Is being a writer in the information age pointless?
what does the age and the channels of reception have to do with a great work of art
>>24120652What's different about the information age?
>>24120652No.
>>24120652>maintain a blog about city history for 10+ years>over 300 posts logged>each one extensively researched>rarely get more than 5k views a monthThe secret is to learn how to suffer
>>24120734five thousand people is like a small stadium
>>24120741That's Google results and it's unknown how much are those are bots and spammers. Plus that's per month, not daily.
>>24120734>maintain a personal blog>crap out a post about whatever I’m reading or thinking about >over 50 posts logged >between 16-100 people look at it a month>sometimes they even leave comments It’s a lot of fun!
Personal vanity is as good as any reason
>gave up writing commentthis one hurts, but not as bad as “thread 404'd right before posting comment.”
>>24120767on reddit it's>wrote long informative comment that absolutely decimates the objective trash that has a million upvotes, but upon checking with incognito mode, it never went through turns out they censor everything you do. i wouldnt be so butthurt if reddit wasn't basically the source of all knowledge for normies to reference now, built into google and the AIs of their phones. at least on 4chan i be seen
>>24120734>5k views a monththat's pretty good. i don't think pope or joyce had a much bigger audience in their time.
>>24120734one of the more annoying and intractable problems of the internet; its dynamics incentivize low-effort slop content production
>>24120652Yes. At this point your audience is the future AI God which will at best look upon your writing with pity.
>>24120866Nah, I already made the decision to oppose the formation of such an AI, so the basilisk has reserved a spot in virtual hell for me.
>>24120657There's too much information, most of it low-quality, all competing for your attention through greedy self-replication strategies, with no better alternative because even socialization has to be filtered through these standards.
>>24120734Remember the good old days when people were making tens of thousands in Google ad money for having a mildly successful blog or running a decently sized forum?
>>24120652No
>>24120762I haven't gotten many comments. Even the Facebook page for it where I repost the links barely sees much activity). The sadder thing is I have another website that has less activity and almost as much content.>>24120864SEO has fucked the Internet over and I shed no tears that AI has run the talentless leeches in that category out of business.
>>24121252Duck Duck GoAd NauseamFirefoxRemove YouTube SuggestionsRSS HomepageWhat you read, and watch, and hear, eventually becomes what you think. Don't let them control the pipeline.
>>24120652No but the general publishing climate right now is so laughable you might as well get your longform creative outlet with opium dreams if you don't have some sort of woke moralist selling point since publishers are all downstream of liberal arts.
John Barth said that when he started writing in the 50s and said he wanted to be a novelist, people said "what's the point? We have TV now." Now TV is on its way out and here we are still reading books.
>>24120652What is your goal for writing? This is the question that decides what you're going to write.>>24120734For example this post. If you want to be popular, first you need to find a topic that people actually care about
>>24121372>If you want to be popular, first you need to find a topic that people actually care aboutThis is bad advice because you it means pandering to the lowest common denominator, and even that doesn't guarantee success. Fantasy sells but even if you write better than the current fantasy author du jour (Brandon Sanderson) it doesn't mean your book will sell anything like it. Politics, too, even if you served two terms as a state congressman your book won't be flying off the shelves even in your district.Write what YOU want and then figure out how to bend it to a more mass market audience. You could probably sell more copies with some smut involving permanently horny women on leashes than your great novel idea, but is that really what you want or what the world needs?
>>24121425>Write what YOU want and then figure out how to bend it to a more mass market audience. You could probably sell more copies with some smut involving permanently horny women on leashes than your great novel idea, but is that really what you want or what the world needs?This poster doesn't know what it means to write to be popular, so he can be safely ignored
>>24121299>Now TV is on its way out and here we are still reading books.Not really, tv transformed into youtube and gayflix
>>24120774>make a post on reddit asking a question about a video game that should be easy to answer for people who have played the game yet i somehow couldnt find the answer with the help of google>one person answer and he was talking about the remake which doesnt work the same when i said in the post title i was talking about the original>said subreddit constantly says the original is the better gameturns out they all only played it once when they were kids and as someone who played both as an adult even playing the original first i can say they are full of shit and the flaws of the remake dont prevent it from being much better than the original,point is reddit is dogshit and i couldnt stand my friends anymore who look at me weird when i say i go on 4chan yet they go on reddit for everything ranging from tech problems to fucking porn.
>>24120652No.>>24120657Very little. The different ages just shift the burden onto different cogs in the machine, information age shifted it onto the office drone.
>>24121462There has never been a video game remake that is better than the original.
>>24121438TV, youtube, netflix and their ilk have always been with us, nothing new. >noooo we would be a society of genius scholars if it wasn't for <rentfree proper noun>
