Wyatt A Myshkin

@elizarose159630 The few readers I’ve had have enjoyed the work. But it’s been awful trying to find the audience… or have an audience find me.

Authors, how are your book sales going? Are you reaching the readers you hoped for, or are you struggling to get your book noticed? Share your wins and challenges, I’m interested in hearing your experience.

Both of my books Eating and Disorder as well as Millennial Psycho are now free on Kindle for the next 5 days. From the 14th to the 18th. Eating and Disorder is about an obese man that turns into a monster after being given a radioactive tapeworm by the fast food chain that made him fat. Millennial Psycho is an homage to some of Dostoevsky’s most grotesque characters - a riff on the idea that without God anything is permissible, in contrast of with Him anything is possible. Eating and Disorder is a more fun novel, Millennial Psycho is packed more densely with meditations on evil.

@derekjfiedler Excellent, thank you!! It’s now free starting the 14th through the 18th on kindle. It was written in 3rd person, but the the same type of character(s) as Notes. Or characters that might be at home in Demons.

@WyattMyshkin That sounds right in line with Dostoevsky 😅 I'll check out your book. I really enjoyed Notes from the Underground. Did you write your novel in the same fictional memoir style?

I can't shake the feeling that I am overdue for reading Dostoevsky. Besides the Brothers Karamazov, what book would you suggest?

Exactly. I felt the characters could’ve been contemporary hipsters in Brooklyn. One of the two novels I completed, The Millennial Psycho, is a bit of an homage to Notes from the Underground, but also many overlapping themes with Demons. I think I reduced price to 99 cents. If you thought you’d give it a look… I could run a promo so it’s free lol. Would just need some advance notice as to when you’d look on kindle. At this point in my writing adventure, I just want to be read. That may sound more pathetic than it actually is.

@WyattMyshkin Quite the relevant premise for our time - interesting.

Incidentally, I thought it was his funniest. The depictions of intellectuals and the murder club an insight to where godlessness can lead when there is no “up” or “down”. Unrelated but am planning to read Secret History by Donna Tartt — because it sounds like a similar premise

@WyattMyshkin Interesting. What captured you when reading Demons?

@TheBookNewb Both. But in many cases luck is more important

Success comes from luck or hard work?

@AlysssaHazel @Critical_Scribe I tipped a barista $2 by accident and immediately regretted it. I meant to click the no tip button, but the touchpad was wobbly and my hand slipped.

@Critical_Scribe The most generous people never talk about their generosity. Very whingey behavior from OP

Anytime someone says this I immediately doubt them. Not because I don’t believe someone would do this, but because the one who would wouldn’t virtue signal about it on the internet. Also learn how net worth works, please.

@SDDonovan ChatGPT. 😎

What's your go to program for writing? And would you recommend it over the rest?

I also often feel depressed when I see what types of books agents are looking for. Maybe I’m cynical but I sometimes have the impression that people think being a literary agent means wearing glasses, drinking coffee at cafes, and giving lots of totally amazing advice like “read, read, read” and “kill your darlings”.

@megha_lilly Titles to look forward to… “Stoicism and The Matrix” by Andrew Tate “Like Totally Proud and Not Prejudiced” by TikTokker 3,837,986

@JaycelAdkins I do this with the laundry.

Is that what it means?

@brecht_dp Klara and the Sun was better. I almost returned this to get a credit… or I should say, I missed the window to return and get something else.

One of the best books of the 21st century? Seriously? I'm two thirds through this book and it does nothing to me. Those who have read it, what do you think?

@paul_jkrause Yeah the idea was pretty epic. I was initially stoked to read it. Felt bait and switched, like what the trailer for Prometheus was to the movie.

@adamw144 But you also hit on its enduring power: the idea of Moby-Dick. Some of the imagery will last forever.

Read Moby-Dick. The Great American novel.

@TheBookNewb “Turn the page upside down.”

Have you ever read a sentence that genuinely changed your perspective?

@thesamparr Saw the name Tom Hanks and kept reading because I was hoping for some conspiracy theory gossip. Was very disappointed it was in connection with a WW2 documentary.

dear nerds. tom hanks has a 20 (!) part series on the history channel on ww2. its the best. eat your heart out. you're welcome, sam

As an anticlimactic PS… I decided the book sucked when the painter Rothko was brought up

I finished reading Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice. It felt very artificial though there were some nuggets of wisdom in there. Nuggets of the chicken variety more so than of gold. Seriously though, I was spoiled after reading Romantic Manifesto by Ayn Rand and Art & The Bible by Francis Schaeffer. A strange irony regarding those two books is they make almost the same argument — and they’re the best arguments for what art is I’ve ever read. For context, I once read the book everyone loves about creativity and can’t remember anything about it… so much so I wonder if I didn’t actually imagine having read it- I think it was bird by bird or some other whimsical title. The Creative Act by Rick Rubin was meh — too much faux zen. After Takuan Soho’s Unfettered Mind, the Creative Act felt fettered. Reclaiming Art and Artifice left me feeling a bit lectured and came off too pleading and self important. My biggest takeaway from that book was that I need to look up the word “modality”. Felt like Peewee Herman’s Playhouse where you’re supposed to scream when you hear the key word. TL:DR it sucked.

@AlexAndBooks_ Why settle when you can have it all.

@SObooknerd That opinion is spot on. It’s one thing to be prolific another to be a hack.

Unpopular opinion but I’m hesitant about authors who produce so many full novels a year…