{"id":162,"date":"2015-03-26T20:08:01","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T01:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zachbarnesonwriting.wordpress.com\/?p=162"},"modified":"2015-03-26T20:08:01","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T01:08:01","slug":"the-bloggeth-returneth-glorious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zacharybarnes.us\/index.php\/2015\/03\/26\/the-bloggeth-returneth-glorious\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bloggeth Returneth. Glorious!"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, apparently the blogs I’ve been writing haven’t been posting to the site…… \u00a0Man…<\/p>\n

Totally crazy, right? \u00a0Brilliant posts, vanished into thin air!<\/p>\n

Definitely not some lame excuse…<\/p>\n

Certainly not contingent on the fact that I just finished\u00a0watching the third season of House of Cards. \u00a0What a strange coincidence…<\/p>\n

But honestly, apart from catching up on a certain too-serious Netflix soap opera, I’ve been kinda busy with a promotion at work, and prepping for a writer’s conference. \u00a0Which has me thinking.<\/p>\n

A writer is not an author, though an author may be a writer. \u00a0I like the writer-hat, but it’s just\u00a0one hat among many. \u00a0It’s interesting getting used to wearing them all. \u00a0An author can be any of the following at any given time: salesman, businessman, writer, advocate, comedian, internet personality, guru, dishwasher, matador just to name a few.<\/p>\n

But there’s an interesting transition to behold.<\/p>\n

I create. \u00a0I write. \u00a0I drink coffee and sweat over the keyboard and hope my words aren’t garbage.<\/p>\n

But now that work is primarily done. \u00a0As “done” as any creative process can be, though I could change it eternally. \u00a0Now I find myself in the unfamiliar position of the salesman, purveying my product, grasping at the coat-tails of passers-by. \u00a0I wrote and re-wrote a sales<\/em>\u00a0proposal<\/em> a few weeks ago… and felt utterly out of my depth. Demographics and interviews and blurbs have usurped plot-lines and twists and descriptions for residency in my cluttered head.<\/p>\n

Needless to say, juggling the two roles is going to be difficult. \u00a0They’re two sides of the author-coin. \u00a0Why, cruel world, do you insist I use\u00a0both<\/em> hemispheres of my brain?!? \u00a0ARGH.<\/p>\n

It’s easy to want to go back to creation. \u00a0Because I’m actually decent<\/em>\u00a0at that. \u00a0But instead I need to learn how to market myself (a concept I’ll never fully get used to) in a way that will bring attention\u00a0to my creation. \u00a0So, a word of\u00a0advice to myself, and you, if you’re listening, is to work on the\u00a0weaknesses to make yourself better.<\/p>\n

Holy cow, it’s good to be back.<\/p>\n

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