Snotty Writers

"Leonid Pasternak - The Passion of creation" by Leonid Pasternak - http://www.art-in-exile.com/forums/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=14639. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Oh woe is me! The guy in that painting reminds me of the dopes I've come across in the world of internet writing. In one case, a guy wrote a post that read like recovery garbage and I instigated an argument by trolling on the comment board. Yeah, that's my fault and I'll take the hit. His wife responded saying that he was a prestigious writer and highly reputable and I had not right to speak of him that way. Then he came at me with the same crap, because my comment said that I would have thought what he wrote was plagiarized but that I couldn't find evidence to prove it. But that's what pissed him off and when I tried to correct him, he came at me again saying that I was trying to discredit him as a writer. To which I said, in front of what audience? The Bubblews audience? He ended up deleting all of the comments so I can't recover those for this post. But I want to celebrate my one year anniversary of a post that touches upon the very subject of snotty-asshole-holier-than-thou writers out there, a post that's a little more mature with the point than my trolling reveals. (Bubblews)

#Bubblews Can't Be Bothered.

I woke up this morning thinking about how I'm going to tackle today's writing activities. It's part of my daily routine along with questioning whether Bubblews is worth writing on anymore or not. I'm leaning more towards not since I haven't seen any changes in the amount of earnings from any of my posts. 

In actuality I really don't see anything because there's no way to check the analytics on the site for views or anything. We're pretty much writing blind, which is a break big change from where it used to be. It might be something they'll put up in the future but that's doubtful.

It's doubtful because there's no indication, like before, that they're at least moving through a phase toward improvement for the users of their service. Basically, they're simply improving things for themselves, which they're free to do as it's their company after all. But they've already erased pending redemption amounts along with the disputes to basically start over. 

The admins posted about this and stated that they did it because there had been too much fraudulent activity. The fact is that they couldn't be bothered to investigate legitimate claims versus illegitimate ones and give out what was owed, which is where the core of the problem is. It's part of our nature to let go of things when we can't hold onto them anymore. Did we really expect them to act any differently?

Those who were writing on the site bought it for a while though because that's how they were pitching themselves to social media, to people who were writing on their services. Now, there's no hint of that with their new approach to their business model. They've become just like any other content creation platform, only just a bit worse.

As a content creation platform, they were at a good point back before late 2014 when they extended the time it would take to get paid up to two months. On top of that, they placed limits to redeem once a month. Again, this is putting them on the same level as other services which pay out monthly. Problem is that at this point, the users of the site have to do more hurdles than before to make it worth while. 

Have cholera and do a handstand at the same time

image "bucketsopens" is a morgueFile free photo By taliesin, which is commonly seen where there cholera epidemics. Seemed appropriate for the inappropriate title we used for whatever the hell we're talking about.

As a internet writer, I have to find some way to explain what I do a little better than I already do.

That means I have to talk shit about the difficulty of doing this thing, and let out my frustration through blogging.

Internet writers use a variety of services to generate income.

Some revenue-sharing services are better than others and just recently a very popular service called &bubblews upgraded their entire site with a new layout and options.

They've already been talking about this for months and the update happened this week.

This has caused some difficulty for some users, which makes this market harder to manage in the traditional sense.

Like a career.

It just means that I have to work harder and take this thing seriously.

If you're too timid for this stuff, you won't be able to "hang".

What does any of this have to do with the title?

Just my own way of dealing with two difficulties at the same time.

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The internet writer's Hell.

Finally, I got a wild hair up my ass and started kicking out text today.

Right on and good for me!

The only want to do it is to network everything, I don't give two fucks what, just as long as they're connected.

As I've said before on my previous post about niche blogging, I've settled into accepting my approach for internet writing with consistency.

I did get a little spooked earlier though with the realization that I could be pinned down to write just for the internet and never be able to write anything else.

Before I elaborate on that, I want to say that I'm writing on the internet to get that posh writing job at the office or something.

What I mean is that I have other interests I need to be involved with and need to schedule that time, I just don't see that happening.

I sense that there's an opportunity but can't get out from under that fear.

I've smacked myself back into reality to admit that it's too early for me to tell, but it's one of the many of the millions of fears low-rent writers have.

Now that we've Quashed the shit out of that shit, it's time to move on. 

The freelancer's drag

It's like a Scott Joplin piece, the freelancer's drag.*
It's actually more like the drag a freelancer has when they start slacking off.
That's been happening more lately.
But when you're low, there's no way to go but up.
It's perhaps because I'm forcing myself to deal with the fact that I might be a bit overwhelmed.
When this happened in traditional jobs, I likely would freak out because I had to do it, or it was my ass.
Toward the end of my workforce stretch, I stopped giving a shit and so I'm hooked on taking the hit.
I have my process in that I answer to no one and I can't beat myself up over it.
Feels good.

*I meant rag but then, I don't expect that anyone reading this is old enough to know what that is much less Scott Joplin.

Fuck this niche blog bullshit

I did a little better yesterday with my new writing plan, which is basically me writing everything now, posting, fixing and then sharing later.

I have to do that now while I get used to this new process.

I do want to say to at least relate to other writers that I never really have a great idea as to how to write all this stuff, meaning:

Do I have to research something thoroughly and plan out what I'm going to write?

Because everything I write, each piece is for a specific reason, each one and that's the problem.

I kind of have an idea of what it's going to be but if I try to make it exactly what I want it to be and don't let up before I post it, than I will be ignoring many great ideas in the process.

As I was in the shower yesterday, I had to come to accept that I just need to write about anything and everything that's on my mind.

Imagine what a writer does, or what I think they should do everyday; to write.

What does it matter if it's exactly what you want it to be?

For instance, I want(ed) my blog to be kind of a niche thing, but I don't always have the something to write about that will fit that niche, so fuck it.

I just need to do it and sort it all out later.

What a re-fucking-lief!