Writing Should be Fun

Goal of this section: Detail out the idealized version we had when writing this book, and explain how awesome it was to do it free from all the "knowledge" of the system.

Writing should be fun. Not a soul sucking, querying, marketing driven, form-fitting, calculated, strategic, exercise to achieve enough money to pay a month of bills. Unfortunately, for most authors, this is what it has become.

When my friend Joseph Eleam set out to write The Wizard Tim, we didn’t have any kind of understanding or knowledge about what we should be doing to try and get some sort of major publishing deal. We weren't thinking about whether or not our story would fit in any sort of category box of readers that publishers deemed likely to be profitable. All we were thinking about was what was going to make us laugh.

And laugh we did.

For months, we had phone and video calls, quite literally laughing our asses off as we put this hilarious magical everyman into some of the worst situations imaginable, all for our own amusement.

Then, we laughed even more as we went on castingcall.club and held auditions for voice actors to record dialogue of all the various characters in the book. Of course we picked some of the most ridiculous lines possible for the sample readings just so we could laugh even more.

Then we rolled over laughing even harder as our musical friends composed an original theme song for the intro of the audiobook.

All along the way, as we kept making something that was nothing but a product to generate pure selfish joy, for us and us alone, we laughed, and laughed, and laughed.

There were few things in my life that were more enjoyable than writing this book, and producing the corresponding audiobook. The experience was exactly like how I had romanticized writing a book.

Then, in the end, we had a product that was so purely ours that we were actually proud of it. (Until the birth of my children, there were not many things I have made that I was proud of)