This article made so much sense to me- you are unhinged in revealing the truth and darkness of the publishing industry: that ultimately success is measured in profit/sales,
Not the authors’ sense of joy/fullment/creation/invention…..
And this last part is what has built my bridge between being a writer- and making a living a business-oriented published author.
Audience fatigue, creator burnout, information overload - all to be expected in the neverending procedurally generated distraction landscape that continues to expand exponentially until either... people go completely insane... or they choose to unplug from the One Machine while they still can.
Russel, you've obviously mastered the art of time dilation or some such wizardry. Impressive!
As a mere mortal, a defective one at that, I'll be happy with knocking out a few series at my extremely steady pace with more or less acceptable returns for my efforts.
If it all goes to shit over the next five years then at least I can say that I tried. And if things turn around and authors magically get hooked up with all the readers they could ever want through some massively distributed global AI matching service then it will have been worth sticking around for to find out.
That already happens though…Amazon, Google, literally every site is matching readers with books using AI. Billions every day. The issue is that people expect that to work for them, and our never will unless you use it correctly. What am I missing here?
That “utopia” vanished and became this thing we have. You seem to be pining for this world that we actually have, and then saying it also sucks.
And it’s not wizardry. I have been chronically ill for 20 or so years at this point. I have written about it extensively. For several of those years I was basically confined to bed or a couch for 10-20 hours a day.
I am not a wizard and I don’t like when people say that. I am a human and I am broken and I still did it. Thinking different makes it seem like it’s not possible but I am a human. I am broken. I have no special magic. And I did it.
I literally across over 1000 posts dating back to 2008 and 19 nonfiction books have shown exactly what I did.
This article made so much sense to me- you are unhinged in revealing the truth and darkness of the publishing industry: that ultimately success is measured in profit/sales,
Not the authors’ sense of joy/fullment/creation/invention…..
And this last part is what has built my bridge between being a writer- and making a living a business-oriented published author.
Ty again for your insights:)
Audience fatigue, creator burnout, information overload - all to be expected in the neverending procedurally generated distraction landscape that continues to expand exponentially until either... people go completely insane... or they choose to unplug from the One Machine while they still can.
Russel, you've obviously mastered the art of time dilation or some such wizardry. Impressive!
As a mere mortal, a defective one at that, I'll be happy with knocking out a few series at my extremely steady pace with more or less acceptable returns for my efforts.
If it all goes to shit over the next five years then at least I can say that I tried. And if things turn around and authors magically get hooked up with all the readers they could ever want through some massively distributed global AI matching service then it will have been worth sticking around for to find out.
Thanks to people like you, that is.
That already happens though…Amazon, Google, literally every site is matching readers with books using AI. Billions every day. The issue is that people expect that to work for them, and our never will unless you use it correctly. What am I missing here?
That “utopia” vanished and became this thing we have. You seem to be pining for this world that we actually have, and then saying it also sucks.
And it’s not wizardry. I have been chronically ill for 20 or so years at this point. I have written about it extensively. For several of those years I was basically confined to bed or a couch for 10-20 hours a day.
I am not a wizard and I don’t like when people say that. I am a human and I am broken and I still did it. Thinking different makes it seem like it’s not possible but I am a human. I am broken. I have no special magic. And I did it.
I literally across over 1000 posts dating back to 2008 and 19 nonfiction books have shown exactly what I did.
Please do not demean me by saying differently.