#68 - Just a couple of thoughts while procrastinating on a final economics paper.

[reileen]

Here's how I'm going to go about making my moolah in life.

First off, I'll establish a name for myself in the art world. We'll start with commissions and the Artist Alley at Anime Central, and take it from there. I've got a few ideas that will certainly (hopefully?) be popular with the American otaku fanbase.

In the meantime, I'll be working on my writing and my music. Both of these will be initially self-published and self-recorded, and marketed through my personal website/deviantArt/LiveJournal/MySpace/whatever I can find, as well as pimped out to review sites and other such places. By this point, theoretically speaking, I'll have a sizable enough fanbase that I can make a decent profit off what I do. This, in turn, may spur a publishing company and/or a recording studio to take me under their wing and officially release my stuff, which will hopefully mean a wider audience and moar proffitz that I can then put towards various things (maintaining a decent living environment for myself, supporting my parents and buying them that house on the beach that they've always wanted, collecting as many books as I can).

Am I crazy for starting out by doing nearly everything myself? Oh, fuck yes. But the risk of failure for me is three times higher than normal, and I'll be damned if I'm putting such a fragile fate into the gigantic, groping hands of a third party. I want my life, my dreams, my desires right here where I can see it and mold it with my own painfully short fingers. And if that means doing nearly everything myself, so be it. I don't entirely know what I'm getting myself into with something like this, but I know it's something that I'm going to do or die trying. I'm excited and scared to be starting on this, and starting soon with the coming of summer break. At the very least, I hope to be making a living from my art, enough so that I can live comfortably and be able to produce my writing and music as well later.

-Reileen
white tiles without foundation, silent temple bells

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

good luck if you think you'r gonna be able to maintain all that. i am not trying to be rude or get your hopes down but even the most proficient sounding pianinsts/artists/writers have a small chance of making it big. espeically if you expect to make it big by putting your stuff online.

and don't even get me started on your goal on your buying the dream house for your parents.

[reileen.livejournal.com]

Yes, I am well-aware of how unattainable this all is. That doesn't mean I'm not going to try for it. We'll see how things go - I won't doubt that things will change drastically along the way.

And thanks for being anonymous.

*drops in out of nowhere*

[only-spiders.livejournal.com]

I strongly disagree! It is entirely possible for a musician to do very well indeed, without having to be mainstream or widely popular first. Besides, the internet is rapidly becoming a very good place to market your music. People go to the internet for music more than the record store these days, from what I've seen. (Now, that's mostly performers. Songwriters have it harder, but that's always been the case. Composers, on the other hand...)

Also, it is very possible to buy a house for your parents, even an expensive one, if you handle your money wisely. You don't even have to be rich. (Or so I've heard.)

And anyway, there's an entire group of people who basically get their kicks out of listening to the most obscure bands they can get their hands on. Not bad.

Re: *drops in out of nowhere*

[only-spiders.livejournal.com]

P.S. Yes, I know this was from a couple months ago and I am therefore way late. Don't blame me, this is where the search engine dumped me. -_-;;;

Re: *drops in out of nowhere*

[reileen.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the support. XD What, exactly, were you searching for that you happened upon my (rarely-updated) LiveJournal?