Been writing wannabe professional for a bit now and the short story fiction I’ve been working on (3+ volumes) could probs be classified as weird. (Not a forced weird, just happens)<p>That said, definitely haven’t made any financial gains in the world of writing, and “optimizing” for weird, based on firsthand experience , doesn’t quite ring as sage advice<p>If you want to “make it as a writer,” and unless you’re kinda hardcore about it, it may be a better idea to start a podcast / real-time capture your journey as a writer (while writing.)<p>Printed text (books) requires work to access and usually doesn’t do a great job marketing itself / has “low-virality.”<p>Reading is work; watching / listening is easy, maybe even relaxing.<p>Beyond your average interview podcast, pursuing a career as a writer & sharing that work via podcast is a direction I personally haven’t yet seen explored at length
>Start a website under your own name and your own URL. Not on Medium or Substack but on your own domain. You can call the blog part something fancy but the URL is your name.<p>It sounds like he's talking about James Howard Kunstler.