[edent]

I've just completed my first #NaNoWriMo.

I decided to do it as a series of short sci-fi stories. You can read them at https://shkspr.mobi/blog/TalesOfTheAlgorithm

It was fascinating to me how much like programming it was. So much planning, lots of time trying to figure out what isn't working, and a bunch of spelling bugs!

Well worth attempting this if you have the time to exercise your creative muscles.

Anyway, if you have any feedback on my weird stories, I'd love to hear it.

[karmakurtisaani]

Did anyone read then? My experience in writing things online is that barely anyone reads them and even fewer comment on them.

I might just suck at it, but if didn't someone would probably pay me to do it.

[edent]

I've had a bunch of my blog's readers and Mastodon friends leave comments on them.

The stories aren't as popular as my normal blogging - but I was expecting that.

Looking at my logs, I've had a few hundred people read them, which is lovely.

And, frankly, it doesn't matter if I suck or you suck. The joy of creation is its own payment.

[vidarh]

The average published novel hardly sells (couple of hundred copies on average), so if you write for the sake of a big audience, novels are not the thing to write - in that case aim for articles in a well read paper or magazine.

Selling even reasonably well takes a mix of persistency (building an audience over multiple works), talent, hard work promoting it yourself, and luck.

[boznz]

So true. I'm still learning the hard part about writing is not the writing, it is getting someone to read it. I documented it here => https://rodyne.com/?page_id=1252