I'm yet to do my first one if this post dosen't count, so I'm learning here.
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Plenty of writers and producers of content have written lots of content about their lives masked as fictional entertainment. If you wrote about all the crazy stuff you've experienced and anyone calls you on it ... you can just say it was all made up. If anyone wants to prove its true, they are basically revealing their own lives themselves.
Fictionalizing real life experience also take a certain level of confidence to the point of arrogance. I'm Indigenous in Canada and some of the most popular individuals in Native writing and producing are also the ones who are the most full of themselves. There is also a real big problem with Pretendians (non-Indigenous people masquerading as full blooded Indigenous people). At one point, even with all the obvious fakery and lies ... all it takes is a dogged determination to just keep telling the same story over and over again. The republicans and Tr*mp are famous examples of that mentality.
I know a few writers and journalists and they all seem to fall into two categories in my experience. They are either good natured, good willed and honest people who just want to tell stories, share stories and hold a big giant mirror for the world to see it self. Or they are individuals that just see the industry as just another arena to manipulate people and popularity in order to make a bit of money.
And from what I've seen since I've been on Lemmy over the past year ... you're one of the good natured kind and instead of making a fortune manipulating the world, you spend a bit of energy here to give us a laugh and make our corner of the world a little bit better.
I appreciate the compliment. I've actually worked as a writer, but it's all short-form stuff or scripts. Now it has all been humor, so it's in the right area, but I don't know that I have a whole book in me to be honest.
Edit: I should say that maybe one day I will. My mom started writing novels in her mid-70s and she's now on novel number 6 at 82 and they get decent reviews and sell relatively well. Super dark shit though, not comedy.
I just watched this monstrosity the other day ... four freaking hours because we got hooked on the first two episodes, lost faith in the third and hoped for the fourth but got severely disappointed.
The Signal - a netflix original
After watching it, I really wondered how and why it could have been so bad and then I noticed a few reviewers suggesting that it was most likely something slapped together using AI tools and text prompts ... and when I thought about what I saw, what I heard, the lack of common logic and sense that was in the film and the atrocious voice over ending ... it really made a lot of sense that this was something a few no name writers had created with AI, and then just lost it and wrapped it up with an AI text prompt.
If they can produce content like this for millions ... I'm sure you could produce something worthwhile yourself.
It's another thing I learned about writers, especially ones with a lot of potential ... they lack confidence in their work. I wouldn't wait until I was 70 like your mom (although I thoroughly enjoy the idea that she's doing it) ... I'd just go out there and write something ... it certainly wouldn't be any worse that a lot of million dollar productions being produced today.
If it means anything, I'm a fan of your work already.
It's more of a stamina thing. I've tried writing a book before and I just run out of steam after a while. I think it comes from doing standup for years. Make the material efficient, get to the punchline quickly so you don't lose the audience. It's sort of ruined me for long-form writing.
But again, I appreciate the compliment, thank you.