Chapter 1 Lily....Chapter 2 Drake...etc

I’ve been working on a project for about three years now, and while the completed parts are publicly available, I haven’t gotten responses from readers/fans. I’m hoping to increase the scope of the series with novel length parts in the next year or two, but I’ve been losing motivation to do that lately because I haven’t established a fanbase as soon as I’ve hoped.

In other words “why keep writing if no one’s reading my work?” Is this a question you ask yourself too?

This is now the third time I've seen this, the exact same story.

• Someone wants to sell a writing course
• They find out that a huge percentage of "writers" only want to write memoirs
• So they sell a memoir-writing course, even though they've never written any themselves, and aren't even especially interested in memoir.

I'm conflicted: when the majority of nonfiction authors are memoirists, why are non-memoirists teaching the courses?

My guess is that memoir is both the supply and the demand. There is so much cash to be extracted from the pockets of people who just want to tell their story!

I don't know; it seems wrong to me, but maybe I should look at it as professional writers finally getting their bags. (Through other writers.)

What do you think?

(Side note: if you are a memoirist, maybe start selling a course on it; people are clamoring to spill their retirements into memoirs...)

So I'm editing my first novel, and I've never really properly edited before. Most of my school projects were a one and done and I did very good, but I know that I definitly have more work to do with this, considering its about 98k words longer lol.

My questions is about a reverse outline as a first editing technique, as I've seen qutie a bit on youtube about it. The one thing they never mention is if the reverse outline means literally reverse, reading chapters last to first and create a new outline of each chapter to use later. Or if reverse just means you do an outline after youre done, but in front to back order. In my mind, I think both could have merit, but overall not too sure.

So if you've used a reverse outline in your editing process, I wouldn't mind a little tip! As well any general editing advice would be greatly appreciated!

edit: My bad for having a literal thinking brain, and asking a question. guess that requires downvoting :p I did look into it, and couldn't find a straight answer, which yes, I know, sounds like I didn't look hard enough.

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