Coli Writers...Help me out of this Funk :(

[The Intergalactic Koala]

Is it me or this is a shytty time to be a writer or even thinking about being motivated to pick up a pen or typewriter

• AI can make a complete book thus bum ass "writers" post the shyt on Amazon, while creative writers have to get the shaft
• Low ball agencies and publishers trying to jerk you or relying on you to pay a shyt load of money to even get a toe in the door
• The push for clickbait articles and negativity trauma, versus insightful and thought-provoking philosophies
• Smut>>>>>>literature
• How to blogs>>>

Don't get me started with the whole Podcast/Audio book steez that's making books irrelevant.

Like how do some of yall struggling writers maintain or successful in this field. I thought the music thing was brutal, but good grief at least I'm motivated to bust out a tune, versus coming up with a story or a poem.

Give the deets

 

[maxamusa]

You just have to be that fly breh.....



think rick flair or ghost face killa.....

thats shyt no computer could ever replicate....but if it aint in you; it aint in u.

 

[2Quik4UHoes]

Breh, you’re an intergalactic koala….I think people would be interested in your writing.

 

[Spiider]

Have you heard of web novels? There are sites where you can post novels a chapter at a time for people to read and comment on. Some people create Patreon accounts so that people can pay them money to read chapters early. Then they collect all the chapters into an e-book and sell them on Amazon. It's hard to stand out and build a big audience but the most popular web novelists are making a crazy amount of money right now.

If you write fantasy of sci-fi stuff, then the best site for web novels is Royal Road. I'm not sure about other genres

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

Have you heard of web novels? There are sites where you can post novels a chapter at a time for people to read and comment on. Some people create Patreon accounts so that people can pay them money to read chapters early. Then they collect all the chapters into an e-book and sell them on Amazon. It's hard to stand out and build a big audience but the most popular web novelists are making a crazy amount of money right now.

If you write fantasy of sci-fi stuff, then the best site for web novels is Royal Road. I'm not sure about other genres

I was thinking about doing novellas. I actually wrote a book years ago but looking back at it, it was all over the place. Like my biggest issue now is dealing with writer's block and lack of inspiration.

Last time I wrote was for Medium and it was just motivational stuff, poems, and things I went through.

I have so many ideas, its just a mess to put on paper.

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

Breh, you’re an intergalactic koala….I think people would be interested in your writing.

Appreciate it my human . I actually had somewhat of a following during the pandemic, but a whole lot happen that pretty much killed my desire to write and kept the site going.

 

[TEH]

Keep it Intergalactic
Keep it Wild

In other words lean into being unapologetically you warts and all.

Don’t worry about if it’s perfect …

did you show your heart …

did you bare your soul?

 

[Jasonmask]

Watch some artistic films to get inspired. Have a drink or two. If you have a foundation or idea for what you want to write then post it here and people can help or throw in plots

 

[Redwood]

Watch Californication.

 

[RickyDiBiase]

My homie's cousin who does acting out in L.A./Atlanta does both

Acting and writing, because he loves it.

Focus on just getting the shyt done breh.

 

[Jimmy from Linkedin]

I have so many ideas, its just a mess to put on paper.

this is your answer.

its work.

every job has its downsides.

there is no circumventing your inability to put your ideas down on paper. These ideas are the ideas you want to share. the ideas you want to be appreciated. The ideas that you, presumably, want to be paid for. If you can't make an order out of the mess...well, there's always work at the post office.

 

[Jean Jacket]

I usually have 10 to 15 drafts of a piece.

Read your work out loud/record it and repeat it.

The parts that you remember or give you goosebumps stay. Don't overthink what to say. It's all about tapping into the pure essence of your message.

Dragon or some other form of talk to text can help you pull everything out to play with.

 

[TL15]

What help do you need exactly?

Help ridding yourself of writers block?
Help finding paying gigs?

 

[Sister Mary Clarence]

Don’t concern yourself with how you’re going to get people to read your book before you even write the book.

Writing isn’t about that.

Write because you enjoy it. Because creating something out of thin air is Godlike. That’s where the joy lies. In the process itself.

When it’s all done, then put it out into the world. If you truly wrote for you and not what you thought people wanted to read, it will be good. And good things find their audience.

 

[Jimmy from Linkedin]

yes it is a shytty time to be a writer.


that being said, i was able to find some paid success writing by writing my theories down (2019), turning those into a podcast(2019-present), and then moving with my now wife into a different city, finding an organization that allowed me to implement some of those ideas(for free then later paid), luckily getting a tv interview from a reporter who also moved to that town and then an editor reached out to me to contribute to a yearly anthology. This is the second year i have contributed to it.

However, if you aren't in the position to get those ideas effecting change on the material world, then within the niche that you want to write in, look for journals that are accepting submissions in those areas, h-net.org for the academic side, local CfPs, local conferences.

Master P has been wrong about literally every other business endeavor except for the fact that one has to believe in oneself to sell records out the trunk. the internet and real life is the trunk in the parking lot. Not all parking lots are helpful.

Open up your trunk in the parking lot of your audience and make em say uhhhh


abandon considerations that writing is what changes things. Writing helps you get to yourself. I never thought i'd be paid to write about the ideas I gave out for free. Although that was a part of the reason why I started (some podcast i used to listen to talked about "if you can talk forever about any subject you should be getting paid for that expertise"). The ideas that I am being paid for NOW were NOT what I was talking about then, but the theme carries through.


getting your ideas out of the mess and into order...the primordial plasma big-banged into matter. The planet of the water had sand cast from the snail to make the land to make the life. This is the universal way. You better get it in order breh, its the only thing going.