Comments on: List of Superpowers

By: Ragged Boy

Ragged Boy — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 03:11:48 +0000

Me and my friends go crazy everyday, ask anyone that knows me well, I’ll crack up on almost everything. A boy fell of his bike earlier today, sure he got hurt, but boy was it funny.

Then again, my sense of humor is pretty dark.

By: B. Mac

B. Mac — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 03:03:53 +0000

I’d say we’re pretty funny. The problem is that you don’t give a damn. No one can help you write unless you care.

By: Dallas

Dallas — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 02:40:24 +0000

Sigh,
some people and their alck of humor

By: B. Mac

B. Mac — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:35:38 +0000

Yeah, crazy spelling is very intrusive. I wouldn’t recommend throwing out basic mechanics without a good reason. Otherwise, flagrant mechanical problems will send readers a strong message that the author doesn’t know how to write.

Even online, a basic grasp of mechanics will help an author (or commenter) come across as credible. Smooth grammar will make writing feel smarter.

By: The ReTARDISed Whovian

The ReTARDISed Whovian — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 07:06:26 +0000

I think it would be far simpler to write in correct English than to think of clever ways of misspelling. It took me about two seconds to realize that “beeyootee” meant “beauty”. Also, people often misspell to save time, but “beeyootee” is three letters longer than “beauty”, so there isn’t much of a benefit in writing that way.

By: B. Mac

B. Mac — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 06:22:01 +0000

Kind of. Jacob and Davis are more involved in the website than the novel and comic book. Just as well, I suppose. At $80-160 a page for a comic book script, there isn’t enough to split three ways. I suppose that’s why so few comic book series have 3 writers.

By: Ragged Boy

Ragged Boy — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 02:38:44 +0000

At least you guys have a team to work with.

By: B. Mac

B. Mac — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:45:50 +0000

I’m very excited for break as well. On the business side of things, we’re working on a comic script, a nonfiction manuscript, a grant proposal, storyboards for 5 comic book pages and designing wedding invitations. If I can get any 3 of those done, I’ll be pleased.

By: B. Mac

B. Mac — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:31:37 +0000

“so there will be a spelling and grammer check every once in a damned while.
but im not gunna waste my time doin it for the internets lol.”

Fair enough. But I doubt there’s anyone that wants to waste their time trying to decipher what you wrote. If you don’t care, why should anyone else?

By: Ragged Boy

Ragged Boy — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:19:55 +0000

Slow day, today. Tomorrow is the last day of school before winter break. Yay!!!

Now I can focus on my comic script.

By: Cadet Davis

Cadet Davis — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:17:41 +0000

“If Eye wanzta speh-hell thingz Wrng Den Eye Dam Well Will.” Yeah, but it’s painful to read and I think comments like these actually detract from our site’s quality.

By: Ragged Boy

Ragged Boy — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:12:39 +0000

Calm down, although this is English and you can sound it out, I still found it very hard to read(Deh Beeyootee of Inglish? what?), the purposely or unpurposely made, comment you posted.

Wait, I’m confused if you post your pieces from Word how come they aren’t already corrected. Why don’t you just write out your comments in word and then paste them here. That would save you and us some trouble.

By: Dallas

Dallas — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:53:00 +0000

Dis iznt ah publisherz offiss.
If Eye wanzta speh-hell thingz Wrng Den Eye Dam Well Will.

Grammer is important, seeing as how
‘I helped my uncle jack off a cow.’
and
‘I helped my uncle Jack, off a cow.’
Mean two compleatly differnt things.

Also this one
‘Women with out her man is nothing.’
and
‘Women: Without her, Man is nothing.’

But im writing this in word
so there will be a spelling and grammer check every once in a damned while.
but im not gunna waste my time doin it for the internets lol.

Deh Beeyootee of Inglish Iz Dat Yoo Can Sownd Thingz Owt.
And Eevin If Yoo Dontuh, Yoo Can StIlL FiGuRe OuT wHaT eye Am Zaying.

By: Jacob

Jacob — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:12:01 +0000

I don’t know how we got to to this tangent, but another consideration is how long it takes you to write a book. Presumably, if you were able to write two or three books a year instead of just one, it would be less important for you to sell many copies of each book. Prolificness pays!

Also, I wouldn’t recommend putting too much faith in hit-counts as a measure of quality. There are a lot of factors that don’t have anything to do with the quality of the writing. For example, the site’s visual design, the quality of the sidebar and organizational scheme, and your search engine optimization will influence how many visitors you get but not how good your writing is. I also wouldn’t recommend worrying too much about whether you have “enough” hits to justify going full-time. It probably wouldn’t surprise you to know that many authors have gone full-time without any hits!

The best indicator of your ability to go full-time, I think, is how much money you have previously made with your writing. If the amount of money you’ve made with your writing has only been negligible, then I think it would probably be rash to assume that you have the ability to feed yourself and make rent. From what I understand, writing is a risky career choice and not everyone will make it. Economically speaking, it’s a tough market because so many people are qualified to write and the Internet has made free writing widely available. (Damn bloggers! If it weren’t for superhero writing-advice blogs, people would have to buy superhero writing guidebooks).

By: B. Mac

B. Mac — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:16:13 +0000

“Can you get 100 people a day to read your writing?” Back in junior high school, I was thrilled to get 7 readers a day at my crappy Xanga blog, long since deleted. Heh heh.

Depending on what your goals are, 100 people a day might not be the right target. If you’re thinking about making a full-time living at writing (a big if– many writers have day jobs), ideally your writing has a larger audience. If I had to offer a rule of thumb, I’d say that most authors will convert between one and three percent of their free readers to paid readers. So, if you have 100 unique visitors per day, I’d project 1-3 sales a day. That’s about 750 copies in a year, which is not nearly enough to live on. Depending on where you live, I think you’d need to sell at least 15,000 copies per year to think about full-time. If my 1-3% rate is correct, that would mean you’d need between half a million and a million and a half unique hits per year, or 1350-5000 per day.

This assumes that you’re only selling online from your website, but work with me here. Even if we were to factor in bookstore and Amazon sales, you’d probably still need more than 100 people a day.