The American spirit is never knowing when to quit.
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30 days hath September
April, June, and November
All the rest have 31
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X Factor. Jamie Archer. Hasnāt been active on YouTube for 5 years. Hasnāt been active on IG for 1 year.
I hope heās still doing music.
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Iām not writing or reading till I rid my lower back pain for good.
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Kill the spirit
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I think Iām an artist now. Iām making short films for my poetry for an exhibition (hopefully). Iām gonna use my body, get really physical for them.
I wanted to get comfortable being on camera so I booked a Ā£600 nude photoshoot session with my ex lol. Anything for the art! He wonāt do it for free or give a discount (understandable).
Thankfully an arts fund is footing the bill lmao I love it. I wonder if I could get away with getting them to pay for my lunch while Iām working on this hmmā¦
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Overthinking about my writing.
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Iāve been watching K-dramas a bit more often and I am not mad at that.
Mainly the ones I am watching are crime related.
Those are really good.
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I love this guyās voice. And yanno, I bet his pickles are freaking awesome. (>āæā )
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Soooooo I accidently created another short story collection again 
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I donāt put myself out there as a writer at all.
Its the fear and lack of money that is holding me back.
Along with not knowing how. Iām not going to self-publish, just traditionally publish and yet I feel like I should be doing something.
I just donāt know what to do so early in game while Iām still writing the first draft.
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Evidently youāre supposed to be collecting followers like Audra Winter did by posting character art, fantasy maps, worldbuilding info, face claims, mood boards, playlists, cover reveals and everything else except excerpts of your work. Did you hear that Jenna Moreci was recently offered a book deal by Penguin Random House? She didnāt even seek it; they just came out of the blue and approached her because she has so many followers. Thatās the name of the game nowācollecting followers. Youāll never get a book deal these days without followers, methinks, so itās GREAT that youāre not ready to publish yet. That gives you time to court readers the same way Audra did for five years before she ever published. Itāll seriously take me at least five years to collect any, so I need to take my own advice and start posting stuff somewhere. * nod nod *
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It is highly unfortunate that this is all creative careers these days. When I was an actor, follower count didnāt matter. Less than a decade later, good luck getting an agent without a million IG followers. Itās all so ewwy
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Today I feel good. Iāve got my PC locked down to do a lot of work (25 mins on, 5 mins off in 2 hour chunks with a 30m break between). Got a lot of work to do today but I started my latest short novella last night! I want to get it finished this weekend.
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You mention this name a lot. Are her tactics really good to follow?
Again, I am not self-publishing anything.
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Itās so frustrating.
It IS ewwy! These things should be based on merit, not popularity. I read Jennaās book years ago when she gave it away for free for a limited time, and omg the book reviewers on YouTube arenāt lying. ć½(ļ¾Šļ¾)ļ¾
All those writing gurus seem to write horrible books, but their writing advice sounds pretty solid to me. ĀÆ\_(ļ¢)_/ĀÆ
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Iām judging her solely by results, and based on that Iād say her methods totally work, at least for fantasy books. More than 6000 readers pre-ordered her book when they hadnāt seen even a single sentence of her writing. Most self-published writers canāt sell that many books over the full course of a bookās whole existence. So she must be doing something right as far as marketing. And somehow she held everyoneās attention for that one book over a span of four or five years, telling them nothing really about it except that it had a magic system based on the zodiac. I donāt know why people would go nuts over a magic system based on the zodiac, but whoever her reader tribe is, she certainly reached them. ĀÆ\_(ļ¢)_/ĀÆ
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I take there is no other way to get noticed without marketing, huh?
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Oooof, partly why I never touch anything made by influencers/content creators (aside from Noah Kaganās Million Dollar Weekend. Surface level stuff without a doubt, I didnāt learn anything from it AT ALL, but heās a nice guy and it was an enjoyable read, even if it wasnāt educational).
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