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I'm not dead!
Jul. 8th, 2013 06:31 pmI've just been otherwise occupied, mostly with depression, but no-one wants to hear about that.
Something else I've been doing is toying with serial literature. Sophie found this thing called JukePop Serials, which seems dodgy as fuck, in that really weird way where you can't find the thing that's wrong. Basically, you write serial fiction, you submit it to them, people read your fiction for free, and if enough people read it, you get paid.
The money apparently comes from nowhere. I've asked them in an email how they generate revenue, and all I got in response was that the money comes from JukePop, which didn't even come close to answering my question. I spent a few months digging through everything I can find on this website, and I've not found a single word of caution. Apparently writers retain full rights of their novel, and are free to submit and post it elsewhere (with a few people having actually gone on to do just that, it seems). They only pay the thirty highest-rated stories each month (I am unclear if this is overall rated, or rated for the month. If it's the first, then new writers haven't a chance, so I'm hoping it's the second one), and twice-yearly they pay the highest-rated story something like $500.
I've decided to give this thing a try. I'm not going to pay any bills on it, but I really want to know how it works. I submitted something last night, and it's not like submitting to deviantART or FFN or anything. There's a legitimate submission process, so it'll be at least another month until I hear anything back, probably.
So in the meantime, I've been poking around their catalogue, thinking I'll see what else they've published. And while most of it is well-written, it's nothing I want to read. It's all ghosts and zombies and urban fantasy, which are things I'm rather bored with right now. On the other hand, I'll have cornered the market on high fantasy if I'm accepted. Their submission guidelines say they accept it, but no-one's writing it over there. Which seems weird, because you'd think the Hobbit would be bringing it back into style. Huh.
I'll keep updating on this thing, because it's really weird, and I really want to find where the thing that's wrong is.
Something else I've been doing is toying with serial literature. Sophie found this thing called JukePop Serials, which seems dodgy as fuck, in that really weird way where you can't find the thing that's wrong. Basically, you write serial fiction, you submit it to them, people read your fiction for free, and if enough people read it, you get paid.
The money apparently comes from nowhere. I've asked them in an email how they generate revenue, and all I got in response was that the money comes from JukePop, which didn't even come close to answering my question. I spent a few months digging through everything I can find on this website, and I've not found a single word of caution. Apparently writers retain full rights of their novel, and are free to submit and post it elsewhere (with a few people having actually gone on to do just that, it seems). They only pay the thirty highest-rated stories each month (I am unclear if this is overall rated, or rated for the month. If it's the first, then new writers haven't a chance, so I'm hoping it's the second one), and twice-yearly they pay the highest-rated story something like $500.
I've decided to give this thing a try. I'm not going to pay any bills on it, but I really want to know how it works. I submitted something last night, and it's not like submitting to deviantART or FFN or anything. There's a legitimate submission process, so it'll be at least another month until I hear anything back, probably.
So in the meantime, I've been poking around their catalogue, thinking I'll see what else they've published. And while most of it is well-written, it's nothing I want to read. It's all ghosts and zombies and urban fantasy, which are things I'm rather bored with right now. On the other hand, I'll have cornered the market on high fantasy if I'm accepted. Their submission guidelines say they accept it, but no-one's writing it over there. Which seems weird, because you'd think the Hobbit would be bringing it back into style. Huh.
I'll keep updating on this thing, because it's really weird, and I really want to find where the thing that's wrong is.
