You want to write a book. Part Two

You have taken the plunge. You have written a story you feel is different than what is currently out. Great.
So your story is different than the mating of mortals with Demigods, Paranormals, Aliens, and Faeries? (I'm sure there are more, I can't recall them all)
Awesome.
It doesn't involve some weird chance meeting, an accident, and that moment of instant love caught between the glances then they realize they cant be together or one of them knows they shouldn't but they do any way?
Amazing.
So along with the new, never before read, story you now have to spend a majority of your time on social media advertising your greatness to get the attention it deserves. Of course you will have to realize, without a current following of people you have teased with small clips of your story for a year or two, your voice is the smallest blip on the radar of over a hundred thousand others doing the same thing. Wanting to be heard. More often than not you are shouting to other authors and not many readers. Those that read don't want you advertising on their page, its tacky. You have to find other sites to do so along with your own and again, where you are advertising is a place where thousand of other authors are posting. Within seconds of planting your ad, a hundred more will pop up.
Still feel brave enough to handle the masses that came out before you?
What if you don't enjoy having to post everyday on social media?
What if making teasers is not your thing? You can't find that quirky line, phrase or picture that will intrigue people to read your tale. What if all you wanted to do was to write a book, publish it and simply say, 'I did what others haven't, or thought that I couldn't' well, congratulations on your success.
A small step is better than no step at all.
But in reality you want more, you want to be a bigger success, a bigger sensation, you want people to see your name and go, 'She got another book out! I have to tell my friends' and just incase you didn't know, women read more than men. There are male authors out there, but not many male readers.
In order to get to the 'gotta have her book' stage, it takes a lot of effort on your part. Alone. Yes, you have to do the work yourself until you have amassed so many you can recruit help. Which you may or may not have to pay for. Some will help you because its something that comes easy to them and in exchange, you make an effort to post, make teasers and advertise snippets.
Still feel like you can make it?
Are you ready to hand out thousands of copies of your book every month hoping to get reviews for each of them?
Yes, you read that correctly. You will have to send out thousands of copies of your work by either, contests, giveaways, or advertising. Just like anyone seeing a post for FREE, you will download it then forget you have it. Very rarely people will read a book once they download it and it doesn't mean they will leave a review. Wondering why not? Well, its not a rush, not an important issue and someone else can leave one if you don't have any. Who wants to be the first one to leave a review? Speaking of, prepare yourself for the downwind of insults, negative remarks and down right ugly tones people will say about your work. Let it not be edited properly and there will be judgment. Don't perform proper research, saying you need a passport to travel from Boston to California, and it will get talked about. Lose track of your characters names, have a character dead in one scene but alive four chapters later and they aren't an immortal, paranormal or alien. Granted what you are writing is complete fiction, but there are still rules to follow and if you break any of them, it will be all over social media. Granted, you will gain the attention you wanted, just not in the way you wanted it.
Still not backing down? Still feel you are able to be on the top of the writers mound?
Great.
So you wrote one book, your characters were well thought out and the story came to an end. You are awakened at 2am by another voice and you don't want to leave the comfort of your bed. You go back to sleep, ignoring the voice telling yourself you will remember it later. You wake up an hour before work and the thought that came to you is gone, your voice has gone to sleep and you know what you heard was really great. Cant understand what happened? You rattled your brain to remember but cant? You may want to take a second to remember who is in charge. Your voice. Not you, your voice or voices. The voices of your characters are your boss and you have to do what they say. So if getting up at the wee hours of the morning is not your thing, you might want to have a recorder handy to keep track. If staying up well past your normal bedtime messes up your internal clock, you might want to bust it up now and get it over with. As an author, you are no longer in control of your thoughts, your schedule or your free time. When a story wants to be written, you need to write it.
How do you think I am sitting here now writing this? Wasn't my idea I assure you.