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Write it up Alex. I'll clap it.Look, this time it's writing drivel:
https://medium.com/@debzcooper/dear-w...
Well done Ted. I hope to build up the courage/money to look at that in the future.
Just write drivel, it works for me. Punctuated drivel. I'm working on one now that contains nothing of interest to anyone. It's well punctuated though.
It's better than nothing, Erica. Besides, family is more important.
Thank you everyone. Well done Dale. I'm still not confident enough to join a thing and offer them articles. The hardest bit is trying to find 2-3 things to write about each week.
Medium is sending me $34.06 this month. That's the most I've had so far. Thanks everyone who took the time to clap and interact with my posts.
And I saw it when you shared it. I was suitably outraged with a ‘raised middle finger and an oh FFS what chance do I stand’ attitude. Then I incorporated it into a medium rant and earnt a couple of quid from it.
Yes and both of mine too. It honestly wouldn’t have occurred to be to do it. By then I haven’t been exclusive to Amazon for over a year. Even if it was ok, the example I read about was an author actively telling readers to click on every page and let it load, but hey, there’s no need to read it, the author just wants the money from the extra page reads. Smacks of dishonesty to me. I don’t know how rife the problem is. I didn’t even know there was a problem until about two weeks ago. I’m so naive.
You publish a 200 page book. But in the back you add 1000 pages of bonus stuff or another book or a collection. You put it in Kindle Unlimited and instruct all your readers to read to the end of the 1200 pages so you get higher page reads than your 200 page book.
It does.
I’m certainly getting there.
Exactly. Don’t like it? Have a refund!
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.- George Santayana.Things happened. And whereas it would be great if we could go back and stop some of those things from happening-we can't. The best we can do is learn from the mistakes the human race made. Erasing history won't help that. Writing books that sanitise history won't help that. I don't believe in sugar coating history to make it more palatable. If a work of fiction is set in the past and is supposed to represent the realities of that past-I would prefer to see historical accuracy over sanitisation. I don't care if it makes people uncomfortable if that was the truth.
As a cop-out, my fear of offending people is one of the reasons why I write pseudo real-life situations in unreal worlds and universes. I would hate to write something set in the past because of the fear of getting it wrong. And by getting it wrong, I mean not being historically accurate.
In my view it is not insensitive to write something that says 'in this time the world was like this. This was their reality.' That's just being historically accurate. In my mind, depicting anything other than historical accuracy should be classed as fantasy.
Well done Erica.
Trying.
I absolutely agree with you Ted. I wish the public did.
Clapped
Drives me nuts. Anyway, I planned to do some promo. I have done some promo. Two paid for ones, one which may not be accepted. Also, so far 3 free not guaranteed promos. That is enough for now. My eye is playing up. And I think I already used an alternative email address for one of them by mistake. (Rolls tired eyes.)
