There is no humiliation ritual worse than advertising your own writing.
Why would it be humiliating? YOu live in a world oversaturated with corporate stories and corpo controlling the internet and media. And while I say that, it was the same in the past as well. Most of the great authors had to work hard to get any recognition, and most of them did not get it in life because the mainstream stuff was still controlled by the rich and powerful then as well. If anything it is mark of putting your soul into the story.
>>24953232Maybe not a humiliation ritual but it certainly is uncomfortably self important to judge that other people should read your thoughts about whatever, especially if you're writing something that isn't bound by rigor and discipline (i.e. most fiction, essays, memoirs..etc). You either accept the fact that you're delusionally egotistical or you fold.
>>24953308there is a third option: you self-publish
>>24953232>humiliation ritualTotally meaningless term these days. People just use it to mean anything that makes them feel slightly uncomfortable and self-conscious. Sharing your writing is humiliating? Why might that be?
>>24953272begging for attention is humiliating. soliciting is always whorish behavior. especially when you have to put on a persona to catch the eye of desensitized mass consumersnone of the great authors had to promote themselves in the cultural climate that writers have to today
>>24953232As someone who self-published his book earlier this year, it's tough man. Marketing really takes an entirely different skill set than writing does and is just a nightmare for introverts since you've really got to put yourself out there. Makes me feel like a beggar. And buying ads through Amazon or wherever you're selling it isn't really worth it until you've got multiple books under your belt.
>>24953367>none of the great authors had to promote themselves in the cultural climate that writers have to todayThey did, except instead of the internet, it was done at parties, in newspapers, or on the radio. But it was the same thing in practise.
get 5 illuminated manuscripts and advertise those on social media with links to where they can buy an ebook. there, now advertising feels like doing an art again.
>>24953375different cultural climatethey had to kowtow to the intelligentsia, publishers, guilds, and in-groups of the time. not the modern consumer cattle that watch booktoks and treat self-help books like doctrine
>>24953232The artist vs. the salesman.Usually polar opposites
>>24953351Self-publishing requires more advertising than traditional, though?
>>24953232don't be ashamed of the things you make :) first step
>>24953382Your average member of intelligentsia, let's speak in British climate, was some average urban aristocrat with middling income and liberal leanings, and shaping his opinions based on what was currently popular. It was literally the same thing right now.
>>24953232you know how the chinese would eat each other's babies? you could promote someone else's writing and he could promote yours
Would you like to read my self published book?
>>24953435there's similarities but they're surface level at bestthere is no parallel people to the modern consumer because consumer culture presides on the modern circumstances of modern technology, production outputs, globalization, and quality of life
>>24953449It is literally a parallel, every issues you mentioned started with the 19th century society.
>>24953457you cannot be equivocating the printing press and the internet or the colonial empires with the globalhomo monoculture of todaynetworking by joining guilds and organizing anthologies in the 1800s is not the same as acting like a show host on tiktok and youtube
>>24953232Then don't spend your time advertising it? Just put up a pinned tweet or something and go write the next work. I don't actively advertise my writing, I just mention it when asked or if it's relevant, and l have it listed for people to check out/buy. No humiliation involved. In fact, it looks like someone bought another copy today, hope whoever it was enjoys it!
>>24953272And corporate shills who dogpile independents for some reason. Yes it draws some attention but most of it isn't good. At best you are quickly ignored and can get to work on your next thing after picking throught the litter for genuine feedback. At worst you become a lolcow and kill yourself?
>>24953232No there are. It's called job interviews
