I came up with a great idea for my own litrpg story yesterday. I'm pretty excited about it, to be honest. And I found a good way to package the premise inside the sci fi genre so that it could be a bit more accessible. The other bonus is that the progression of the story is pretty open ended. I could continue to write on it and serialize it until I get tired of it.
I've been considering youtube as a possible delivery mechanism for my stories, but now that I've actually browsed stories on youtube, I'm not totally sure when I can get there. The problem is the story length. I was thinking I'd generate some shorter works, around 50,000 words at the most. This would translate into about five hours of audio. I think that's plenty of words for the average bear. But so many people just put these damn things on in the background while they dip around on other shit, that the youtube search algorithm favors very long videos instead. I mean incredibly long. Most of the ones I found were something like 60 hours long. Basically the equivalent of six full length books or 600,000 words of narration. Who is ever going to listen to all that? Maybe youtube has a thing that lets you save your spot? I don't know.
The other thing I noticed is that the actually writing content is absolute shite. Like really bad. Full to the gills on filler, thin on narrative, and they employ a plot mechanism that's dry and predictable. I think this is another case that these aren't stories, but instead they're just fucking noise. Noise noise noise. Blah blah blah. Something to fill the void and nothing more.
Regardless, it's going to take me a decade to write out 600,000 words. And I'm sure by then the internet will have moved on to stories about donkeys eating donuts on the moon while playing ukuleles. Your standard Hawaiian musical about baked goods with humanized quadrupeds genre story. Of course. But either way, I'm still going to serialize on Royal Road and eventually some other platforms. Doing my own author website might be a thing, but I'm not sure how discoverable that would make my work. If you can consider this blog a website, then discoverability is zero.
The upside of writing an adventure serial is that I don't have to worry so much about creating an outline. I have a rough outline in my head that I can fill in as the story goes just like I was doing with my Dungeon Crawler Carl fanfic. Once I've done some mental planning for the new one, I'll just start writing.
You know, for all the work I'm doing to be discoverable, accessible, and in touch with an audience, I bet that I don't make a single fucking dime on this venture. I bet that I actually lose money and still no one reads my work. I'm not being negative or fatalistic, just trying to gauge my expectations. I have always been prone to daydreaming and I can't help it but to dream and hope about success. Finally having my life's focus to be creativity instead of this dreary daily grind. Well, I don't need to have money to make that dream come true. So I'm going to do it anyway. I'd rather have hundreds of self published novels that no one ever reads then make my whole focus on gaining money and advancing a career.
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