Why No One Cares About Your Writing
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- Опубліковано 9 жов 2024
- Why do so many great writers have zero readers? How can you build an audience as a writer in 2024 without sacrificing your style? What is the path to creating the most impact as a writer in the modern world? All these questions and more will be answered in the video.
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Hell most writers' family & friends wont even read their writing. When i was a good artist/painter everyone loved looking at my art...cuz it only required a glance. When i wrote novels and asked for anyone to read them...crickets. and more crickets. Bigger time investment. Being Trad pubbed by a huge NY publisher only moved the needle of interest with my family & friends slightly.
Brian Lee Durfee!
That's gotta be liberating, in a way.
Bro, 100%. When I painted everyone was interested. As soon as I stopped and wrote, no one cared. Like 5 of my friends and family even downloaded/purchased my books. And I didn’t mind if they didn’t like it, but most didn’t even finish to tell me.
It's really discouraging especially when you're young. My sister painted and drew, I wrote. Everyone always fawned over her art and was so encouraging. But nobody paid attention when I tried to show them a poem or a story. It's really tough to not think maybe you're just not that good when even your family doesn't care. I ended up learning to draw but I just love it the same way I love writing
@@VampireNinjaBunniesI mean you’re asking someone to dedicate a lot of their time. And poetry isn’t as impressive for many people than a drawing or painting. I mean people can be supportive without actually consuming your media. Your family and friends should not be your target audience. They’re just there for moral support. The amount of friends and family that go “oh are you still doing that film thing.” And then move on. Most people don’t even like to read. It shouldn’t discourage you because again they’re not your target audience. Even successful artist say that their family is proud of them but never picked up their book. Don’t be discouraged. The point of writing is to write. That’s it. Hopefully you find your people. That’s all you can hope for.
Probably because I only write fan fiction about Transformers
Probably because the algorithms block my prolific use of racial invective and the ugliest of conspiracy theories.
Maybe you show Decepticons could be good transformers as well! :)
Does Starscream finally get Megataron?? I'd read that!!
@@graeme4413 you’re going to have to wait till book 5 for the “will they or won’t they” conclusion
Say more, drop the link
The problem isn’t really authors if 4 million books are published. It’s readers. People do not read books for the most part. The vast majority of the public read nothing. Then the next swath of people only read one book a year, which is just going to be the latest fluff. The next ever smaller group of people read maybe one book a month. People who are doing Booktube channels and reading several books a month are a complete anomaly that publishers don’t even pay attention to because they don’t reflect any reality that can be marketed. I probably get through 20-25 books a year. I am in a very tiny minority of people and I don’t even think that’s a lot of reading, but I am busy with a small business, 10 employees and a family.
Call me crazy, but I think as a writer you have to attack this part of the process with almost complete disregard and or ignorance. I am not at that point yet, but I write as though I have a large enough audience to appeal to. I believe that my book is better than anything found on Netflix or TikTok or lowbrow fiction both in terms of content and entertainment, and that means the proof is in the pudding. There will be those smart enough to realize their time has been wasted on these platforms and they will turn to literature. It’s already happening to some degree. A product will succeed if the product is more effective than its competition.
I self-published a novel and wrote two stories that were published by small presses, but I didn't find an audience until I wrote a long true crime essay in my late forties. Things rarely go according to plan.
I’ve been editing my poetry book for the past 4 months and I’ve loved it. It’s coming out October 4th & would absolutely love for you to read it!
Fudge...I'm about to put out my first book..I don't expect to make money but I would like to think someone will enjoy it
Ill read it 💪
What's it about?
@@lloydb5595 thank you for that. I will probably stick with my working title "Blackest of Black" by Danny Aglugub(me). Aiming to have it on KDP before the end of the year
@@nathanhassallpoetry Historical fiction/Family Saga with intermediate theological theme. It is about a Humanist Literati of Renaissance France who tries to save his family and country from being split under religious persecution of the Huguenots.
Same here brother
Franz Kafka, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Schopenhauer, Nitszche changed my life.... I write because I want to leave a legacy that I exist... I had accepted that I might not be a successful writer... but writing is like a diary to me... I just changed names and names of places but it was about me...
Glad they changed your life 😊
The Jack Kerouac technique, I like it
You're inspiring, dude. Never lose the fire.
I just put one of those 5000+ hour novels on Royal Road. It's doing... OK-ish. Not as fast as I hoped, but it's getting momentum. I'll probably be in position to release a physical copy-I agree, computer screens and phones aren't the best way to distribute literature-by late spring.
The upsetting paradox of trad-pub-and yeah, even though they're losing their cultural relevance, they do suck up all the oxygen-is that you have to impress a whole wall of nonserious people to stand a chance of even getting to the few serious people.
Whats it called? Would like to check it out
Deep into that manuscript peering, long I sat there, wondering, fearing, doubting, proposing prose no mortal ever presumed to pose before; But the word block was unbroken, and the videos gave no token, and the only words then written were the whispered words, “What for?”
This I whispered, and a Tuber posted back the words, “What For?!”
Some people might care -- but why should they care? What's in it for them? What experience is in your writing that makes it worth reading?
I guess it is true no one will care about your writing as much as you do. But if your writing is good, there will be people that care. People say the same about UA-cam videos: no one cares until they do.
What a great point. Most fiction is about the author. Most non fiction is about the reader. But emphasizing the point about transformation is spot on. You’re 100% right. I only recommend books that I personally found transformational (even some fiction, but rarely). And I love Cormac McCarthy.
The works that transformed me are Berserk and Bojack Horseman. They are concerned with some of the most fundamental aspects of life. Tragedy, suffering, trauma, the search for meaning, and so on. I think something really needs to be emotionally profound to affect and transform someone on a deeper level. Can't wait for the skool to open, keep up the good work brother.
Great points, but i still wanna push forward with my book .Im writing a sci-fi thriller novel with deep themes of philosophical arguments,compelling mystery,horrific circumstances, realistic future technology,and much more.
I had a signing at Barnes and Nobles and put it all over social media and expected so much…didn’t work. Also, my brother writes those Little Golden Books at Random House. Thought that would help me, too-nope, lol!
How did you go about marketing? I'm curious.
Marketing through Amazon ads and also Google ads. Considering a billboard. But frankly, I may order author copies and sit out on SoHo or 42nd … ive run the numbers and they look good
@@nathanhassallpoetry Marketing online, mostly. Going to try a billboard, soon. But overall, I ran the numbers and think I can do really well sitting out on 42nd or Soho to sell my novels.
Help you with what exactly? Signing at Barnes & Nobel… what do you mean it didn’t work? Aren’t signing for people who already have a fan base? Did they or the publisher host it? Are you chasing fame? I’m so confused. What’s your goal? Cause I was taught very early on that if you’re chasing fame or money, you’re in the wrong profession.
Love your channel. I have a novel I wrote I’ve shelved for a year because it put me in a spiritual crisis that it was more important to attend to than writing. But I’m pumped to get back at it now from a more resolved perspective, and hopefully convey that experience to others it could help.
So you are telling me to go and write non fiction self helps books.???? Cmon Ian!!
transformational doesn’t necessarily mean self-help books
Back in the day people write and then get recognized, nowadays you get recognized first, and you HAVE to be, before you can sell your books. I'm releasing my second novel next month without an audience, but I'm hoping to hop onto SPFBO and get the recognition from there lol
Wish me luck!
What's your first novel?
@@daliblue_ First novel is called “Vile Artistry” and the one I’m releasing next week is called “Gotterhavn: Hecatomb’s Prize”
Thanks for your interest
I worked part time in between jobs and studies with no social life on several short stories fanfictions and my Weird Fiction Novel. Basically thid video reveals that it was all for nothing and dad is going to shoot himself once he finds out and I basically allowed my passion for reading and Fantasy, Sci-fi, and comic book fiction ruin my life further after I couldn't keep paying to study engineering because I didn't want that student debt...
The unions sure don't want me and I still have a ways to go to be in shape for construction and I am 32. I am done.
Because the literary and entertainment writing is too saturated and even if I do get published I likely won't get more than 8 grand per book I write. Which means I am going to have to crank out three every month.
I don't even know if my work can even count as transformative because of it's archaic horror inspirations and even then it's about raging in vain against a hostile immense universe that crushes people and civilizations as a consequence of its natural laws rather than intention.
I screwed myself by trying... I always try... It always ends the same... I HAVE JUST DAD AND A CAT ONCE THAT IS GONE I HAVE NOTHING!!!
Interesting that you put GRRM into literary fiction. For me it would go straight into the entertaining category.
Exactly. It's shlock. It's entertaining shlock. But it actually isn't as deep as it pretends to be.
Your passion for writing is infectious. I think you put your finger on the pulse of why millions of books are published yearly these days, but interest in literature is in decline. It lacks that transformative nature. Good stuff!
The comments on these videos are nuts.
Ngl the comment about somebody writing transformers fan fiction had me rolling laughing 😂
I love your enthusiasm.
The art we need to produce needs to the speak to the future. Write in a way that won't win the financial lottery, but in a way that will make your great grandchildren proud.
I used to think I was a terribly slow writer. Hearing these legendary authors spend 5000 hours to revise is a comfort.
This idea of "there's already enough entertainment out there" is so America brained😂😂
How many African inspired, Indian inspired, Chinese, Polynesian inspired fantasy/sci fi etc books there? How many rooms could you fill with them? I bet not a lot.
There are many cultures with as yet untapped material in the entertainment category still. Dragons and werewolves is not the end all be all.
You should watch Hanuman. It’s Peak Cinema
Yeah bro indian sci-fi is what the literary world needs
Also time advances. I want a modern writer to reflect my modern problems. It's nice to read the problems of person in the age of geographic expansion on a ship but sometimes you need somebody who knows how frustrating a printer malfunction is.
List of transformative books to read?
See, this is what happens when stories no longer focus om themes and values, which are universal.
Your starting to really pique my interest. I have subscribed and look forward to your knowledge and literary words.
author's egos lol they just have a sly grinning twitch, honestly we're psychopaths
Yeees! Words can't describe how hyped I'm for the Writing School. Love this channel. 💜💜
I'm very interested in the Transformative category. Do you have videos on how to do that? And is it possible for a book to be both literary *and* transformative, or entertaining *and* transformative? Thanks for the video. Bark, bark.
Couple topics you might have fun making vids about:
Iceland's writing scene--more writers/readers per capita than any other nation on the planet.
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How Cory Doctorow gives all his stuff away open source in addition to traditional publishing.
Great commentary and very frank.
I try to write with two thoughts, is this the best version of this story that this story can be? And is what is written down going to add value to the reader's life in any way. If the answer to either of these questions is no, then the book is not done to me. Idk if it needs to be 5000 hours of editing, but certainly, there needs to be standards of what should be acceptable to be published.
So ready for writing school 🫡
Man, that’s so true about literary short stories on screens. If I like the first paragraph I’ll print the webpage and stick it in a binder. I tell myself it’s okay to kill the tree because now I can keep it and reread it later.
I’ve maybe reread three of them lmao
I can hear the truth of your words. I have a transformational story that I have spent over 10 years on. I am interested in your workshop, As I both want to learn and teach voice.
Robert Anton Wilson and Philip K. Dick changed my life.
What about books that are literary, entertaining, and transformative?
Because I’m a nerd 😞 (I am the greatest thing to have walked this earth and all shall kneel before me)
We have a lit-head over here.
It’s cool if you don’t see this, or even answer it Ian. But I just bought some more books today, and I grabbed the heart of darkness. Have you ever read it? Just curious.
Which Books are transformative except Infinite Jest?
Infinite Jest isn’t the only transformative book. Books that are transformative will be personal to you. That depends on what you’re going through at a certain time of your life and a book that speaks to you in a way that you didn’t know was possible. Infinite Jest is personal to this content creator. Read widely. I’m sure you’ll find something.
@@nenyeo6090 That was a very good answer. Thank you!
@@DirkHelnerus you’re welcome🖤 go forth and discover more books.
- bark! bark!
somebody needs to use that for a title god dammit
He gives 'Twin Flames' energy but I love it.
I admire your passion for Literature
I guarantee you there are a few sentences in my book that I’ve revised longer than people have the entirety of their books.
thankyou.
Really, we’re putting George RR Martin amongst great writers 😂 and it’s literary now 😂. Nah, it’s just entertaining, fun cheap entertainment🤷🏾♀️
Write a good book, get a publisher.
Write another. Write another.
Keep going.
Write another. And another.
Write five more.
Aaand... have you written 10 books yet?
No?
Keep going.
You're not gonna get anywhere on a single book unless you're really lucky.
"I don't vote ,I don't care about politics (Hence ignore it's impact on other people especially poor)" also me "Please read me, care about my writing" :) I don't think these should exist mutually :)
This got me pumped!
Real talk.
Arlie Prairie
Preach on brother
Rupi Kaur is the modern Cormac McCarthy.
Seriously!!!????
Is she?
Nobody is comparable to him. Better to just be yourself
MICRO GENRE TOM BIRD AWAKENING
Preach!
To be, or not to be. That might have been the question once. I am now to old to care - that is my poem I will sell it if anybody is interested $1000
Guaranteed.
Lets gooooo
•spittingfire•
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Vitruvia 144... Experience the end of reality, and transcend into what's next. Read this book and you will be transformed. Your life begins when you wake from your oblivious slumber with a dream to realize.
Awaken. Wonder. Experience more than the objective world. Slumber no more. Open your mind. Manifest the dreams within you. Evolve.
(& find a hidden message in this text for smirking rights)