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Storytelling for Sailors: Introduction by Lin Pardey
18 agosto 2023 · 13 min · 1K visualizzazioni
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Lin Pardey introduces a multi-part program on storytelling for sailors, covering writing for print and online magazines, blogging, YouTube channels, and e-books as income sources for cruisers.0:11 She frames storytelling as a portable profession that can supplement a cruising kitty but warns that income is low relative to hours invested, and that building a brand and maintaining an internet presence consumes the spare time that makes creativity possible.1:06 John Kretschmer's book Sailing a Serious Ocean sold 60,000 print copies and 10,000 audiobooks — cited as evidence that the sailing-content market is expanding.5:41 Pardey describes mentoring Riley and Ilana of the Love Agabond YouTube channel and working with Desiree and Jordan of Sailing Atticus.3:49 Her own writing began with a furious letter to Boating magazine disputing an article claiming the minimum cruising yacht was 30 feet — she was anchored in the Panama Canal Yacht Club aboard a 24-foot Serafin.6:33 A writing lesson from Penny Lerneau, head of United Press International for South America, produced the core advice: every experience contains a story, and half of what you write serves only yourself — cut it.9:40 Pardey notes it took five years before writing covered more than half her cruising costs, and says the same timeline holds for most YouTubers and bloggers today.11:00
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