whoa, what a piece! Especially for a young writer, who like yourself, has just started upon his writing life in earnest and is eager to get his work out there. definitely guilty of sending my blogs to others through direct messages and copy pasting onto the comment section! Also sent one blovel ( blog novel ) post to everyone of my phone contacts, which for me I believe was a healthy self esteem thing, kinda declaring to the world that I write now, and although you might not like the words, it's all good, I'm gonna keep doing me and you do you. I have decided to set my sights upon attainable goals... every morning early write for an hour or so... working on a blovel, which sounds gross, but is extremely liberating, a combination of blogging and story telling, in a weird way it feels like oral story telling,as if I'm telling the story in real time. also going with the first draft final draft strategy- to hell with the over thinking it - it is the spirit that matters and if I can channel that it will be ok. In truth, all I ever remember from a book is a few choice sentences... if I write every day that muscle will strengthen and maybe I can get to the holy ground of writing in an inspired state unencumbered by that stupid fearful ego of mine. And the final goal.. to publish a badly written book... this will fulfill one of my fundamental self-actualization goals that would be to describe how fulfilling holding a ( hardback cover ) book in my hand that I had written would be. Total win. But one more note on publishing infrastructure changes - the demand for words and content is at all time high and growing. Authentic creators who can consistently provide for the audience will come out on top, I believe. Youtubers from their basement get 20x more views than legacy formats and this disruptive element will hit literature soon,too, although it hasn't quite yet. We now have platforms where we hand our book, granted in digital form, to the entire globe with the click of a button. Legacy publishing is in truth a paper tiger... they have been utterly destabilized by the technological changes that have taken place, their vast investments in the capital goods needed to produce books rendered meaningless in many ways. The medium is the message and if we aren't writing digitally, are we really going to have a voice in this digital age? To mention nothing of NFT's and the realities of blockchain to enable artists to utterly eliminate the need for legacy publishing. In this machine age, that truly human power, heartfelt creativity, remains maybe the most crucial skillset to be able to have. Keep up the good work I loved this article,
Lapped up every word, Joshua!
Enjoyed your analytical analysis (sorry for the repetition) of the frustrations of getting a toe-hold in the literary freelance ethos. xo
whoa, what a piece! Especially for a young writer, who like yourself, has just started upon his writing life in earnest and is eager to get his work out there. definitely guilty of sending my blogs to others through direct messages and copy pasting onto the comment section! Also sent one blovel ( blog novel ) post to everyone of my phone contacts, which for me I believe was a healthy self esteem thing, kinda declaring to the world that I write now, and although you might not like the words, it's all good, I'm gonna keep doing me and you do you. I have decided to set my sights upon attainable goals... every morning early write for an hour or so... working on a blovel, which sounds gross, but is extremely liberating, a combination of blogging and story telling, in a weird way it feels like oral story telling,as if I'm telling the story in real time. also going with the first draft final draft strategy- to hell with the over thinking it - it is the spirit that matters and if I can channel that it will be ok. In truth, all I ever remember from a book is a few choice sentences... if I write every day that muscle will strengthen and maybe I can get to the holy ground of writing in an inspired state unencumbered by that stupid fearful ego of mine. And the final goal.. to publish a badly written book... this will fulfill one of my fundamental self-actualization goals that would be to describe how fulfilling holding a ( hardback cover ) book in my hand that I had written would be. Total win. But one more note on publishing infrastructure changes - the demand for words and content is at all time high and growing. Authentic creators who can consistently provide for the audience will come out on top, I believe. Youtubers from their basement get 20x more views than legacy formats and this disruptive element will hit literature soon,too, although it hasn't quite yet. We now have platforms where we hand our book, granted in digital form, to the entire globe with the click of a button. Legacy publishing is in truth a paper tiger... they have been utterly destabilized by the technological changes that have taken place, their vast investments in the capital goods needed to produce books rendered meaningless in many ways. The medium is the message and if we aren't writing digitally, are we really going to have a voice in this digital age? To mention nothing of NFT's and the realities of blockchain to enable artists to utterly eliminate the need for legacy publishing. In this machine age, that truly human power, heartfelt creativity, remains maybe the most crucial skillset to be able to have. Keep up the good work I loved this article,
Vince
I’m pulling for you Josh. Do the Ted Koozer thing and stay true to yourself.
I enjoyed your analytical analysis of your position in the world of freelance writing...lots of frustration! Well put frustration. xo