Re:If You Want to Make It as a Writer, for God's Sakes, Be W...
by n00bdude on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @09:08AM
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Been writing wannabe professional for a bit now and the short story fiction I’ve been working on (3+ volumes) could probs be classified as weird. (Not a forced weird, just happens)
That said, definitely haven’t made any financial gains in the world of writing, and “optimizing” for weird, based on firsthand experience , doesn’t quite ring as sage advice
If you want to “make it as a writer,” and unless you’re kinda hardcore about it, it may be a better idea to start a podcast / real-time capture your journey as a writer (while writing.)
Printed text (books) requires work to access and usually doesn’t do a great job marketing itself / has “low-virality.”
Reading is work; watching / listening is easy, maybe even relaxing.
Beyond your average interview podcast, pursuing a career as a writer & sharing that work via podcast is a direction I personally haven’t yet seen explored at length
Re:If You Want to Make It as a Writer, for God's Sakes, Be W...
by kingsuper20 on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @11:24PM
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>Start a website under your own name and your own URL. Not on Medium or Substack but on your own domain. You can call the blog part something fancy but the URL is your name.
It sounds like he's talking about James Howard Kunstler.
Re:If You Want to Make It as a Writer, for God's Sakes, Be W...
by sparky_z on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @05:57AM
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But he also has his own personal website on his own domain that aggregates or points to his work on other platforms. He didn't say not to use those external services, just don't fully depend on them.
That said, definitely haven’t made any financial gains in the world of writing, and “optimizing” for weird, based on firsthand experience , doesn’t quite ring as sage advice
If you want to “make it as a writer,” and unless you’re kinda hardcore about it, it may be a better idea to start a podcast / real-time capture your journey as a writer (while writing.)
Printed text (books) requires work to access and usually doesn’t do a great job marketing itself / has “low-virality.”
Reading is work; watching / listening is easy, maybe even relaxing.
Beyond your average interview podcast, pursuing a career as a writer & sharing that work via podcast is a direction I personally haven’t yet seen explored at length
It sounds like he's talking about James Howard Kunstler.
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/the-raptures-of-hype...
reminds me exactly why I loved him... he expresses the worries I have, and suddenly I feel less alone in my worries.