Yes! Very much yes--it's a great dream to be able to make money from our creative endeavors, but it's vital to find an audience, people who listen, who appreciate what we do.
And yet, it's hard to put your best out there, knowing people may not like it. I'm so glad you started posting your special photos. (-:
The need for an audience--a community--is why I don't plan to stop writing Fireborn even though I'm not getting anywhere near professional rates for the writing, though I may go to a slower publishing schedule if more sponsors don't appear. I know that I'm not the only one reading it. And that matters a lot.
And I really like the interactive potential of the net, that it doesn't just have to be me, the solitary hermit, whose voice eventually is heard out there in the world--but something more organic, more like being a verbal storyteller, telling a story in the moment, to people who are listening and reacting, whose reactions are just as vital a part of my experience as a storyteller as my words are to theirs as readers.
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And yet, it's hard to put your best out there, knowing people may not like it. I'm so glad you started posting your special photos. (-:
The need for an audience--a community--is why I don't plan to stop writing Fireborn even though I'm not getting anywhere near professional rates for the writing, though I may go to a slower publishing schedule if more sponsors don't appear. I know that I'm not the only one reading it. And that matters a lot.
And I really like the interactive potential of the net, that it doesn't just have to be me, the solitary hermit, whose voice eventually is heard out there in the world--but something more organic, more like being a verbal storyteller, telling a story in the moment, to people who are listening and reacting, whose reactions are just as vital a part of my experience as a storyteller as my words are to theirs as readers.