4/ Anyway, this is terrible writing, and you should not be taken in by it. You should, however, read "A Reader's Manifesto", or, at the very least, read the shorter essay version online. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2001/07/a-readers-manifesto/302270/ … It will insulate you from the siren call of this sort of badness.
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15/ There is nothing merely gold PLATED about the manner in which I am a son of a bitch.https://twitter.com/JoshuaHiles/status/1308100967561334789 …
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16/ anyone who knows anything about KDP can just look at the sales rank of my books and turn that into dollars (that's what I do when TheBrometheus is bragging about his sales and I want to fact check him) https://twitter.com/TweetsBeach/status/1308103099685494785 …
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17/ my apologies! I hereby ...well, no, I don't actually retract #15 above, bc it's true ... but I disclaim any beef with
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18/ Fair enough! Let me replace it with "I have nothing to be insecure about, because people like my writing and it earns me money ... which isn't bad for a hobby I have on the SIDE, after my other hobbies like farming, which I do after my actual careerhttps://twitter.com/prettyXricky/status/1308103876009250816 …
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21/ I make about $2k / mo from my writing via KDP (note that this doesn't count audiobook sales, where I get paid quarterly, or foreign publication sales, where it's annual)pic.twitter.com/mpaez7QkIo
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22/ although some months I do a bit better, like in August, when I made about $100k https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tjic/escape-the-city-a-how-to-homesteading-guide/ …pic.twitter.com/7ic5NSpD56
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23/ so, like I said, it's not bad, for a hobby I do after the farmwork and my actual day job are done.
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24/ Yeah, I'm sure yours does.https://twitter.com/prettyXricky/status/1308104805219471360 …
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25/ I posted the sales figures because
@TweetsBeach asked for them, three distinct times, IIRC. The reason I haven't defended my style is that you haven't asked me to. And, frankly, I feel no need to. >>>https://twitter.com/prettyXricky/status/1308106673656074240 …Show this thread -
26/ My defense of my style is this: I have been reading fiction for over 40 years. I've read thousands of books, some of them great, some of them terrible. I have read dozens if not a hundred books about writing, about style, literary criticism, etc. I trust myself >>>
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27/ to know what makes fiction work, and when it fails. And then I wrote, re-wrote, and re-re-re-re-wrote until my output matched my own [ very ] high standards. As always, I trust myself far more than I trust anyone else.
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28/ Anyway,
@TweetsBeach , you asked for my sales figures, and I gave them. Any further critique on that score? You want to poast your own?Show this thread
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