If You Want to Make It as a Writer, for God's Sakes, Be Weird(freddiedeboer.substack.com) |
If You Want to Make It as a Writer, for God's Sakes, Be Weird(freddiedeboer.substack.com) |
That said, definitely haven’t made any financial gains in the world of writing, and “optimizing” for weird, based on firsthand experience , doesn’t quite ring as sage advice
If you want to “make it as a writer,” and unless you’re kinda hardcore about it, it may be a better idea to start a podcast / real-time capture your journey as a writer (while writing.)
Printed text (books) requires work to access and usually doesn’t do a great job marketing itself / has “low-virality.”
Reading is work; watching / listening is easy, maybe even relaxing.
Beyond your average interview podcast, pursuing a career as a writer & sharing that work via podcast is a direction I personally haven’t yet seen explored at length
It sounds like he's talking about James Howard Kunstler.
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/the-raptures-of-hype...
reminds me exactly why I loved him... he expresses the worries I have, and suddenly I feel less alone in my worries.