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How's the writing career coming, /lit/?

>> No.23308119
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I have a hundred followers. I want to break into Rising Stars on RR, that would exponentially increase my fanbase and then I could start a Patreon. I'm nervous about an upcoming convention due to this nonsense, tempted to just send a female friend to LARP as me.

>> No.23308130

>>23308119
What a queen. When (they) start rounding us up at night at least Carol will be there for us :)

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I have a zero followers. I have no ambitions to break into any other enterprise let alone to capitalize on my shitposts. I'm anxious about nothing since there are no stakes involved and nobody takes me seriously.

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>>23308087
I have ruined my life.

>> No.23308144

>>23308132
based you should all live together

>> No.23308145

>>23308137
you and me both fren

>> No.23308151

>>23308132
are you hot tho?

>> No.23308157

>>23308151
I don't know how to answer that

>> No.23308163

>>23308132
I need to be more like you, Anon. Godspeed to you and the rest of us

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>enter a flash fiction (less than 1000 words contest)
>entered contest at the end of January
>my entry was changed to "In Progress" on Submittable at the beginning of April
>still "In Progress"

This is good, right? I still have a shot of winning, or at least placing in the top three, right?

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>>23308190
You will make it anon. Even if the outcome is not what you aimed at the world rewards those who try at least with the attempt made.

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I have a decent amount of followers but my works' score is 3.85/5. Because of score inflation, I need it to be at least 4.0 so people won't think its trash

>> No.23308607

>>23308087
I write book reviews for substack, and that's only earning me exposure.
otherwise, i'm still writing for fun

>> No.23309219

>>23308607
How did you find an audience on substack?

I have started posting essays on there, but receive no views.

>> No.23309435

>>23309219
it's all about marketing yourself on substack to make it worthwhile, since it is indeed hard (i have around like 30ish followers, 10 from substack, 20 free subs)

or you can kinda tell your irl/url friends about it and see where that goes.

hope that helps.
my substack is lincolnemiller.substack.com

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I wrote a ya romantasy novel. I'm still editing it, and so far only 3 people have read it

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>>23308087
Someone finally bought it: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D1L9R2JK

>> No.23309651

>>23309569
Do you need an editor? If you mention you're from /lit/, we can give you a discount. I have a doctor's appointment tomorrow, but I'll be free for the rest of this week if anyone wants to submit something.

https://www.fiverr.com/matthewg42

>> No.23309875

>>23308087
Pipsqueak, pipe down
You ain't in no big three
R Martin got you wiped down, Steven got you wiped down, Brandon got you wiped down.

>> No.23310072

>>23308087
You know, I'm not making any money. I'm never going to make money at this. But I have a blog and get 30-50 views a month and that makes me happy. Once a woman left a nice comment on a post. I don't have the skill nor mental acuity for long form writing. But I can tell people about my life and sometimes make them laugh. That's all I need.

>> No.23310296

>>23309219
Nta, but you need to build some kind of social media infastructure leading to your substack. Substack articles have terrible SEO on Google, so they aren't very discoverable outside of the app. Cross-posting to medium is one easy way to do this, or start an Instagram or Facebook page.

>> No.23310302

so you try that

>> No.23311742

I am 2 or 3 months away from quitting my job if I can't get a substantially better one. I would rather take 6 months off and only focus on writing.

>> No.23311745

>>23309875
The more she shat the more she struggled to contain her awesomeness until she was shitting brown water

>> No.23311765

>decide i need to write according to industry desires to get published
>come across a concept that would do the trick, sure win
>back-burner it for 3 months

>> No.23311770

Damn I have a lot to catch up on with writing careers in 2024. For the first time in years I got inspired today to write and wrote out the entire plot of a book I will now write and finish.
For 3+ hours the words and plot spilled out of me. And I didn't even have coffee. I haven't even read a novel in years. I tried to walk away from it.

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>>23311770
That's based, Anon, I've gotten into flow states like that before. I once wrote 15,000 words in a single day, in a single sitting. It's an exhilerating feeling.