Bonnie Boots on HubPages
I've spent much of my working life as an award-winning writer for newspapers and magazines and a designer for corporations like McCalls Arts & Crafts. Balanced between the two, I gained an excellent education in the way words and pictures impact on people. And just as important, I learned how to find my "inner business person" and set her free.
Earlier in my life I suffered from a syndrome that afflicts so many creative people:
can't-finish-anythingitis. Our brains spit out creative ideas so fast and we find those ideas so mesmerizing that we're pulled away to start a new book or painting or project before we've finished up the last one. That lack of finished work is the origin of the phrase, "starving artist."
Working with corporate marketing types taught me it was possible to be both creative and business-minded at the same time. Only after I learned that lesson was I able to move forward and make a life for myself as a
creative professional. That life took a turn away from print publications and onto the internet a couple of years ago when a publisher dropped my book deal because of a price hike in paper. With 100 pages of color
photos, my once-promising book was now too expensive to print.
That was a huge disappointment, but it was also a catalyst. That day I decided I would no longer be held hostage by print publishing. I decided I would learn digital publishing and take control of my own work.
I thought having a background in writing, graphic design, product creation and marketing would make my transition to the internet a piece of cake. Instead, I ran into a brick wall called "technology." I had a terrific, full-color vision of what I wanted to create, but not the foggiest notion of how to put up even a simple web page.
I spent the next two years learning everything I could about digital content creation. As my skills grew, I used them to barter with some major players. They got their web images upgraded and I got the inside scoop on how a money-making web business operates.
Today, I publish The Internet Wizards Magazine, a lifestyle magazine for people doing business on the internet, and produce and market my own products through several web sites. Even if getting here was not the piece of cake I once imagined, it sure is sweet!
I invite you to register for a free one-year subscription
at http:www.theinternetwizards.com
