Well thanks for the words!
mysteriesofthesea wrote:
[quote]Since you are a working journalist,..it is your mode of making a living and if you do it full time,..that should be a very satisfying living indeed!!
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actually not a journalist 😳 – just educated and trained, did that one internship as a general assignment reporter and confirmed what I already knew- I had no desire to be a journalist. I thought it would be the best major for me to take to improve my writing, and I wanted to leave college with a skill.
Now I’m sojourning as the corporate receptionist for a well known northeast beer company, while I apply to grad school. Figure I’ll go back to school now that I really want too- I didn’t want to be in college the first time around.
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Don’t put selling your work in the same catagory as selling yourself,..I let myself fall into that trap with my line-drawings and my cartoons. …
They express too much of your own quirky personality and not enough of TRUE art!” …
What I am leading up to with this tale is this: Don’t fragment your writings and your artwork, inside your self, saying,..”This is just for me and this will be for the people that I want to sell it to or even just show it to.”
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I was very lucky to be encouraged in my art, I hate hearing when people disuade others from their heart felt passions as not “true art” 👿
I’m sorry anyone ever told you your drawing wasn’t art- that is evil.
And as far as selling myself, I only use that to explain the part time job it is to send out manuscripts and sell what I write. i.e., as in representing myself to the publishing community/editors/what have you.
I didn’t mean producing work I think will sell! lol
that could be a fun excercise though!