Thread 24490935 - /lit/ [Archived: 832 hours ago]

Anonymous
6/23/2025, 11:36:26 PM No.24490935
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Let's say I was an author and I didn't care about money; That my writing style is new and necessary...
In the current time, where would I "publish" my works, so that some people, the littlest amount over zero, actually took their time and read the whole thing...

Most of -us- in life are invisible, we make no promises, we don't sell value, nothing to excite the greedy hearts, and so no one will take their times to explore our works. But I still would like to try somehow to get at least a few to pause a little and watch the slit...
How should I go about it, make my own site? How do I get people to do more than just glance?

Also don't worry English is not the language I write in, so this post is in no way a foretaste of what I actually write
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Anonymous
6/23/2025, 11:37:50 PM No.24490939
>>24490935 (OP)
You would publish them on your personal blog that nobody would read. 'Tis the sad truth. Maybe get some friends interested so that the number is like 3 and not 0.
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Anonymous
6/23/2025, 11:38:15 PM No.24490940
>I'm a genius!
>Recognize me!
Anonymous
6/23/2025, 11:45:25 PM No.24490967
>>24490939
3 sounds good to me, when it comes to actually read a book...
Nietzsche probably had less than that at a point
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 12:49:15 AM No.24491124
>>24490935 (OP)
How hard could it be to google "how to self-publish"?
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Anonymous
6/24/2025, 1:01:26 AM No.24491148
>>24491124
Dumbass googling suits your recycled stale rhetoric

why do you assume I did not do it? how can you leave so many weaknesses, angles of attacks in such a short post? At this point I certainly have no hope of you understanding the meaning of the double quotes around "publish"
How can you have so little esteem of yourself that you allow such weak thoughts to come out of your small noggin
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Anonymous
6/24/2025, 2:31:40 AM No.24491332
>>24490935 (OP)
>How should I go about it, make my own site?
yep, pretty much. a lot of recent literary figures got their start as bloggers (nick land, mark fisher, etc). i'm told there's lots of serialized "webnovels" too. not my cup of tea, but likely a good venue for you.

i'm not a fan of substack, but they're the most normie-friendly. if you can manage your own IT, set up a blog on wordpress or hugo instead.

if you want to make a bit of cash, you could do a "first chapter free" model where your first chapter is available to anyone and the rest of the book is either paywalled, downloadable as an ebook, or sold as a physical edition.

>How do I get people to do more than just glance?
endorsements from major figures in the communities you want to reach. do the podcast circuit. take out ads in front of relevant videos. fork out the money for a publicist.
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Anonymous
6/24/2025, 3:16:26 AM No.24491418
>>24491332
you gotta scream very loudly and very often if you want people to pay attention.

OP you sound like you should just make a wordpress site and publish on there, and put the link in your social bios and shit, and put new posts on your story etc.

I would focus on getting your family members and friends to pay attention. besides, their engagement will mean more to you than random faceless strangers
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Anonymous
6/24/2025, 8:43:10 AM No.24492015
>>24490939
This
Drop by >>>/g/ if you want help
Just make sure everything is also on your own computer and backed up normally
You do have backups, right?
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Anonymous
6/24/2025, 7:26:16 PM No.24492917
>>24491418
>>24492015

what if I made a neocities site
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Anonymous
6/24/2025, 7:35:54 PM No.24492942
>>24492917
do it
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 7:40:53 PM No.24492954
>>24491148
Well, just google "how to self-publish"
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 7:42:04 PM No.24492958
>>24492917
If you want your work to have any possibility of posterity, self-publish in both physical and ebook form and use "print-on-demand" or whatever its called. It's literally free.
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 10:07:30 PM No.24493450
>>24490935 (OP)
PANCAKE
ROTATE
Voluntary Fool
6/25/2025, 2:42:17 AM No.24494100
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91gT68xeDMM