Read & Drop Your Link and I’ll Respond — Let Me Tell You How Shallow and Desperate This Makes You Look
By: Greg Prince
Tags: Social Media, Humor, Publishing, Writing, Satire

Writing and Publishing Social Media

Read & Drop Your Link and I’ll Respond — Let Me Tell You How Shallow and Desperate This Makes You Look

Tactics story makers can do without.

You’ve found your way to publishing. Hooray! You’ve gleaned information repeated 10,000 times before and regurgitate the material for new eyes to feast upon. You exclaim, “I’m a writer. Copy my success! Look at all my fantastic content.” What foolish game have you wasted my time with?

Let’s be proud of the content we publish. While there’s nothing new under the sun, we have the ability to create without only rewriting sentences. Titles that copy previous ideas and titles that substitute synonyms and chop phrases for poorly written substitutions are sickening.

How many stories must we have informing us of the 7 great things Buddha instructed to allow us superpowers? Perhaps we should have the same story but combine the points to 3 1/2 great things, or I could vomit all over your words.

Change the topic to Seneca’s wisdom or inform us again of the same statements the Dalai Lama instructed for the millionth time. Please lather on more and more of the same old, same ole’. Whatever you do, don’t worry about one original idea coming out of your own thinking cap.

If you’ve read this far, you might have grimaced or even laughed before you thought, “This guy’s on a rant.” And, you’d be correct.

And, I’m enjoying the hell out of lambasting all the offenders who publish the kind of dreck the subject matter above defines.

But, let’s get to the meat—the heart of the title. You asked for my story link in return for reading my article. Well, that seems reasonable. Except your story is not interesting to me at all. You’ve copied thousands of other writers, and why can’t my story stand on its own merits? Why can’t your story do the same?

Why do you have to ask? What’s the point of writing a story you need to beg to be read? The writer who won’t read another’s story unless the other reads theirs is a selfish, self-centered, imp(if this offends you — good). The writer waiting on charity reading to justify their writing should not be writing.

The writer waiting on charity reading in order to justify there writing should not be writing.

Perhaps my bias concerning this subject is derived from Facebook writer’s groups annoying the hell out of me. No, that’s exactly where it comes from. I manage a Facebook writer’s group, and asking for links there is not allowed or tolerated. You can be link-soliciting free by joining us at Medium Magic.

My rant is my rant. Authors making a bundle like Sinem Günel and Tim Denning are experts in repackaging uplifting information we can’t resist. They’re probably on the front page of your feed right now. But, I prefer original content swaying into the area of you may never seen this kind of material before.

Stories from Kyrie Gray, Ryan Fan, Natalie Frank, Ph.D., Roz Warren, and Randy Shingler inspire me to write distinct, original stories. Forgive me, friends, I did not mention you all. There are many more writers, such as Sherry McGuinn and Bill DuBay Jr. I could list and you should read. Heck, I feel guilty I am such a yutz I can’t seem to find the time to read them all every day.

(Note that I have tagged great writers here for you to read and not so they would read my story, unlike the annoying stories that blanket tag you to rack up unintended clicks.)

Read and prosper(Should be a Vulcan saying)[See what I did there. I used a well-know piece of content — made it mine by altering to fit my context, and didn’t regurgitate it in a way you might gag over.] Clever use of brackets, huh.

See you on the other side. And, please read, clap, and respond. Oh yeah if you made it this far you already did read. I give up on the clapping and responding hopes, it’s a lost cause.

Stay healthy and safe — there’s still a damn virus out there folks.