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Old 09-11-2009, 03:15 AM   #8
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My advice (even though I think the OP is actually a spammer) is forget about marketing and visibility. Forget about 'making it' or 'making money'. Just write, write, write. Enjoy your writing and let that be the reward. If you can pick up some readers along the way, then that's a bonus, but beyond a few people actually reading and maybe a few of those enjoying the work, this writing game is a dead parrot. For all the effort and the dreams and the millions of words we put in, we'd get as much back from fashioning macramé owls for a county fair (probably more relaxing too). None of us are going to make a living doing this writing lark, especially not those who write 'out-of-genre'. There's maybe a five year hole to make some money in the trad publishing industry before it eats itself whole, and even then you'll have to write a best-seller or two (just invent something implausible, write short chapters and remember to check your brain at the door.)

So, relax. Cast the dreams of publication and living the high-life of an author aside. The world just tilted on its axis and nothing is as it was. Write, write, write. But don't expect to be paid, paid, paid or even read, read, read.
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