[ SECRET POST #3588 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3588 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Or maybe your whole operation kind of sucked

[kallanda_lee]

Oh, ffs - even if it's shitty erotica. It's a dollar.

Do you know how much boring stuff I've read for friends? Screenplays for webseries that never got made,two-page literary portraits of their father with daddy issues from front to back, "brilliant" magical realism stories that made no actual sense.

Look, I feel like if you're among writers (and I often am), it's sort of part of what you do in support (and, constructive criticism if wanted).


No, of course no-one's OBLIGATED, especially if it's money, but it seems like a small thing for a friend.

Re: Or maybe your whole operation kind of sucked

[(Anonymous)]

Not if you're poor as fuck. That $1 can sometimes mean I don't eat in bad months, and with Thanksgiving coming up, I'm saving the fuck out of money.

Re: Or maybe your whole operation kind of sucked

[kallanda_lee]

This is not the case for most people, though. I'm below the poverty-line income wise, and I could still afford that. If I had a friend who I knew I was worse off than me, I certainly would not hold it against them, but I have friends that I know splurge 50 euro's on a dinner out...so yeah, those people are out there, too.

And of course it's still not an obligation, but it seems pretty shitty not to.

I've always been around a lot of artistic people (my mom's family are musicians) and it's basically always been a thing that you do try to go to a concert/book reading/play every now and then.


Especially if you did do things like buy birthday presents, or go to their baby showers, or whatever in the past.

For the majority of people in first-world countries, a dollar is more symbolic than anything else.

Re: Or maybe your whole operation kind of sucked

[(Anonymous)]

But I bet that being poor as fuck means you don't go around telling people you're going to buy their work, right? Because you know that you can't afford it, and there's a good chance you won't be able to and you don't want to disappoint a friend, right?

Re: Or maybe your whole operation kind of sucked

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not going to fake interest in something I don't care about because I don't want my friends faking interest in something for my sake. OP's friends may very well have been interested in reading OP's novel until OP published it and they realized it wasn't their jam.

Re: Or maybe your whole operation kind of sucked

[kallanda_lee]

It's not about faking interest. I'd find it hard to believe they had no idea what it was about if they were supportive of OP writing the damn thing.

Also, with books you can't really know unless you read them (unless it's like a erotica thing with a fetish you don't care about).

Re: Or maybe your whole operation kind of sucked

[(Anonymous)]

Also, with books you can't really know unless you read them (unless it's like a erotica thing with a fetish you don't care about).

eh, i'd disagree with that. personally, there are some genres i'm just not into - for example, dystopian stuff just isn't my thing. i've tried to read multiple books involving those themes and they just don't do it for me, no matter how interesting the overall plot or characters are. i don't care how you try to sell it to me, i'm not going to read it because i know it's not something i like.