What is to be Done? On the Question of Author Solidarity and the Struggle Against Readership Hegemony and the Tyranny of the Algorithm

[ElijahRyne]

The history of all hitherto existing web novel platforms is the history of struggles within the Author class!

Each era in the development of web novel readership was accompanied by the advancement of that class. The readership, during its rule of scarce 10 years, has demanded more colossal and massive stories than all preceding books together.
But now, the weapons with which the Reader class felled the old publishers to the ground are turned against that class itself!
Hitherto, every form of web novel platform has been based on antagonism within the Author class. In the Reader forum, every day I see Authors fighting like dogs over scraps of viewership. What the Reader class relies on, above all, is the algorithm. Therefore, Authors, there is nothing to be gained through your infighting!

Authors of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your reader count!

Nice reference, but without education on the forms of organization it is just that. If we want author solidarity, we must be in and/or create writing groups that, for example, require its members to share a random story from another member. While the group comes together to create advice, help each other in plotting and editing, and creating a craft guide. Of course our writers groups can do both more and less than this, for example a book club for craft books, where members vote on a book to aimed at authors and then analyze and use the advice in it, every week or so. Perhaps, a group of authors and other artists who work together on artistic projects. We could come together to create a group of writers that do not, for example, use LLM’s to rewrite or write their stories, and create a community organization that promotes and helps the group. The forms of organization are many, we just need to organize else the reading class tramples on us and our dignity.

 

[Author_Riceball]

The history of all hitherto existing web novel platforms is the history of struggles within the Author class!

Each era in the development of web novel readership was accompanied by the advancement of that class. The readership, during its rule of scarce 10 years, has demanded more colossal and massive stories than all preceding books together.
But now, the weapons with which the Reader class felled the old publishers to the ground are turned against that class itself!
Hitherto, every form of web novel platform has been based on antagonism within the Author class. In the Reader forum, every day I see Authors fighting like dogs over scraps of viewership. What the Reader class relies on, above all, is the algorithm. Therefore, Authors, there is nothing to be gained through your infighting!

Authors of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your reader count!

larp ass fucking title

 

[Gray_Mann]

So I'll make an educated guess and assume this isn't where I get my fishing license renewed?

 

[Anonjohn20]

My doctor said it was okay to post here so stop bullying me. It's against the rules in my ward so it's against the rules here.

Threaten them with an apple and they'll say whatever you want.