[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