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While writing a memoir detailing over 12 years as a homeless crack addict and felon, could I consider my extensive criminal background and years of addiction and homelessness as platform for the genre?
Or is a platform, as I have believed until recently, simply a following of some sort (social media, blog users, public speaking, etc)
I've read that trackable experience can be considered platform but does it have to be professional experience that is well known to the public?
I'm seeing a lot of the philosophy of "if no one knows you, they won't want to read your life story"
I'm going to finish it anyway and then finish the book proposal (they're both at about 40%) but I don't attract social followers very easily being that I'm a nobody. Not really sure what to do about the platform section of the proposal. Any suggestions?
Or is a platform, as I have believed until recently, simply a following of some sort (social media, blog users, public speaking, etc)
I've read that trackable experience can be considered platform but does it have to be professional experience that is well known to the public?
I'm seeing a lot of the philosophy of "if no one knows you, they won't want to read your life story"
I'm going to finish it anyway and then finish the book proposal (they're both at about 40%) but I don't attract social followers very easily being that I'm a nobody. Not really sure what to do about the platform section of the proposal. Any suggestions?