11-24-2016, 06:01 PM
I thought once, when I made a couple of grand from poetry, that it might kick off... but once the initial excitement wears off from a new publication, both publisher and audience want a new toy. Unless it's 50 shades of gross. I have a limited audience since I rarely include bondage - I know that's a bad marketing decision, but there you go.
I love teaching poetry but I never use my own in the classroom, especially since one of my managers (who has since been sacked) insisted that not only was poetry pointless in real life, but using mine in class was just about having students stroke my ego.
Now I just don't have time to spare for creativity very often, and I have been treated so badly by publishers that I shall assuredly not go that route again. I am halfheartedly tossing around some collaboration ideas with video and audio producers but really it's just become a desperate need to feel like I haven't wasted my entire life in a field that doesn't want me.
Maybe I should have done what's expected of artists and just fucked myself up on drugs.
I love teaching poetry but I never use my own in the classroom, especially since one of my managers (who has since been sacked) insisted that not only was poetry pointless in real life, but using mine in class was just about having students stroke my ego.
Now I just don't have time to spare for creativity very often, and I have been treated so badly by publishers that I shall assuredly not go that route again. I am halfheartedly tossing around some collaboration ideas with video and audio producers but really it's just become a desperate need to feel like I haven't wasted my entire life in a field that doesn't want me.
Maybe I should have done what's expected of artists and just fucked myself up on drugs.
It could be worse