Wonderful summation and plenty to think about. The benefits of posting articles and short stories, even if it’s only for feedback or reccomendations, is worthwhile. And given that post visibility fades quite quickly you could produce things almost as a work in progress. I’m not sure there is a living to be made writing on SN (yet) but any creative working toward accelerated fortune & glory should probably look elsewhere…. low time preference and proof-of-work around here.
Very good points that I forgot to mention. There is nothing preventing anyone from posting material here from their substack to gain visibility. I also forgot to mention you can publicize those articles with a pinned post (how the hell did I forget that?)
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Well, you could write a post tomorrow as ‘Stacker News for Writers Part 2: Stack Harder!’ (All sequels need their own title)
‘Stacker News for Writers: Creatives Stack Too’ perhaps
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Sequals are big now. Maybe a franchise? The Return Of The Killer_________
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Red fuzzy dog with legs… I am now misremembering a very young George Clooney watching cowboys getting beaten up by ninjas with Colonel Gaadafi rolling around on the floor….
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