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I've failed at "creating content as a side gig" multiple times over the course of my career, and I'm working on providing more structure in my life so I can giv
by MattDemers 4y ago
I've failed at "creating content as a side gig" multiple times over the course of my career, and I'm working on providing more structure in my life so I can give it another go. Over the last little bit I've been getting my sleep, diet and exercise in order, and doing more reading about how ADHD and dopamine have affected my brain.
Unfortunately, I can feel the momentum and enthusiasm slowing down after a couple weeks of this. I'm tired, but I'm still trying to write goals and give myself some foundation for my work (Substack, and Twitch, pretty separately). I'm pretty happy with this "elevator pitch", which is something I've never really been able to do:
"I'm writing about the relationships people have with the Internet, and how it changes over time. I want to focus on the effects of fandom on marketing, creativity, competition, and personal identity. The Internet has been an enabler of dreams for a lot of people, and I want to explore how people use that for better or worse."
- biztos 4y agoEffects of fandom meaning… the effect on your own creativity etc when you are a fan of someone/something else? Or the effects of having people who are fans of you/your-product? Or something else? I totally get the difficulty of focusing on creative work. I can manage to paint, and do software work for money, but I really struggle to tackle the dozens of other things on my creativity/content backlog. Good luck with it!
- MattDemers 4y agoI meant more that the strategies used by companies to interact with say, Kpop or Marvel fans, have bled into other environments. Also, the way that those kind of fandoms act, or the things they do in order to provide marketing for their parent hobby, have affected how other things continue to exist by proxy.