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the shit they never teach in any writing courses... selling. I think a lot of us are innately bad at it, in fact, I think there's a perfect inverse correlation between gift with language and the narcissist urge to blurt it from the rooftops... can't be helped... this is where we are... we _have_ to become those people... I'm not even talking to you... I'm telling myself....

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I’ve said for years, NONE of the people who are creative succeed, and none of the people who succeed are creative. It sounds paranoid to outsiders but watch for, like, a week. My “writing partner” got a deal stealing a character based on my dead best friend. While trying pathetically to fuck me. If I ever see him I will (redacted) him slowly, and he won’t like it.

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everything I thought I knew about “arts and letters” was wrong….

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But your analysis is correct. These two personalities used to be two jobs: The publisher and the writer. Now the publisher has taken over hogging everything. These fat pigs need to be spitted.

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take first 3 chapters. free samples… put rest behind paywall. start posting excerpts and snippets from the 3 chapters… add some commentary to introduce each… you will build your audience…

my other suggestion is… hook up with a visual artist you like, discuss potential budget and do short snippets against picture backdrops on Tiktok or Insta with links back to your platform on Substack…. lush voice overs… your descriptions are so rich… these would do incredibly well as outtakes.

this is the campaign I’m attempting to put together for my novels… and I need to talk to fucking gamers…

the readers aren’t here…..

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(well, it's all complicated by my situation, can't really do the paywall, can't really discuss it in public, but there are so very many reasons why I need a lawyer. Are there ANY people who will do publicity for a reasonable fee or is that all shit and charlatans?)

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at least do this… keep 3 chapters, and remove the rest… don’t hand it to them for free.

here’s the thing… I have no Hollywood claims… 2 options from 2 failed attempts means nothing…. BUT… in our 3-year run at Hollywood, the sheer amount of thieving that went on is mindnumbing… titles, character names… plots, themes… ideas… ransacked to the hilt… we marketed ourselves as a production team, 47 Ronin … 2 years later one of the studios had a 47 Ronin movie … then the Hollywood types go, yeah, that’s parallel development…. fuck them

keep 3 chapters… dont hand it away for free…. and work your legal problem

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the free ones are charlatans, 100%…

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I don't feel like I have time to do any of this, too much to write, and I don't know what to do.

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Wow, I'm really in a mood, I've been hanging up wallpaper for four hours. No wonder nobody uses wallpaper anymore.

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here's what you have to do... take a chapter a day, every few days, start with the _Intro_ ... and bombard the _fantasy_ thread, the _fiction_ thread, the _liiterature_ thread... use your own short intro to the chapters... and just keep at it and at it and at it... nothing too obnoxious.... but... persistent... one thing I _did_ pick up from my brief flirtations with Hollywood and the NY Lit scene, they do love it when the author shows pluck and moxy in promoting their own shit....

and... try your hand at some AI prompts... with descriptions such as yours, you don't need to do anything to feed it into a text-speech engine, see what it coughs up... set the scene type of thing.... help give the reader's imagination a kick in the ass....

don't just let this sit here online and in 2 years you _will_ see parts of this on Netflix... I swear it.... these fucking thieving creativity-bereft soulless ghouls are out there....

the day of rolling over and croaking and hoping a relative or a loved one or a friend has the wherewithal to carry our torches for us is gone....

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Boy, I'm in a mood.

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You think I should wall it off? Parts of it have already been stolen. I would like to take a fucking blowtorch to a shitty zombie.

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I’d do 3 chapters free to read… put the rest behind a paywall…

you know what some kid did 2 days ago? opened an account… screamed racism, wrote some clickbaity shit about white racists and then made his comments for subscribers only… there were several 100 comments. I shit you not….

hucksters… everywhere hucksters…….

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Jesus fucking christ, oink

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