Ethics in Online Writing

Basically I have been a little emotionally blacked out for the moment and this caused me to think and thinking evolves into writing with me.

I do try to bite my tongue, since I do like to share experiences others might learn from that are not always that positive. Therefor I will not mention names of people that do not want to be mentioned, or without their permission.

On the other hand: to write reviews on people, I do mention them. I have written some reviews and an article on an artist that kind of hurt me as person, but I feel that is should not effect my opinion on his music.

Fact is it does not, but the way he has been kind of working on my emotions made me think. I sat down an reflected for a while. Will I share my vision? One article might have become not so great as I expected it. I do not want to harm his career. I just like to analyse the events that hurt me and learn from it.

I deleted this article, despite it was an earning one, since I was not really happy about it. Yes, I was mad when I wrote it and personally I do not think it is that professional to just write things in anger and publish then that way.

I do not like to write things to harm others, even if they have wounded me deeply. In their story I will probably be the bad one, so I do not feel like bashing. I try to understand.

As a victim of several forms of abuse, I prefer to learn. What makes me a victim and what makes an abuser? I consider this much better than sitting down in my grief.

My encounters with this musician made me think of success and fame. Will I be able to handle this? I have to admit I do not know.

Creative fiction writing was on the back of my mind. My activism was a bit overwhelming, since I feel that I might not be the only one in trouble and I was wondering what is most important: writing a great novel to get published and making lots of money on it, or writing acticles that might not buy me a cup of coffee, but that might inspire others out there that deal with the same problems. That first thing might never happen anyway. So many great manuscripts are still denied by publishers.

Writing is attention whoring and marketing is an even worse one. Selling yourself is what you have to do for a living. Even for job intervieww you need to ad yourself.

I am not good at selling myself. The least thing you can call me is a smooth talker.

I am this shy loner that is longing for great things and has great dreams, not knowing if I will accomplish them.

I am grateful to people who read my articles and I might feel sorry, but my encounter with this musician already made me draw a line: I will not promise or even try to get personal with everybody if I ever have over a 1000 fans.

So I sat back and started to study marketing. I am not an ace in it and I presume that an artist should stick to his art and leave the marketing up to others. If you want to do it all, you will blunder somewhere.

Make great art and let that be your portfolio. Try to convince publishers, record labels or whatever. Sell yourself to them and if they believe in you, just let them sell your work to the public.

If you do want to be an independent artist and self publish your work and swap your own books, by the help of your fans, than be grateful to them. Keep in mind they provide your livelihood and when you let them down, you also let yourself down.

My first idea is to ever finish good a manuscript. Publishing it is not my main worry. I’ll see where it gets me.