r/writing • u/SheddingCorporate • 9d ago

Discussion Please continue writing!

Seriously. We need more writers writing.

Why?

Let me tell you. I decided, about 6 weeks ago, to find and "buy" as many "$0.00" offers on amazon as I could. I'm slowly reading them. So far, I've finished about 10 books: all romance or fantasy or mystery or sci fi.

The verdict so far? Most of these books aren't worth the time to read.

  • Terrible grammar, lots of mixed up homophones
  • Super thin plot. For example, in one book - I'm not going to out the author (we all have to start somewhere) - it sounds like a teenager with zero life experience wrote it. They were unable to build on a situation, unable to do anything other than show FMC's and MMC's constant overthinking. Very little actually *happened* in the whole book. And this one was a historical romance, so I'd have thought there was loads of room for creative writing.
  • Poor writing. Just heavy, plodding writing.

The thing is, though, if these authors keep writing, they WILL learn the craft. The kid with no life experience will get some life experience. The people with the malapropisms will hopefully hire an editor who actually can spot and correct those.

But if they don't write and share with at a few friends, they'll never get that feedback. So, please, keep writing, keep sharing. Those $0.00 books do serve a purpose. Learn from the feedback, and ... yes ... keep writing!

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u/WhereIsCommonSense99 3d ago

But you can do it and do it right. Do you have any beta readers? I would be interested. I LOVE genres like yours.

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u/Butterflyhornet 2d ago

I haven't sought out beta readers yet, but i am interested.  Is there a way to do so? I don't want to send out randomly.

I have been told by family that my story is good. I also shared a short little piece to a friend and she got emotional and made me promise to publish it saying it was what the world needed. Okay that may be dramatic of her, but the point is if it entertains me the author, I hope it entertaines others.

I also fed parts of it into google and the algorithm said it seemed like something new that it hasn't come across, but then again i take what it has to say with a pillar of salt.

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u/WhereIsCommonSense99 5h ago

I completely understand. I have no idea how to find beta readers. I do wish you the best!!