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Self-Publishing: It’s Not Just Writing
When it comes to being a brand, it’s not just writing that creates the whole package.
In case I haven’t made this abundantly clear — I love writing.
Even though I knew this at an early age, I listened to the messages and opinions of others. They looked like this: writing never pays, only a lucky few can make a living from writing, being an artist means being a starving artist, and so on.
I knew, however, that I wanted to make choices involving the arts. But then I tried to pursue things equal or harder to make a living in than writing. This included theatre (I wanted to be a director), radio (I practically lived in the college radio station — I even received a plaque to that effect), and an attempt at graphic layout (attempt — needed more schooling to go down that path).
It took me a while to accept that this was my thing. Given numerous other factors I needed to work on in my 20s and 30s, that’s no surprise.
Blogging is an awesome thing. When I discovered Medium, I even started to make some money from it. But my first love in writing was always fiction.
I tried — for years — to go the conventional route in publishing. I had an agent once — but my genre was not his forte, plus I’d not yet been…
