A CELEBATION IN SMALL MEASURES
Positive Outcomes
Congratulations to Richard Goodall and his well deserved success on the American entertainment programme America's Got Talent simply dubbed AGT and congratulations to Rap Singer and lead vocalist Mike Shinoda for making the choice to move forward with a new lead vocalist since the sudden demise of the late great Chester Bennington in 2017. Chester was actually the amazing lead vocalist of the Nu Metal Rock band LINKIN PARK.
However, despite other changes made within the band the newest member and now co-vocalist is a young woman named Emily Armstrong who has considerable experience as an American musician, singer and songwriter. Emily is the co-founder and former member of the group DEAD SARA.
LINKIN PARK are currently on their world tour and I can't be more thrilled because I am a fan and I have loved listening to their latest single The Emptiness Machine.
The bottom line is this: there have been positive outcomes. And, sometimes we can't seem to see the big picture from where we stand. In fact things get muddled up because everybody has an opinion to share or there practically is a difference of a belief. All this might have a lot to do with believing in what one can do.
Some people kept the fate and believed Richard Goodall the singing janitor could pull it off by winning the Show others thought otherwise and a good number of LINKIN PARK fans think Mike is making a mistake by recruiting Emily to be the co-lead vocalist of the band. But guess what? It takes guts to make a wise decision even in the heat of the moment. In this case I believe strongly a brilliant decision was made in the case of Emily taking up the mantle from where Chester had stopped. But, onto other things....
A new training ground
Just like the changes I've managed to highlight the MECHANICS of ADVENTURE WRITING workshop is still going through some changes in order to function well. The session I did last week started beautifully in a different environment and a new venue with a few participants. The session was scheduled for two and a half hours last Saturday on the 21st of September 2024. I must say one thing. Palmers Green Library is a great training ground because they have all sorts of resources. I hope they call me back.
These participants who came to the session wanted to learn more about their creative writing process. It was an exciting experience because they specifically wanted to explore in depth the practical aspects and the marketing of their creative writing, I must say I learnt a thing or two from them as well.
From the look of things their experiences were hovering on one fact. That the publishing industry was continually evolving with its ideas of serving the public and it was all becoming too synthetic for most people. For instance, the publishing of a book without having a face to face chat. It was evident that everything was done online and over the phone with some publishing houses now.
And, as far as I was concerned that was a bit confusing. I knew that would be somewhat difficult for the participants who came to understand especially when some questions needed to be answered properly about their book work. So, the lessons learnt on the day were thus:
The lessons learnt on that day
That confidence is paramount in the business of writing and publishing a book. In addition to this the sequence between traditional publishing and self publishing should be thoroughly examined and the findings must not be taken for granted. Research is essential and one cannot begin to emphasize that when you want to publish a book you must consider creating a budget for it in order to align it with a marketing strategy to ensure sales.
Therefore the most important lesson to learn during this free session was this: That the book process was ultimately an adventure in itself. And that the rules were no different from when one was being guided to write a classic adventure story.
