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Did anyone read then? My experience in writing things online is that barely anyone reads them and even fewer comment on them. I might just suck at it, but if d

• edent 3y ago
  I've had a bunch of my blog's readers and Mastodon friends leave comments on them. The stories aren't as popular as my normal blogging - but I was expecting that. Looking at my logs, I've had a few hundred people read them, which is lovely. And, frankly, it doesn't matter if I suck or you suck. The joy of creation is its own payment.
• vidarh 3y ago
  The average published novel hardly sells (couple of hundred copies on average), so if you write for the sake of a big audience, novels are not the thing to write - in that case aim for articles in a well read paper or magazine. Selling even reasonably well takes a mix of persistency (building an audience over multiple works), talent, hard work promoting it yourself, and luck.
  • boznz 3y ago
    So true. I'm still learning the hard part about writing is not the writing, it is getting someone to read it. I documented it here => https://rodyne.com/?page_id=1252 https://rodyne.com/?page_id=1252