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Same problem here, honestly. I see the story in full audio-visual detail, not as an abstract chain of words or semantic constructs. It's one of the reasons I don't like reading books with not enough visual descriptors and regularly-applied "pattern tags". That said, when I write, I try to...

The last contemporary story I remember reading was "Together We Will Go" by J. Michael Straczynski (of Babylon 5 fame). I seriously recommend it to anyone. No supernatural elements, no mystery, no escapism. Only drama and transcendental heartbreak. It's central theme is about suicide, so be...

All of them and yet none of them. I have tried faithfully each advice I have been given over the years, have incorporated the parts that work for me and discarded the parts that don't, slowly building my own methodology. Perhaps the only advice I have outright rejected is "Write what you know."...

Nah, spiritual fantasy isn't like cultivation novels at all. Cultivation novels are the result when you take myth and religion, and filter them through the lens of soap opera drama and pro wrestling. Spiritual fantasy is the exploration of the mystical, of delving into actual esoterical...

Fair enough. I'll also take this opportunity to withdraw. It's 1:30 am here, and I need to be at work tomorrow.

Well, I do beg to differ, seeing how nobody's finding mine. Or they keep awfully quiet about it. PS. And before you point out how this is wrong in the absolute sense, please bear in mind that <10 comments, a couple of reviews, and some X amount of "views" (what an arbitrarily opaque statistic)...

Sounds like "I need more info". A title cannot sell me anything these days. A title and a cover? Perhaps by a long shot. Title, cover, and a blurb/synopsis? Maybe. These days, I don't start reading without extensive prior research on the book in question, cause my backlog is already infinite...

If we are going to talk about stuff like Brandon Sanderson-levels of popularity vs. the 1000 true fans model, then I'm in the same boat as you. I would like to be a billionaire writer like JK Rowling, but I will be more than happy to have a thousand ppl throw me 5-10 bucks a month through...

The money part is simple: if you get attention, you get money. You wound't give money to a random stranger, right? Unless that's your personal paradigm in the first place. If there is no attention, nobody will give you money. If you don't go to KFC to eat (pay them a visit, aka "attention")...

Well, I'll try to explain it with a bullet-point list: Everyone can write, if they ever attended primary school. It's part of literacy. No argument here. Everyone can be an author. The moment you write anything, anything at all, you're the author of that piece of information. Whether is a...

Sadly, the OP seems to have retreated from the conversation. (At least today.) But I do hold the topic dear to my heart, hence why I persist "holding the candle", so to speak. Silence kills creative output faster than anything else, even if you do write what you like. I (and a few other...

The scene just before the climax of the story where Airo bares his soul before Veralla, confessing the source of his past trauma and black-hearted character, and Veralla asks Airo if he would love her the way he loved his past soulmate. Game, set, match. Then they go to kick the ass of the...

If any readers take interest at all in the first place. That's what the OP actually asks about. (If you read between the lines.)

Thank you for pre-clarifying your question. I will both answer your question and ask a counter question. Answer: If the person replying lacks desire to actually reply, why reply at all? I can speculate a few scenarios, but they all cast an unfavorable light on such an action, and the person...

Tact = timing + social awareness + "reading the room" + cultural context. And other factors to the equation. And yes, the internet is full of poor jokes. That much is obvious.

And my reply wasn't that scathing. And a good joke has taste. And tact. Poor ones don't.

I see. Tonal bypassing. The scourge of written communication. I ask for apology for my stiff-necked behavior in that case. As for the rest: If you consider the meme an appropriate response, then you and I have very different understandings how conversations work or what is considered proper...

First of all, you are not the person who posted that meme?... Second, going ballistic from such a simple verbal (figuratively) riposte makes me wonder how you've survived the interned so far. You need thicker skin to swim the digital oceans. Third, do you really think a meme was an appropriate...

Talk about shooing off the golden birdie when it lands on your shoulder. Most writers would've killed for such an opportunity. Career writing fiction right out of the gate! I did a similar mistake at 20, when I rejected what could have been the start of a political career. I was hired at the...