Diana Wrote:OMG, I'm exhausted just thinking about it.
Ha-ha, actually it's lovely passing the buck! I stick to my expertise, and I trust their expertise. It isn't without hick ups, but is anything ever?
Diana Wrote:Yes. I know a couple of teachers who started a publishing business. They lost almost everything and were about to be out on the streets literally. But at that time they went digital in the beginning, circa 1990, and pulled themselves out of the black hole. They used to joke that they didn't even quit when it was over. They made it big, and one of them actually bought back the family farm in the midwest.
That's nice to hear. Yeah, there are many, many people who were interviewed in this podcast who have stories like that, like Jen Bekman for example, who owns 20x200.com today. She was literally out on the street, maxed out credit cards, and some other craziness... like being 8 months behind on her rent and so on. There is much to be said about the human spirit. That's why I love this podcast so much, because it's people who seemingly "made it", and then you hear about all the heartbreak and trials and tribulations behind the scenes.
I have been thinking about what you said about self publishing, and I'm not sure I agree with you. Self publishing is self empowerment, why cast your lot with other people's likes and dislikes? Do you remember what a publisher wrote Don after he sent them the Ra material?
Quote:No entity that wreaks such havoc with the English language is going to ingratiate himself with the general reading public. This has all the denseness of The New England Journal Of Medicine, or the Journal Of English And German Philosophy or a Ph.D. dissertation on epistemology… and for another thing, the dialogue form gets pretty tedious after a while. It was all the rage in Athens for a while, I know, and its popularity continued all the way through the neoclassic renaissance, but it died out shortly afterwards, and I don’t think that it’s about to be revived.
Okay the guy had quite the sense of humour, I'll give him that, but you get my point. Brené Brown also couldn't find a publisher willing to publish her book, so she initially self published and sold copies out of her car's trunk on the street.
The money catalyst is a catalyst we all share, and it's a strong catalyst. I love this talk by Alan Watts:
Why I Hate Everything To Do With Business
"figure out some way in which you get paid for playing"