I just can’t get enough of publishing.
One thing I’m afraid of myself is I’m too macro focused — too big picture, too abstract. This often ends up with lots and lots of ideas but very few completion let alone results.
In the context of my publishing vision, specificity and specialization will be key. I can’t expect to “make it” with a bunch of continuing lofty ideas. I’ve got to get down and dirty. Gary Vee talk s about specificity, about the need to narrow down and focus on completely dominating one small thing instead of the big thing.
Today I was thinking: how about publishing for bloggers? How about appealing to the bloggers who are sick of thinking they put half if not more of their energy into “making money”?
And what of the way blogging started anyway? Seems like it was marketed (which is strange) as a make money scheme. That would be like writers advertising “how to make money as a writer.” It just makes no sense.
Publishing people are just as interesting. They have a certain feel about them, too, that I can’t even begin to describe. From them it’s good to learn the basics of the process of book publishing (agents, royalties, distributors, editors, etc.)
On the other end, if I may ponder, are bloggers completely into the craft of their writing. But that’s not healthy, either, necessarily. (BTW I should refrain from that kind of labeling). A blogger needs a market, at least the kind I’m talking about.
The blogger I have in mind is someone who cares about their writing and their subject matter way before anything else. They would rather die publishing good stuff poor than publish trash rich.
Essentially I want to break away from the pack and lead a tribe of concerned self-publishers, not money chasing opportunists.
The only trick will be providing an incentive for them.
* I can’t tell you how good it felt today NOT signing up for Copyblogger’s 3rd Tribe forum. Yawn, another training forum where the people on top collect the money of people who keep believing they’ll make it one day. People who think they need all that advice when all they need is the guts to do it on their own. Note to self: never follow the how-to salesman business model. Stick to publishing. Make money from that.