I waited on a response because I wanted to take the time to really read the heck out of that article and process what it had to say. Aside from its intelligent and punchy style, I'm really fired up for the notions it expresses and the way it got my brain considering the future of the publishing industry. I'm actually willing to concede that my idea for selling ideas may be completely wrong-headed.
See, I have more ideas than I could ever write in a lifetime, especially considering that I'll likely never be able to make that hobby pay for itself no matter how much effort I put into it. Traditional publishing routes don't play to my strengths, as I'd need to find an agent who could also be an editor, then if I managed to sell a novel to one of the big publishing houses, I'd need to take to new media to half the work of promoting the thing, and considering that I can't even get as many people to read my intricately plotted adventures as will click any random Tokka fluff story, that's obviously a losing proposition for me. Likewise, if I go through the new internet-based self-publishing routes, I'd have to do a full 100% of the promotion, and my chance of discovery would be even worse.
Of course, I could always just publish a novel because I want to, and not for any real expectation of profiting from it. We've discussed the benefits and pitfalls of this versus just sticking with fanfic, so there's no need to go over that here. But that still leaves me more ideas than I can do anything with, hence my speculation that I could sell ideas.
However, reading that article got me thinking about the notion of Authors, and the myriad of possibilities offered by small publishers, and it got me thinking. What if- instead of an Author- I started an Author Team?
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I waited on a response because I wanted to take the time to really read the heck out of that article and process what it had to say. Aside from its intelligent and punchy style, I'm really fired up for the notions it expresses and the way it got my brain considering the future of the publishing industry. I'm actually willing to concede that my idea for selling ideas may be completely wrong-headed.
See, I have more ideas than I could ever write in a lifetime, especially considering that I'll likely never be able to make that hobby pay for itself no matter how much effort I put into it. Traditional publishing routes don't play to my strengths, as I'd need to find an agent who could also be an editor, then if I managed to sell a novel to one of the big publishing houses, I'd need to take to new media to half the work of promoting the thing, and considering that I can't even get as many people to read my intricately plotted adventures as will click any random Tokka fluff story, that's obviously a losing proposition for me. Likewise, if I go through the new internet-based self-publishing routes, I'd have to do a full 100% of the promotion, and my chance of discovery would be even worse.
Of course, I could always just publish a novel because I want to, and not for any real expectation of profiting from it. We've discussed the benefits and pitfalls of this versus just sticking with fanfic, so there's no need to go over that here. But that still leaves me more ideas than I can do anything with, hence my speculation that I could sell ideas.
However, reading that article got me thinking about the notion of Authors, and the myriad of possibilities offered by small publishers, and it got me thinking. What if- instead of an Author- I started an Author Team?
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