Write Lightning is a blog from writer Deb Thompson.
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(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Everyone is welcome here.
(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Wed, Jan 06 2010
You have to be out there about being out there
I'm struggling today trying to figure out why talented people with many resources end up fighting the current machine instead of finding a new one. There are two sides to artistic endeavors--creating the art and marketing the art. Many of us are good at the first, but terrible at the second. We know what we have is of worth. We took time to create it. But we seem to allow regular avenues of marketing and traditional methods of distribution to stall the sharing of our work.
There have never been so many ways to get artistic works of all kinds out there for others to enjoy. But this is also a time of transition. People want to get their work promoted by the same old methods. We're going to have to break out of the old ways and be as unique and dogged about marketing as we are about being unique and dogged in creating.
posted at: 08:28 | category: /Writing Life | link to this entry
I'm struggling today trying to figure out why talented people with many resources end up fighting the current machine instead of finding a new one. There are two sides to artistic endeavors--creating the art and marketing the art. Many of us are good at the first, but terrible at the second. We know what we have is of worth. We took time to create it. But we seem to allow regular avenues of marketing and traditional methods of distribution to stall the sharing of our work.
There have never been so many ways to get artistic works of all kinds out there for others to enjoy. But this is also a time of transition. People want to get their work promoted by the same old methods. We're going to have to break out of the old ways and be as unique and dogged about marketing as we are about being unique and dogged in creating.
posted at: 08:28 | category: /Writing Life | link to this entry
