Promoting Professional Geekery #6: Write The Book

I just spent three months writing a book.  You probably noticed that by the updates.

I know plenty of great writers, who do tons of blog posts, documents and, yes books.  During the time I was working on my latest book, a friend of mine wrote a novel TWICE as long and he's not even finished yet.

You probably have a professionally geeky book in you.  A Geek 2.0 book.  Something on both a career and your likely obsessive love of certain things.  Maybe it's on how you made your video game career into a real one, or your observations of the six kinds of comic book artists, or whatever.

So write the bloody thing and be done with it.  Promote professional geekiness by putting out a book.

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Promoting Professional Geekery #5: Join A Professional Association

Want to promote professional geekiness, shameless fan-to-pro enthusiasm?  Why not hook up with people that are kind of doing that very thing?

Go join a Professional Association.  We put together a huge list for you awhile ago.

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Promoting Professional Geekery #4: Start The Damn Blog!

Well it's quite a good week to be focusing on one of my favorite subjects – promoting professional geekery, the idea that people can (and in many cases) should turn what they love into a career.  It's "Speak Out With Your Geek Out" and let me focus on #4: Starting The Damn Blog.

Why not just Starting The Blog?  Because you (and others) have thought about a blog so often that it's not just "the blog I want to start" it's "the damn blog I should get to."

So, start it.

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