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Reading that, it leads me to believe that the best-selling authors are really funding other peoples' hobbies. I wrote a draft of a book around the beginning of
by gwbas1c 6y ago
Reading that, it leads me to believe that the best-selling authors are really funding other peoples' hobbies.
I wrote a draft of a book around the beginning of the pandemic. At the end, I lost interest and moved on to other things. (The whole idea of trying to get it published looked harder than writing the first draft.)
- CuriouslyC 6y agoNot so much, publishers view the long tail of currently non-bestselling authors as a pile of lottery tickets. Some of those will pay off, and that funds the next pile of lottery tickers, which is the business model.
- gwbas1c 6y agoSo do you think it's worth trying to get it published? I enjoyed writing it until I got to the last chapter. By then I was ready to do something else. Honestly, I'm kinda curious what the "time commitment" is to revise and publish. It probably took me about 100 hours to write the first draft. When I've looked back I see typos, so I assume that putting the polish needed to try to publish it would take at least another 100 hours.