/lit/ - Literature

>>19450056
It's not suffering if I'm doing things like writing and enjoying myself.

There are a lot of people in 2021 who have no mental challenges and they're not exactly happy or fulfilled people. I feel pretty fulfilled writing and, despite the challenges, it has some very bright moments.

Last night I went for a stroll after dark, just to contemplate how to finish the YouTube video I've been working on. I heard some wind chimes from a house nearby and it was the first serendipitous moment I've had in awhile. Put a smile on my face.

I cherish your "seek help" posts because it helps motivate me to continue the battle. Seems like 6+ months later I'm still at it, and you're still trying to tear me down. It also shows the other anons that writers on here cannot be bullied into quitting.

>>19365362
If your book is so good why are you worried about a couple bad ratings? If a book sinks or swims because it has a couple bad ratings, it goes to show how gamed and how bullshit Amazon actually is. Like, think about it, if books live or die based on rankings, then why would an author focus on a good story and good plot when you could hire Filipinos to write schlock erotica and romance and instead focus your efforts on building a network of 100+ accounts to rate books with and develop networks to rank up your books? That would be MUCH more profitable than actually putting effort into writing really good books.

I would certainly never give a spammy 1-star rating to people just because I dislike them.
Happened to my 1st book:

https://www.amazon.ca/City-Singles-Jason-Bryan/dp/0991825705

Amazon is a pretty gross company, no way would I use them again. Literal ground-zero for globohomo and publishing on their platform is just supporting more globohomo and more death of local business. There has been a ton written on the spammy 5-star rank farms that others have built...

https://www.thesun.co.uk/money/8268240/fake-five-star-review-farms-are-flooding-amazon-with-positive-comments-says-which/

The entire business model is so fake and so toxic, I can see how you'd love it once you get to a decent income per month, but the entire model almost seems to demand that you play games to rank up your shit.

>>19315502
I took this one photo and posted it in a buy / sell forum on Facebook
>$80 in sales and tipped with a big bag of weed yesterday
>bought a whetstone to sharpen my chopper blade to get straighter edges
>tweaking printer settings to reduce smudging to little specks

If people listen to this guy, they're not going to create. You have to finish a product and shill it, to do that, you need to first learn to live as an artist and survive in the creative state