Evenjos

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by Evenjos 7mo ago
Yeah. As a sci-fi author, I have strong opinions about this. Made an authortube video on the topic: https://youtu.be/THVpdcgTYrQ But tl;dr: Gatekeepers in big/mainstream publishing have outsourced their slush-piles to
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by Evenjos 1y ago
The who cares era is just a symptom of the unaccountability machinery of our era. It's hard to care or be passionate when you are certain that anything you produce which is worthwhile or original will be crushed, lost in the ocean of s
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by Evenjos 2y ago
...Or just ignore AI and use your human creativity to write an amazing story. Something that is NOT a stale echo of another story. Something that adds to a global conversation/debate or examines a concept/premise a fresh new light
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by Evenjos 3y ago
I have a 6 book contract with Podium, my debut was in the top 100 books of 2023 by Kirkus, and I am nowhere near quitting my day job. I've paid attention to the publishing industry for years. Like all of the arts, it's oversaturat
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by Evenjos 3y ago
I love rational fiction. Yes to Methods of Rationality, Mother of Learning, and also Paranoid Mage and a few others, including Majority by Abby Goldsmith.
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by Evenjos 4y ago
Yes.
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by Evenjos 4y ago
Ha ha, that was pretty good.
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by Evenjos 4y ago
100%. I see a lot of originality in web serials and fiction by indie authors. I've more or less stopped reading books that were curated by the Big Five publishing houses.
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by Evenjos 4y ago
The cons of thinking in public: - Everyone judges you. - Everyone can snap to a potentially wrong assumption about you or your motives. - The conversation can shift to a meta discussion about you as a person, or some other factor, instea
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by Evenjos 4y ago
Hahaha! This one does!
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by Evenjos 4y ago
Codex https://forums.codexwriters.com/ is very actively moderated. There are interesting quality discussions there.
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by Evenjos 4y ago
There is Codex. https://forums.codexwriters.com/ It's for SFF writers, and it skews towards trad pub. There are (easy to meet) membership requirements: You need to have earned some money as an author, or have been publ
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by Evenjos 4y ago
The indie author gold rush was basically 2012 through now. It's still in full swing. But much like the California Gold Rush, it's beyond a saturation point. There are all kinds of sharks in the water, selling seminars and promisin
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by Evenjos 4y ago
Don't listen to idiots. But do listen to the people who sincerely tried and failed. Few people want to talk about failure. But I've been watching the publishing industry for a long time, and it's not as simple as pressing the
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by Evenjos 4y ago
Major studios are terrified of taking a risk on an unknown IP. That's why they keep snatching up IPs with established audiences. I can't wait until that attitude changes. There are plenty of small, unknown authors who wrote excell
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by Evenjos 4y ago
I'm in a community like this, which is also very heavily moderated. It still has toxic elements because the people who run the platform think a certain way.
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by Evenjos 4y ago
The incentives in healthcare aren't prioritizing healthcare. It's a systemwide problem.
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by Evenjos 5y ago
I'm active in many writing communities. There is a culture, among writers, to "Never respond to reviews." Those who dare break that taboo are asking for trouble, in the form of twitter mobs and online bullying. Writing is a c
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by Evenjos 6y ago
I'm in the writing industry, and I definitely see this with young writers. He's absolutely correct.
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by Evenjos 6y ago
Did scientists ever figure out how sauropods ate enough to support their mass, with their tiny mouths?
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by Evenjos 6y ago
100%. This is the case in online serials, and books, as well. There is also an emotional investment factor that comes with long serials, as opposed to single seasons. The more time you put into something--even just in terms of watching it,
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by Evenjos 6y ago
Exactly. What happened in the 1990s was a major consolidation of all retailers, including bookstores. This created limited shelf space, which, in turn, put pressure on publishers to consolidate their authors into a few mega best-sellers, wh
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by Evenjos 6y ago
Lulu is ancient, and has been outcompeted by Amazon and other platforms. Wattpad has something like 65 million readers. > If the current companies are screwing up so badly, who are the innovators that will go around those mistakes and ou
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by Evenjos 6y ago
It's not impossible. The problem is a lack of incentives. Amazon offers 70% royalties to indie authors. YouTube offers peanuts to indie film makers. Netflix offers nothing. Film-making is more expensive than novel writing, and there is
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by Evenjos 6y ago
This is one of those overly simplistic views that doesn't take the underlying laws and incentives into account. Sure, it's bean counters. So then go a step further, and ask yourself: why are the bean counters afraid to take risks
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by Evenjos 6y ago
This is quite incredible. I'm a 3D artist with a ton of experience in 3dsmax, and I am really impressed by this.
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by Evenjos 10y ago
This is a timely read for me. I just finished reading "Disrupted," by Dan Lyons, about corruption in the digital marketing industry.
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by Evenjos 10y ago
I like common sense solutions. Unfortunately, most people don't.
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by Evenjos 10y ago
Working at various tech companies, I've observed a major shift towards the fine art of bullshit. Employees constantly have to prove their worth and put a fresh spin on how valuable they are to the company. Talent and merit and work eth
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by Evenjos 10y ago
There's some research that the creation of paper bags, and those more permanent plastic bags, is just as harmful to the environment as plastic disposable bags. https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4460

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