If You Want to Make It as a Writer, for God's Sakes, Be Weird
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If You Want to Make It as a Writer, for God's Sakes, Be Weird
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#2>Start a website under your own name and your own URL. Not on Medium or Substack but on your own domain. You can call the blog part something fancy but the URL is your name.
It sounds like he's talking about James Howard Kunstler.
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#3>Start a website under your own name and your own URL. Not on Medium or Substack but on your own domain. You can call the blog part something fancy but the URL is your name. It sounds like he's talking about James Howard Kunstler.
also he himself is on substack
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#4>Start a website under your own name and your own URL. Not on Medium or Substack but on your own domain. You can call the blog part something fancy but the URL is your name. It sounds like he's talking about James Howard Kunstler.
also he himself is on substack
But he also has his own personal website on his own domain that aggregates or points to his work on other platforms. He didn't say not to use those external services, just don't fully depend on them.
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#5>Start a website under your own name and your own URL. Not on Medium or Substack but on your own domain. You can call the blog part something fancy but the URL is your name. It sounds like he's talking about James Howard Kunstler.
Oh man, I've missed him... his latest rant
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/the-raptures-of-hype...
reminds me exactly why I loved him... he expresses the worries I have, and suddenly I feel less alone in my worries.
Re: If You Want to Make It as a Writer, for God's Sakes, Be Weird
#6"People don't like me because of my actions, which says a lot about them but nothing about me somehow."
Re: If You Want to Make It as a Writer, for God's Sakes, Be Weird
#7Been writing wannabe professional for a bit now and the short story fiction I’ve been working on (3+ volumes) could probs be classified as weird. (Not a forced weird, just happens)
That said, definitely haven’t made any financial gains in the world of writing, and “optimizing” for weird, based on firsthand experience , doesn’t quite ring as sage advice
If you want to “make it as a writer,” and unless you’re kinda hardcore about it, it may be a better idea to start a podcast / real-time capture your journey as a writer (while writing.)
Printed text (books) requires work to access and usually doesn’t do a great job marketing itself / has “low-virality.”
Reading is work; watching / listening is easy, maybe even relaxing.
Beyond your average interview podcast, pursuing a career as a writer & sharing that work via podcast is a direction I personally haven’t yet seen explored at length
Re: If You Want to Make It as a Writer, for God's Sakes, Be Weird
#8Been writing wannabe professional for a bit now and the short story fiction I’ve been working on (3+ volumes) could probs be classified as weird. (Not a forced weird, just happens) That said, definitely haven’t made any financial gains in the world of writing, and “optimizing” for weird, based on firsthand experience , doesn’t quite ring as sage advice If you want to “make it as a writer,” and unless you’re kinda har…
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Re: If You Want to Make It as a Writer, for God's Sakes, Be Weird
#9>Start a website under your own name and your own URL. Not on Medium or Substack but on your own domain. You can call the blog part something fancy but the URL is your name. It sounds like he's talking about James Howard Kunstler.
Oh man, I've missed him... his latest rant https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/the-raptures-of-hype... reminds me exactly why I loved him... he expresses the worries I have, and suddenly I feel less alone in my worries.
You and me both brotha.