This
morning I uploaded a new screenplay to Amazon Studios. It can be viewed, along
with other screenplays, at http://studios.amazon.com/users/70821.
That
could be significant on its own, but that is not all that is going to happen
this week. Tomorrow I am going to put a novel up for sale. I will explain more
about that in tomorrow's blog post.
Wednesday
I will link to more comics I have drawn, and blog about things I am trying to
do differently in terms of making them more accessible. I will also be updating
my LinkedIn profile, and checking out the submission guidelines for a couple of
places, and trying to find a publisher for The Bear in the Net and Karate
Kat, both of which I think could do well as children's books.
Also,
as I said I would Wednesday, I am publishing one 6 page script per day this
month, viewable here:
That
will become progressively more impressive as the month progresses.
It's
a lot of stuff, and it does relate to the long reading list, and to being
restless, and the other things I have mentioned.
Part
of it is that I just have a desire to share. As much as it is try that I write
for myself, I then still want other people to read it.
A
lot of it is that I just want to be a professional writer.
Everything
I have ever said about needing to write anyway, whether I am paid for it or
not, is still true, but I want to be paid for it. I want to have the freedom to
focus on my writing rather than it having to be the thing I fit in with my
other responsibilities. I have always wanted that. I have tried for it before,
but I haven't been as aggressive as I could.
It's
hard to really believe in yourself, at least it has been for me. Putting
yourself out there is one thing, and then actively promoting yourself is even
worse. I still have to figure out how far I want to go with that. There are
some people who encourage others to buy their book several times a day, and that
seems not only annoying but probably also not effective.
I
don't know what will be effective, but I need to try and figure that out. I
need to believe in me and take a chance on me.
To
some extent I do. I like my writing. As I stretch myself and try new things, I
know I can do it. The hard part is trusting other people to see it, and having
the confidence to ask them to look.
I
have to manage it though, because it is the only way to get the life I want,
and also, it is for those people I care about. If I tell them to believe that
good things can happen and to be brave, and I won't do it, how can they trust
me?
As
I blog about the reading over the next few months (that's my estimate; I'm not
really sure), that will be something I keep coming back to. How do you believe
in yourself? Why don't we?
Maybe
sometimes the only answer is to throw yourself in.
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