but is it really? and this is where I feel like I am a kid sitting on one side of a child's seesaw with no one on the other side, but I keep trying to go up and down... One side of my mind is going - those social media platforms have been silent for a decade... the other side is going yeah...
When I self-published my first novel, a decade ago I decided to publish under this pseudonym. A decade ago when this occurred, I was the CEO of a tech company that re-occurring revenue streams from some large clients paying us more than $500K a year. The novel had a political slant to it...
Look up Dyneema on the web... there stuff is pretty impressive in regards to both protection as well as flexibility. 15x stronger than steel, better than Kevlar... a relative who is a LOE and on the tactical response team showed me his several years ago and it is not cheap - around $1200 for...
I think it is actually lower than what High School reading comprehension levels (or at least what was the comprehensive level of when I graduated in 1990 versus what ever it is at today).... I mean it seems like if you grab almost any new fiction novel written in the past 5 years and compare it...
I self published my first and only novel a decade ago... I was blessed - I wrote a fictional economic collapse thriller resonated with a certain political spectrum and an entire quickly exploding topic - Preparedness, Bug Out Bags, etc... the book hit the top 10 in paid ebooks for war fiction...
Keep multiple ideas running in separate docs... when your hitting that wall with one storyline, take a deep breath, clear your mind, and open one of the other storylines... after all, the hardest thing to do is to write a blank page.