has been ten years since I first self-published a computer programming textbook, and seven years since I published Self Publishing Success. They did really well. Well enough that I lived off the income for a while before I began to miss working with people every day and went back to a day job.
So, would I listen to what I wrote back then now? Unlikely. Not because they were bad books, but because they answer a different set of questions to the ones I am asking now.
What I most urgently want to know now is how do I free that creative kid I buried in my late teens to pursue a “respectable” career? How do I get past my own hang ups, baggage, self-doubt and fear and just write something, or paint something or do anything confidently that’s not a fucking spreadsheet or business report?
If you are a later career professional who has buried your creative side for too long, and wake up every day frustrated because you know you are your own worst enemy, I believe we have something to share.
I’m nobody’s guru. I don’t have all the answers for myself, let alone anyone else right now. But I’m willing to share the journey.
Partly because if I don’t do this publicly, I’ll never do it.
Partly because I believe many of us need to find that creative kid again for our own sanity.
And wholly because in this broken world of bots, narcissistic billionaires and fucked up ideologies, rediscovering the joy of what it is to be a creative human is likely to be the most important thing we do with the rest of our lives.
If anything I’m saying strikes a chord, reach out and say hi.
Nige 🙂