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by malloreon 1994 days ago
I have a side project that didn't make money, then did, and now effectively does not.

I write novels: I've published 10 so far. I didn't make any money for a while, but all in all I've sold about 80,000 copies. I haven't published anything new since 2018 and my sales have since dried up completely.

Fiction is a product market fit game first: if you don't write what people want to read, they won't read it. After that, it is a quantity game. New books come out every day, if you don't keep releasing more stories, people will forget you.

getting back to writing is one of my 2021 goals.