For this, and any other Wacky Writing Ideas, I happily release them into the wild for anyone to use. If you like the idea and want to write it up, do so with my blessing! If you want to change it or use it for something else, have at it! If you really want to do […]
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Writers Building Their Mailing List With StoryOrigins
I’ve previously written comparing StoryOrigins to other, related services like BookFunnel, Prolific Works, and BookSprout. In this post, I wanted to do a deeper dive talking about what StoryOrigins actually is and how writers can use it to help sell books. Despite the man behind the site, Evan Gow, writing an extensive explanation of every […]
Wacky Writing Idea #2: Sci-Fi Universe Where All The Alien Races Just Recently Entered Space
For this, and any other Wacky Writing Ideas, I happily release them into the wild for anyone to use. If you like the idea and want to write it up, do so with my blessing! If you want to change it or use it for something else, have at it! If you really want to […]
Wacky Writing Idea #1: Authoritarian Hogwarts
For this, and any other Wacky Writing Ideas, I happily release them into the wild for anyone to use. If you like the idea and want to write it up, do so with my blessing! If you want to change it or use it for something else, have at it! If you really want to […]
How To Take Advice When Starting As A Writer
Being the type of person I am, I’ve read a number of books, articles, and blogs with writing advice. I’ve gone to writing meetups, joined appropriate online communities, and sought out interactions with other writers. There’s an avalanche of advice for writers, with great enthusiasm from both the people asking the questions and offering the […]
Many Software Developers Are Underpaid
Young people are flooding into computer science programs. Working as a software developer, or tech worker generally, is seen as an easy path to a high salary. In spite of this, it’s clear that above-average software developers are underpaid compared to the value they bring to organizations. The range in productivity of developers is HUGE. […]
Creators Promoting Their Work
It’s challenging for creators to try to find an audience for their work. All advice for doing this amounts to: 1) find where people who like your sort of thing online are and 2) tell them about your stuff. When a creator first attempts to execute this, they find these people INCREDIBLY, and surprisingly, hostile. […]
The Complicated Relationship Between Creators and Consumers
There was recently a release of outraged articles when George R. R. Martin called some of his own fans “internet assholes”. Further back, there were angry trekkies when William Shatner announced that he would no longer sign autographs outside of paid convention signings. During his baseball career, Barry Bonds was famously hostile to his fans. […]
Monetizing Communities
I’ve been a member of online communities since before most people had heard of the internet. Before internet access had reached the masses, bulletin board systems (BBSes) allowed computers to connect, one-on-one, and form local, small versions of what we’re all now apart of. One element of this has been the evolution of online communities, […]
BookFunnel, StoryOrigin, Prolific Works, and BookSprout
When people first consider writing, they believe that writing is the hard part. Then, once they have a written draft, they assume editing and getting it ready for release is the hard part. Once they’ve published, they find that getting people to consider reading what they’ve created is actually the hard part. A number of […]