Consistent Creative Content by Lee Hall - Book Review
In “Consistent Creative Content: A Guide to Authoring and Blogging in the Social Media Age”, Lee Hall offers a candid and practical guide for writers navigating the digital landscape.
In “Consistent Creative Content: A Guide to Authoring and Blogging in the Social Media Age”, author Lee Hall offers pragmatic tips and valuable strategies for publishing a book and blogging. His advice remains timely and effective even though the book is a few years old, as I discovered the guide through his X-Account (formerly Twitter).
Lee’s writing is concise and straightforward. His conversational writing style makes the book engaging and easy to read. He cuts through the fluff to deliver practical advice and shares his successes and failures with honesty and humility.
Key lessons for authors
Hall underscores the value of consistent writing and marketing, but also provides several vital lessons for writers:
- First, every author/blogger starts from zero. He notes, “I’ve always measured my results beside the number from where I started—absolute zero. And compared to zero, my numbers today appear to be quite impressive.”
- Success, no matter how you define it, is not a guarantee. Hall encourages his readers to focus on personal growth rather than external comparisons. He states, “Success is in the eye of the beholder, and when it comes to writing and blogging, you are only competing against yourself.”
- The third lesson is to embrace failure and learn from it. He writes, “Some call low numbers failure, but to me, there are no failures in life, just lessons and opportunities. Both go hand in hand when it comes to writing.”
- The fourth lesson is that writing is a process, not a coincidence. Lee emphasizes, “The most important thing in writing is to start.”
Minor issues
The book’s wide range of topics makes it feel unfocused. Perhaps dividing the content into separate books—one on writing and blogging, the other on marketing and social media—would have been a better approach.
Some parts of the book are repetitive. Repetition is useful for emphasis, but too much is just redundant. At times, Lee crosses this line.
Rating
Lee Hall’s “Consistent Creative Content: A Guide to Authoring and Blogging in the Social Media Age” is an excellent resource for those who want to write and publish in the digital age. I especially suggest this for beginners who find the many aspects of publishing and book marketing overwhelming. This guide will save you countless hours of research by providing a solid foundation in these areas. However, advanced authors and bloggers will also find valuable insights.
5 Stars
