do what you love, but solve for distribution
time to get over yourself and engage in some cringey self-promotion
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do what you love, but solve for distribution
self-promotion is important:
In the months leading up to pub day, I sent approximately 8,613 emails out to friends, professional contacts, people I talked to once in a buffet line at a writing workshop 3 years ago, people who follow me on Twitter, and people who have never heard of me or my little book, offering them galleys and (in some cases!)
... See moreLulu Cheng Meservey
Many of us spend our lives pursuing private acceptance through external success. But no matter the award or honor, our inner doubts will remain. True acceptance comes from inside us. It takes asking ourselves challenging questions like: What do I want from my work? What’s most important about it to me ? How would I create my work differently if I... See more
Yancey Strickler • What if You Gave Yourself the Gift of Inner Acceptance?
i liked how Yancey mitigated his desires with publishing and creating for himself
Kafka would whiff on this, but the other two would excel if you told them this was a necessary part of achieving their artistic dreams. There is this idea that prolific, famous creative people are wilting flowers who are just accidentally dedicated to perfecting their craft and making work that is both authentic and widely popular. I think people... See more
Sasha Chapinsubstack.comBranding gets a bad rap, but it’s heart work, which writers already do by default. It’s asking yourself, “what is my work really about, what is its essence, what is its purpose, what does it evoke?” Branding is just taking the answers to those questions and making sure each decision you make about your work stays true to them.
Amanda B. Hinton • The Producer Behind Some of Substack’s Most Beloved Newsletters
Our friends at MSCHF once shared a fascinating anecdote: they always have release parties for their drops the night before. They want to celebrate making the work rather than how the work is received.
There’s a lot of wisdom in this. First, it’s common for our hoped-for release day dreams to outpace reality. Outsized expectations can cause us to... See more
There’s a lot of wisdom in this. First, it’s common for our hoped-for release day dreams to outpace reality. Outsized expectations can cause us to... See more
Promotional Principles for Creative People
learnings: i used to feel like you had to make adhd slop to win on tiktok and i couldn't have been more wrong. my entire content style is around "narratives" and "storytelling" and it's often flopped on tiktok.
it's not that tiktok doesn't like deep stories -- it's more that every single video must be made with the... See more
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