I've always known that it's not enough to cloister yourself off in an ivory tower someplace and let your imagination roam free. Once you've produced something, you have to get out there and show it to people if you want them to read and...
I've always known that it's not enough to cloister yourself off in an ivory tower someplace and let your imagination roam free. Once you've produced something, you have to get out there and show it to people if you want them to read and respond to it.
But it's the cloistering and imagining part that I'm good at...
I do want people to read and respond to my work though. Ever since I was a boy growing up very much alone in the wilds of rural Virginia, I've been obsessed with communication. This was pre-Internet, mind you. When I would come across magazine articles describing things like print-based "many to many" amateur publications or primitive telephone-based chatrooms, I'd be fascinated by them. The common element for things that would turn me on like that was always media, always communication. I really think all along it's been about how isolated I was growing up and how desperately I longed to make some kind of outside contact.
Nonetheless, longing doesn't create ability. If anything, just the opposite. The things you long for most are those you're exposed to the least. And those are the things you're least prepared to deal with when they show up. At any rate, I totally suck at networking and self-promotion and all that. Totally.
I'm trying though. I'm way behind all the other books in terms of this - though I've got some real life excuses for that. But I'm hammering my way through a Facebook page, and things are going to start slowly trickling out here. Also, if anyone wants to friend me on Myspace, Doctornaberius now has a page up there, and I desperately need friends to walk me through it. (I've not quite got Facebook figured out. Myspace is like being airdropped into Uzbekistan.)
So thanks for being patient with me, and keep watching this space. The wheels do turn slowly, but they are unstoppable once they get going.
But it's the cloistering and imagining part that I'm good at...
I do want people to read and respond to my work though. Ever since I was a boy growing up very much alone in the wilds of rural Virginia, I've been obsessed with communication. This was pre-Internet, mind you. When I would come across magazine articles describing things like print-based "many to many" amateur publications or primitive telephone-based chatrooms, I'd be fascinated by them. The common element for things that would turn me on like that was always media, always communication. I really think all along it's been about how isolated I was growing up and how desperately I longed to make some kind of outside contact.
Nonetheless, longing doesn't create ability. If anything, just the opposite. The things you long for most are those you're exposed to the least. And those are the things you're least prepared to deal with when they show up. At any rate, I totally suck at networking and self-promotion and all that. Totally.
I'm trying though. I'm way behind all the other books in terms of this - though I've got some real life excuses for that. But I'm hammering my way through a Facebook page, and things are going to start slowly trickling out here. Also, if anyone wants to friend me on Myspace, Doctornaberius now has a page up there, and I desperately need friends to walk me through it. (I've not quite got Facebook figured out. Myspace is like being airdropped into Uzbekistan.)
So thanks for being patient with me, and keep watching this space. The wheels do turn slowly, but they are unstoppable once they get going.
Top Rated Comment of 3
Fri Sep 5th, 2008 17:07
You weren't so bad with promotion when you did that viral campaign for Johnny Fate! (Do I put a period after that? I mean I don't want to end the sentence on an exclamation mark because...
