The blogs I follow are an eclectic lot. Like this one for instance, and this one, and my latest find (If you have the time read this one from the first entry last August, It’s quite an odyssey). Most of them are writers and all of them are on a Journey with a capital ‘J’, because we are, all of us wayfarers of one sort or another.

I have a file in my ‘Writing’ folder called ‘Tools’ and when I come across something that might be of use on my Journey to becoming published and rich and famous (maybe not the famous – OK, rich and famous too) I plunk it in my ‘tool-box’ for future reference.

Another of my blogistas is Free Spacer, which is the name of the RPG that they are developing over there. I’m not a RPG gal but it’s kinda fun to watch this evolution. In his latest post Christoph talks about the ‘1,000 True Fans’ concept. Which states (to paraphrase) that if an artist can gather and hold 1,000 people who will buy $100 worth of the artists work per year, then that creates a livable income.

Cool huh?

Not having heard of this before I thought it was a rather wonderful and simple concept. That all we need out of all the people who might buy our art, in whatever shape we create it, is 1,000 of ‘em to stick around. How hard can it be I asked myself as I made note of it in my tool-box.

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“You should keep on painting no matter how difficult it is, because this is all part of experience, and the more experience you have, the better it is.. unless it kills you, and then you know you have gone too far” – Alice Neel