because of the lackluster sales recently. 0 sells on kindle and my kindle vella story doing nothing... i go to kdp.reports.com and see absolutely no buys. i am discouraged. i am not getting any money
so... my plan now is to not write for money. because like neil gaimon said, "don't write for money, because if you don't get the money, you don't get anything. instead, write because you'd be proud of the work's existence that only you could have made"
that will be my motivation
https://writingcooperative.com/a-dozen-quotes-by-neil-gaiman-to-help-you-write-your-novel-5d3366bde1f
3. Whenever I did something where the only reason for doing it was money, normally something would go terribly wrong. And I normally wouldn’t get the money and then I wouldn’t have anything. Whereas, whenever I did anything where what prompted my doing it was being interested, being excited, caring, thinking this is going to be fun, even if things went wrong and I didn’t get the money, I had something I was proud of.
Whenever you sit down to write something strictly to make a lot of money, you lose sight of why you got into writing in the first place, and you’re probably not going to make the kind of money you want anyway. Yes, money plays a factor in your writing life and it should, but you’ll be better off in the long run if you turn to writing for love of your characters and genre and story and world, not for the desire to make money.
so... my plan now is to not write for money. because like neil gaimon said, "don't write for money, because if you don't get the money, you don't get anything. instead, write because you'd be proud of the work's existence that only you could have made"
that will be my motivation
https://writingcooperative.com/a-dozen-quotes-by-neil-gaiman-to-help-you-write-your-novel-5d3366bde1f
3. Whenever I did something where the only reason for doing it was money, normally something would go terribly wrong. And I normally wouldn’t get the money and then I wouldn’t have anything. Whereas, whenever I did anything where what prompted my doing it was being interested, being excited, caring, thinking this is going to be fun, even if things went wrong and I didn’t get the money, I had something I was proud of.
Whenever you sit down to write something strictly to make a lot of money, you lose sight of why you got into writing in the first place, and you’re probably not going to make the kind of money you want anyway. Yes, money plays a factor in your writing life and it should, but you’ll be better off in the long run if you turn to writing for love of your characters and genre and story and world, not for the desire to make money.