I keep writing incredibly long essays looking at aspects of the shift in ideas in the academic Left & its knock on effects but too few words
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Replying to @HPluckrose
To do this justice, I'd need to write a book that looked like this but I'm not sure many people would commit to a book on the topic.pic.twitter.com/RrCUjt5XBa
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Maybe you could crowd source your book so you'd have an income while you wrote it.
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Replying to @HenstockStephen
I'm very fortunate to not have to worry about this but would be heartbroken if I spent a year writing something a dozen people read!
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[1/5] Perhaps go about it as if you DID have to worry? Only write the book if a publisher gives you an advance? Or if you hit a certain
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[2/5] crowd-funding goal? If no such work already exists (and I admit I've never sought it out) then my instinct is to pay for it to be
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[3/5] created BUT only if I thought it would become sufficiently influential. So if the publishers say 'no', I hereby pledge UP TO £20 to a
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[4/5] crowd-funding campaign. But I think I'd prefer to be one of 10000 people paying £3 each than one of 1500 people paying £20 each. Not
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[5/5] because I'm cheap but because my aim is that such a work should do some good, and the wider audience makes that more likely.
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Thanks, Peter! I'll give it some thought.
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