Be Your Own Legacy!

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Recently I've been thinking about authors and aspiring authors. I've been thinking about it a lot because I'm self-publishing Lumen and I haven't even tried to go the traditional route, which I've provided reasons for in the past, but a part of me has been tutting in the back of my head and I have had to deal with some serious doubt.




AND THEN...




I stopped, I told myself that it's better if I self-publish, it's better if I take control of things myself! I don't want nobody telling me what they want in my book...it's mine...and I've heard a lot of publishers try and take over.




I am my own person. Are you?


I said that I was having doubts, and the reason was because I'd heard all the stories about people who became famous from writing, and I wanted that, I still do, but not so much. So I'm here to say, quit trying to be the next Amanda Hocking, the next Stephen King, the next J. K Rowling, or the next Stephanie Meyer, those posts are already full! Try and be the next you! Write because there are stories that only you know how to tell and make those readers read....be the next whoever you are!




I am Joseph Eastwood, and I am the next me!


Other things that I was gritting my teeth about and if I did go down the traditional publishing route (and there is still so much life in me, I'm 18 year old!) was all those rejection letter and leaving that for generations to see. Now ask yourself:




What are you going to leave behind for generations to see? A closet full of rejected manuscripts?


You should never give up! Build yourself that platform and collect those rejection letters, but I don't think you should take it out on the manuscript. It takes days, weeks, months, even years to get it right, and you might think that self-publishing will ruin your credibility, but how will you know if people actually like your writing if you don't put it out there...Amanda Hocking took the chance, but you're going to be the next you, not the next one of her.



I'm not sure in what direction this is going but I think that if people want to mould their own destiny that they should start doing something about it.



A blog is a sure fire way to get the attention of people, and if you provide the people with information then they will follow you, but you need to keep on providing them with a stream of content. There are people who blog everyday, there are people who blog on set days, and then there are the people who blog on and off, even fall off the map, I know I've done this before and when it happens it's best to just throw yourself in full force.




Are you going to be your own legacy?


-Joseph




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