Disclaimer: I’m working on a micro fiction app. Ironically, Justin’s argument gets lost in repetitive rhetoric. Not that repeating an idea for emphasis is bad

Disclaimer: I’m working on a micro fiction app. Ironically, Justin’s argument gets lost in repetitive rhetoric. Not that repeating an idea for emphasis is bad per se — I personally lost interest at the 60% mark once I got the gist of it. He’s right though. Books are often purchased like mementos to signal the ideals you’d like to be associated with. And to add to the irony, Justin may be inadvertently writing his book for the same reasons. It’s fun to be thought of as a published author, to escape the 9-5, and to do something passionate for a living. Personally, I don’t have much of an attention span for long form, so I can sympathize with my own readers. I took it as feedback to rework my book into a ADHD friendly format.[1] I want stories that have a true sense of time between pages, character dialogue that feels like more than text on a page, and exposition that has a verisimilitude rivaling a movie. …But not everyone wants that. Some authors want to publish books the way they’ve always been written. I just wouldn’t be surprised if finding dedicated readers gets harder every year. [1] (NSFW) https://hugbox.biz/story/is-that-me/the-girl-in-the-mirror/ https://hugbox.biz/story/is-that-me/the-girl-in-the-mirror/