When Phillip Pullman resigned his patronage of the Oxford Literary Festival, he took a stand for all authors. Think about it: authors are the bread and butter of lit conferences. The wait staff, the AV guys, everyone else gets paid. Why shouldn’t writers who are invited to share their expertise and provide valuable content to the organizers get paid too?
My position as head of marketing at CadmiumCD affords me lots of opportunity. I get to connect with industry leaders regularly, stay up to date on the coolest new tech, and — best of all — make a living writing and talking with others.
“You’ve got to be on social media,” says every marketer ever.
At this point, that’s a given. Being on social media today might be more important than having your own website. Recently search engines like Google have been ranking content shared on social media sites higher than content posted on blogs and individual sites.
Search engines tend to favor sites with a lot of traffic and your personal blog can’t reach nearly as many people as Twitter or Facebook.
Take a look at these following examples:
Imagine you’ve had an accident or have been diagnosed with an illness. Imagine you can no longer live your life the way you’ve been living and now you have to fight to get better. Or maybe you have to learn a new style of living.
What would you regret?
Think of all the things that inspire you to write. Think of all the habits and activities, interests and experiences that add value to your writing.
It’s funny. Often we think of writing as something we do when we have time to do it. We block out a space on our calendars and sit at our desks and get the writing done.
But writing is so much more than that.