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How In The Fuck Do You Get People To Read Your Shit?
This year I have started typing my first drafts on an IBM Wheelwriter 1000 and then re-typing the second draft onto my laptop.
I made the decision to do this because it feels more like work what I’m doing and I like the sound of the keys when I’m typing away. On a subconscious level I assume I’ve made this choice because I’m a white male in my early 20s and can’t help being such a fucking stereotypical hipster.
I just checked out God Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens from the library today. I might as well move to Brooklyn and frown upon people who don’t drink microbrews.
So I’m trying to type up this story onto my laptop about a guy who is spending Christmas Eve inside of a strip club and I keep slowing down imagining how nobody will give a single fuck about this god damn story.
When I release it on Amazon through Kindle Direct Publishing and do a free download deal for five days I’ll probably get like…….maybe nine people who are going to discover this and give a fuck enough to download it. MAYBE one of those nine people will be reading it.
I’ve been self-publishing my stories through Amazon for almost two years now and I think it’s safe to say that I’m really getting nowhere.
For self-published authors I have discovered that for the most part Amazon is a place only for erotic authors.
Over the summer I wrote erotic stories under multiple pen names and humorous porn reviews under my own name and these are the only things I’ve written that receive any attention.
It’s pretty great even if it’s erotica that someone is not only taking the time to notice what the fuck you’re doing and even PURCHASING THE STORIES, but it’s a fucking bummer that the only people who take a chance on self-published authors seem to be horny housewives.
I just don’t get how any porn story I write can get a hundred free downloads over the course of a few days and even a couple of my stories are receiving daily purchases while my other stuff is failing to find any sliver of an audience.
So is there any place as a fiction writer to be noticed and possibly have someone come across what you’re doing whether it be for free or pay? Or is writing outside of erotica just an abandoned wasteland where you’re within the one percent if a single person comes across you and reads whatever you wrote?
I made the decision to do this because it feels more like work what I’m doing and I like the sound of the keys when I’m typing away. On a subconscious level I assume I’ve made this choice because I’m a white male in my early 20s and can’t help being such a fucking stereotypical hipster.
I just checked out God Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens from the library today. I might as well move to Brooklyn and frown upon people who don’t drink microbrews.
So I’m trying to type up this story onto my laptop about a guy who is spending Christmas Eve inside of a strip club and I keep slowing down imagining how nobody will give a single fuck about this god damn story.
When I release it on Amazon through Kindle Direct Publishing and do a free download deal for five days I’ll probably get like…….maybe nine people who are going to discover this and give a fuck enough to download it. MAYBE one of those nine people will be reading it.
I’ve been self-publishing my stories through Amazon for almost two years now and I think it’s safe to say that I’m really getting nowhere.
For self-published authors I have discovered that for the most part Amazon is a place only for erotic authors.
Over the summer I wrote erotic stories under multiple pen names and humorous porn reviews under my own name and these are the only things I’ve written that receive any attention.
It’s pretty great even if it’s erotica that someone is not only taking the time to notice what the fuck you’re doing and even PURCHASING THE STORIES, but it’s a fucking bummer that the only people who take a chance on self-published authors seem to be horny housewives.
I just don’t get how any porn story I write can get a hundred free downloads over the course of a few days and even a couple of my stories are receiving daily purchases while my other stuff is failing to find any sliver of an audience.
So is there any place as a fiction writer to be noticed and possibly have someone come across what you’re doing whether it be for free or pay? Or is writing outside of erotica just an abandoned wasteland where you’re within the one percent if a single person comes across you and reads whatever you wrote?
