Idea Napkin No.2

1) You. I'm artistic, ambitious, driven, a creative thinker, (I've been told I have) people skills (but sometimes it's more sass and sarcasm than sugar and sweet), and a bit of a smart cookie. People say I should focus more on using my brainpower but I spend quite some time on digital art, painting, mixed media, music, writing, and crafting. So now I juggle between both, striving for success in the traditional sense as well as success in my own unconventional definition. I've loved to write for a long time, and I always had the desire to publish my works without voicing it. It wasn't until I was churning out hundreds of pages in the span of days and practically fusing with my keyboard that it got hard to ignore. That's when I started juggling coursework, writing, and researching publishing houses and literary agents from the directory. I try not to let the rejections or roadblocks get to me, but I'm starting to think a method other than the traditional paperwork approach might be necessary to get me noticed. So here I am, marketing myself.

2) What are you offering to customers? I'm offering fresh new stories that aren't the same overused tropes we've been seeing get sickeningly over-commercialized and grotesquely franchised. Meaning, no lame done-before plots, basic cookie-cutter characters, no love triangles or dystopian post apocalyptic futures or angsty coming-of-age tales.

3) Who are you offering it to? Anyone and everyone who loves literature, commercial fiction, or "young-adult" theme related genres. Or awesome people who just want to enjoy something. Whichever works as your definition.

4) Why do they care? Because from what I can tell, people miss the escape of books. Sure we have video games and movies and shows... that are all based on books. Reruns, retellings, reboots, and unnecessary sequels. No book-turned-blockbuster has gone trending in years now--a really odd disturbance in the usual pattern of dispersed bursts of new fandoms being generated around whatever this year's best-seller is. I can only assume that means people aren't buying what franchises are spitting out.

5) What are your core competencies? For starters, I'm actually a part of the demographic I'm marketing to. I'm a young adult myself; I know what's cool and trending way better than the corporate guessers who try to keep up with the teenage fandom-radar. I'm not some middle-aged suburban mom typing from her home office desk who has lost grasp of what young people actually want to read. I'm female, I'm a minority ethnically, and I'm about as young as they come. I've got oodles of ideas that I'm not going to brag about; I'm just offering them out there and maybe there're people out there who'd like to see. I'm not sure just how impatient or cocky I sound along the years, but I'm just tired of the same old same old not letting me change it.


I think these elements work well together. It's not the audience that's stopping me: they want this just as bad. And it's not my own competency getting in the way--no roadblock there when it comes to churning out pages. It's the competition and the whole industry built off it that gains from keeping only their same old things relevant to uphold a monopoly they just keep reinventing instead of innovating.




Feedback Memo: I decided to just stop being humble in these posts and accept the fact that perhaps I am a creative person. People tell me I'm artistically gifted and so I'll just say it here, as opposed to my other posts where I'm more like "I'm doing this and hopefully other people's preference align with it". I've also learned that apparently I'm good at being direct in what I want and so I should use it here. So no fluff, calling it like it is, even f I sound impatient or self-righteous.