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Excelsior!

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 No.16775

I thought it could be easy to just write some crap on a couple hundred pages and make easy money, but holy shit its actually much harder than it looks.

Its been 3 momths, I rewritten my first chapter like 17 times already, and I still can't write something I would be proud seeing on a bookshelf.

Any writers feel the same way?

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 No.16776

>I thought it could be easy to just write some crap on a couple hundred pages and make easy money, but holy shit its actually much harder than it looks.

>>16775

http://archive.is/liRkH

>The Authors Guild’s 2018 Author Income Survey, the largest survey of writing-related earnings by American authors ever conducted finds incomes falling to historic lows to a median of $6,080 in 2017, down 42 percent from 2009.

You also compete with free webnovels.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/11478249

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 No.16777

>>16775

I've been brainstorming ideas for a story but I'm having a hard time coming up with something good/interesting. At least you can say that you've started.

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 No.16779

>>16776

The trick is to write and do something else. I've thought of writing before but I know I would need a steady job to back it up. Plus stock market.

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 No.16780

>>16779

That's essentially a given because an income of $6,000 makes less than a illegal Mexican laborer working under minimum wage. But the main point is that a book definitely isn't easy money as OP either portrays or perceives it to be. Additionally, we already have AI writers, and that's going to change things further.

Also why isn't the writefag thread used for threads like this? There's tons of anons at least sharing their short stories. The board would be flooded if each fag made a thread for their short story. (Or maybe it's better that way?)

>>15140

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 No.16806

>>16775

If I want to write a novel these days, what do I do? I don’t think traditional publishing is a viable option anymore. I wonder if I should even monetize my story at all.

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 No.16807

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>>16777

I have some ideas:

>Listen to Alex Jones

>Consider what would happen if that world existed

>Portray Alex Jones as a kind of action hero leading a fight against the inter-dimensional aliens and demons and their degenerate human and goblin followers

>Alex's followers arm themselves with alien technology and enter into the hell dimension where the AI god created to control humanity dwells

>He finds a room full of humanoids and frees them

>Alex Jones breaks into the throne room where Hillary Clinton or an analogue thereof is about to complete a ritual that involves

>Alex Jones blows up the psychic machines

>Hillary Clinton freaks out and tells Alex that this was a necessary measure to prevent something worse from happening

>On Earth humans are 'waking up' and running scared as the state of reality is shown to them

>The secret society controlling the world, without their AI god to unify them is now in a bitter civil war

>Shields designed to hold back worse creatures are now weakening

>Alex Jones is then taken to a secret chamber of the fortress by one of the freed fish people- there is a table with a slab of meat

>Transpires neither side truly won the War in Heaven and this is a piece of God

>Alex Jones eats the meat and gains divine powers and the power to foresee and to look into the past

>Transpires that said meat was corrupted by black magicks but Alex Jones isolates and crushes the evil through the power of his willpower and testosterone

Continue from there

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 No.16854

>>16806

Post it on Wattpad or AO3.

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 No.16865

I just finished my story and published the ebook on KDP. How do I advertise it afterwards?

So far I've placed the first parts on RR and Scribblehub. I've also posted drawings on Twitter to show that it exists. I haven't got a single sale yet. I heard people say it's important to build the community and not push sales as the focus.

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 No.16869

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making art is hard and requires practice, knowledge and skill, who would have thonk

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 No.16885

>>16865

Most of the stories I read are completely free. I wouldn't know where you'd sell a book.

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 No.16947

And so the time had come to pass.

The man stood before the towering palaedian, struck with fear. Not fear of harm, but of unknown. Unknown of what is to come of him and his family. Fear of no future for his children. Fear of the void.

Behind the man, at the other end of the living room, stood the wife soothing their children, assuring them all will be well.

He spoke, "I fear you."

… "You needn't fear, we are love."

Silence.

… "As it is, you have a choice." The options were shown to the man.

His mind was not ready for the download, immediately his cranium felt on the verge of exploding. He could feel his temples pulsing, his pupils dilated. Simultaneously he began to silently weep, he saw the spider web of the future unfold of each choice, of the many only 1 can be chosen, but of the many the choice was obvious.

The man "how can I know you will keep your word?"

More thoughts, nay memories, were transferred, then it became clear.

The man looked back at his family, with tears streaming down his face, looked at each in their eyes, looked back at the towering mirror, "lets go."

The man's body crumpled to the floor and the figure stepped over the figure sprawled upon the floor, striding to the fractured family amidst the throes of agony, the palaedian spoke "we must leave now."

Despite the woman's agony, despite her knowing what her husband had said, despite knowing these "beings" were not the emotional creatures humans were, at least not in the same sense that she could understand, she could hear the tones of pain and agony in "it's" voice, similar to her, now dead, husband.

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It was not until many decades later, when she too was faced with the same decision, the same history was shown her, by a similar towering mirror, did she understand why his voice was inside "it's" mouth.

After she too made the same choice did she realise that there more than two palaedian's in their family room that night, not in shadows, or behind walls, but on the other side of the dimensional barrier. There were as many equal to the family, some here and some "there".

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Similar instances happened for each of the children as "time" marched forward. Each situation unique to each child. Each child seeing a different number of tall ones in that room. Each body crumpling to the floor.

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As the last of the mans children made the same decision was the family whole again, each singular and as a whole. One by one were the fractured souls reunited with their celestial bodies.

The wife and the children were guided their bodily journeys by the fathers soul in his celestial body, unbeknownst to them. That is until they made the decision, a decision made in understanding. A decision made knowing that he left his body, but he didn't leave them. A decision made where the next instant they too were reunited with their celestial body. A decision, that transported them both forward and backward in time back to the living room where they saw their father reunited with the waiting family at long last.

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 No.16948

Recently, because of work, I often have problems with studying, I did not know how to cope with this, because I did not have time for homework. I decided that I would contact the professionals from the site https://8kun.top/lit/, because many of my friends are very happy with their work.

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 No.16972

Greetings students! I wish you successful completion of the session, but before that you need to pass all debts, it is very important to do this quickly and efficiently, writing experts from the company https://www.writing-expert.com will help you with this. These guys have been helping students for a long time and it seems to me that they do it at the highest level.

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 No.16977

>>16806

just put it on amazon

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 No.17096

So it works with everything, even if you need to write something small, you still rewrite it several times. I once wrote an essay on Hamlet and rewrote it more than ten times. Although there are only 1000 words, I'm scared of what will happen if I want to write my book. At some point, I even started to take finished works from https://eduzaurus.com/free-essay-samples/hamlet/, but I still decided that I would write it myself. So I think it's normal when you rewrite a lot and have a lot of doubts about your work. It shows how much you care about it and its importance to you.

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