neponeko

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by neponeko 2mo ago
I know probably three dozen authors. $500k every two years seems great for a job that so many people romanticize, but the money goes fast. The writing is the easy part. Self promotion becomes a full-time job, and you do the writing in your
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by neponeko 2mo ago
That’s the problem. Literary culture requires nucleation—for shared discussion and to finance projects. But the real talent differences are not steep enough to justify it. I I said my offline identity there is a chance you would recognize m
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by neponeko 2mo ago
You should meet literary agents. An LLM is not as good as a skilled human who has already committed to giving your work a fair read. It is far superior to the quality of read you will ever get from a literary agent unless your parents are M
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by neponeko 2mo ago
What cronyism buys you is restarts. Having an enforcer can get you more than the 20 pages. You’ll be read to the end by every judge, and you may not get the award (these are competitive, and even most people with good enforcers aren’t great
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by neponeko 3mo ago
Rich people are panicking because they’ve seen a capital-poor country win a war with cheap drones and want to lock down as many technologies as they can, lest the ruled realize they can actually do something about their rulers.
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by neponeko 3mo ago
Right, and half the time they can’t tell what could sell because their thinking is so provincial and rigid.
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by neponeko 3mo ago
Publishing houses will screen fiction for well-written and interesting fiction. Why would they start now?
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by neponeko 3mo ago
At every step, a human had the opportunity to say "no, this is bad". And the fact that they didn't is a vote of quality and reputation. Romantic image. Doesn’t hold. Traditional publishing has pushed out lots of poorly edit