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Writer of the original article here. I've been avoiding commenting so far as the discussion's made most of the points I'd want to make, but I thought I'd chime
by thenomad 11y ago
Writer of the original article here. I've been avoiding commenting so far as the discussion's made most of the points I'd want to make, but I thought I'd chime in on this one.
Speaking as someone in the same position as tjradcliffe but in the movie (and now comics) world rather than prose, his analysis is spot-on. Discovery's the problem.
In the indie narrative film world - which is in a much, much worse position when it comes to discovery and distribution than the self-publishing world in most ways for reasons somewhat too complicated to go into in a short comment - there's an aphorism about the current situation that I'm hearing more and more.
"There's never been a better time to make a film, and never been a worse time to get anyone to watch it."
Like tjradcliffe, I'm experimenting with ways around it. And like him I've ended up settling on serial works - both Carcosa, which is mentioned in the article, and other stuff that I'll be bringing out shortly. But that's far from a complete solution to the problem.