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S.C. Ferguson's avatar

Damn, dude. Sounds like a bruising learning experience. Thank you for sharing. I can relate to the lurking and desperate self-promotion aspects. In a sense, I started a Substack for cynical reasons -- to drum up an audience, via drips and drops of blog-level content, for a planned story collection (hopefully published by a decent indie press, but we’ll see). There’s something gross about promoting oneself, but you’re right: as writers, we are fighting gravity. Maybe someday I’ll grow wings. : P

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Salty K. Pickles's avatar

I admire both your hustle on /lit/ and your retrospective honesty in this post. Keep at it.

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