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So, you want to be published, do you?
Have you looked inside of yourself as to why? Is it a quick stab at celebrity? (we think poetry is the quickest and easiest way- for it takes the least amount of training, time and effort to produce a "work" as compared to the other traditional arts). If it is, then read on...
I've posted this because our mindframes have been misshapen by the notion of celebrity. The Andy Warhol saga did more damage to the world of art than anything else in history, if you ask me.
My advice is, just be an artist. Selected works of yours will hit the scenes when they will, if they will, either by your efforts or that of others (most likely those who see a profit in it); if you believe you really have something, no obstacle in the industry will stop you (and the obstacles are never-ending).
Remember, most widely exposed art is that of artists at their lifetime peaks- maybe one year's worth of work, or one month, or one week, or one piece out of a lifetime of pieces, so, the questions are, are you up there with them? If not, are you a shining exception, heads above your peers?
As for celebrity, most of that is how well you look on a poster... if you look good and can't write, then get a ghost writer... then you can play the part of a writing celebrity (who has a deformed ghost writer)...
If you harbor burning reasons for writing other than celebrity, then you've just wasted your time reading this post... (unless you've somehow derived some much-needed pleasure from it...!)
One more notion on celebrity- say you think that your drive for celebrity alone can carry you through all the obstacles. Now say you've reach your goal. What kind of celebrity will you be considered as? A respectable celebrity who is deserving due to respectable work, or a disreputable camera jockey? (like, say, Al Sharpton). Either way, you may be rolling in dough... lol which may have been your ultimate goal all along... (and which is why we see would-be best-loved poets come and go quickly here, for they are writing for the wrong reasons, and will find said success in almost any other endeavor...) (and there is a sad bynote on people who come and go quickly here- some write and hit the very core of the heart, and, their hearts blown, cannot write another word...)
well, I think this will make a nice column now... (the gift of rambling in action...)
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It doesn't matter to me.
If I do, I do, If I don't, I don't. I myself write to share, and if my work touches someone, that's all I need. I love rambling, it makes people think, or confuses them. Either way, that is an art form in itself. -
I am still the boss of ME.. a celebrity in my own mind. (and a wanton pleasure seeker)
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quest for celebrity????
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Quest for celebrity???
I once wanted so bad to be a celebrity writing poetry
until I realized that everyone else was trying to be one too!
So I gave up. All I really want to do is write and if it sells.....oh well!
True poets never have sought agrandiosement anyway. -
Keep learning, keep growing...
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Everyone wants to be an author nowdays. I see teens that cry that they've been writing for years and they want to publish. I see adults crying that they've been looking for months for an agent and haven't found one yet (months... wow... there, there).
Anyone that wants to get rich from writing is doing it for the wrong reason... and, to be blunt, probably isn't that good a of writer.
. It's those that weite for the love of writing, and publishing is a perk, not a means to an end, that are probably going to make it somewhat big.... for most of us know that in reality, 99% of authors don't make that much in the long run.
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I think that is true of poets, but not necessarily of novelists. To be a novelist takes a lot of desire, but, it is probably 100 times easier to get published and to sell books. You really have to want it bad, though.
And, let's be honest here, to write a poem takes a handful of minutes out of the day, but to write a novel requires a real commitment - and one does not spend all that time and energy to be an unpublished novelist.
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so, you want to be a celebrity?
you're writing in the wrong genre.
if you are good at poetry, you usually don't get discovered because one
1. you don't market your book under self help or motivational and sell them at the impulse buy areas in petite desk top versions
2. you don't claim celebrity because you're too busy drinking and writing about the whore you're about to screw
3. you're not dead.
that is my opinion. poetry is the HARDEST genre to be published in. Unless you are putting out a hundred pieces of gold a week or have the right connections, you'll have to wait until death.
why?
because poetry is too personal for most writers. they don't want to be told that something they write isn't "good enough" because poetry is what it is... and they get that. IT's the rest of the world that doesn't. I've heard before. i've thought it once.
want to be a famous poet? drink, become humble, learn to tell the truth absolutely and die early -
Quality
Just write quality material and enjoy what you have produced...anything else is a bonus. -
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I did just have another thought or two on this, I told someone who said 'get published', "I'm too busy living my writing right now..." and I told yet another, "make sure you have a good body of work before celebrity screws you up artistically (and personally! )
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and if it finds you love... capital BONUS... (and it has for me here...)
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I want time to write
therefor
I need to be paid
I could do some bus driving too
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