If I Had a Good Agent
I would be more successful as an entertainer AND a writer.
I'm too lazy to ever do the work myself to succeed at either and I know I will never get any better about such things. After all this time, why would I change?
I just want to write and perform. I don't want to be a businessman or marketing genius. If I had someone hustling up the work for me I'd do all the shows & write all the stories and die a happy, happy man.
I've performed for hundreds of thousands of people if not a million by now. I'm actually farther away from any real success now than I was 20 years ago. I'm guessing none of my shows had anyone influential in the business in the audience. If I'm wrong, then I must suck.
I've had thousands of people read my work at The Cheers, Malicious Bitch, and of course, this silly blog. There are obviously no folks in publishing that read anything in their off-time. If I'm wrong then I must really suck.
Just ranting a bit. I may as well get this kind of stuff out before the end of the month when I turn 35. More on that later.
6 Comments:
You're not at The Cheers anymore?? Brenda said things were looking bad... hey, happy birthday!
Do you ever follow your blog hits off Technorati? I get countless hits from people who search "Ken Sands" and "Steve Capus" and the like. The Steve Capus hits come from NBC offices in NYC.
Ken Sands actually bothered to post on my blog and say I completely misrepresented the point of his recent article on American Press INstitute.
What I'm saying is, start mentioning some more of the people you'd like to talk to. I don't think that A**hole Lipsky was the real thing, haha! But otherwise, man, try to stalk them some more.
Where's more Birk Breathed? He's a putz anyway. But you want my opinion? Whether he's commented or not, I bet ya anything he's read some ofit. ;P
Keep the faith. If you're doing what you love, if you know what you love, doesn't that put ya leaps and bounds ahead of other people??
3:45 PM
I don't even know how to find my stats on Technorati, or if I'm even listed with them. LOL!
I haven't written anything new for The Cheers or MBC in some time. Been wasting too much time writing and neglecting my paying gigs. Of course, the economy is si bad that my entertainment gigs are way down so really I've got lots of time to write if I wanted to...I'm just too lazy and blog-addicted. ;)
I haven't officialy left The Cheers, but I doubt I'll be going back. I mean really, have you seen the article that is currently their most read? I can't compete with that! Zeesh! Plus there were too many times where the site crashed just as we were starting to get readers. I can't stick around to help something grow if it is going to keep crapping out.
Besides, I don't think anyone ever actually read that rag anyways. I mean, if I truly was among the most read authors there wouldn't SOMEONE have noticed I hadn't submitted anything in months? Wouldn't there be one regular reader wondering where the Andy column was? Wouldn't some staffer other than Siim and Brenda wonder what happened to their most prolific writer? I think I was the only person that ever read the thing. LOL!
I like the idea of writing for places like MBC and The Cheers because they're ground-floor things. I like the idea of being there when there's nothing and watching it turn into something great. Trouble is, I can't figure out how long you stick around hoping the site grows and your audience grows and all that before you have to call it a hobby.
MBC rocks though and if the muse ever talks to me again (other than in blog form, LOL!) I will be sending my work to them more often. Maybe a Berkeley Breathed story at MBC. Hmmm...
I just wish there was more of a way to get feedback from readers and the like at MBC. That was one thing I liked aboutThe Cheers; lots of reader feedback options.
As for being ahead of the others because you love what you do...yeah. I kow all that. I am just tired of having to hang my hat on pride. I'd like some actual success. ;)
4:08 PM
People are a little shy sometimes Andy... they don't, and won't often comment on your writing unless for some reason it hits them where they live. You have a hell of a lot of readers on MBc, but if they keep reading the same stuff over and over they get bored and go away. We haven't said anything because we knew you were in a funk... and sometimes you just need to unfunk yourself.
Your suggestion about more reader feedback is a good one, and we'll have to think about how to do that better, keeping in mind what I said above. I think you could have mentioned that one before... it's not like you couldn't reach us :)
Believe it or not Andy... we want you to succeed too. Marjo also has some very good suggestions. So get unfunked and do it, lol
DB
4:57 PM
I think I've talked about the feedback things and a few others in the past. If not with you, with Christine. But that's not really the issue.
I just need to vent. I don't expect anyone to really understand or offer solutions.
7:16 PM
Not that I don't appreciate the effort. ;)
7:16 PM
We've talked about this a little recently. As performers we set ourselves up for disappointment. It's just part of the noise we have to deal with. Or silence in some scary cases.But as I said, what yo do is far more important to the human race than some middle manager at Sears or wherever.
I struggle with the booking agent/no booking agent problem too. I hate scrounging for gigs. I'd give all my gig money for a month to a booking agent who got me and got me a steady string of gigs.
4:40 AM
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