ANNOUNCEMENT: I AM NOT WRITING FOR THE INTERNET

Hello all!

Yep, you saw the title right, I am not writing for the Internet. Well, the Internet crowd, the group that calls the Internet home. Also, that bozo who posted his plans in an earlier post, some 2 months ago in October? Well he’s two months too stupid, plan has changed*!

[*But no, seriously, I want your money. I’ll be upfront about it, but I got more to talk about than money.]

I am not writing for the Internet. Call it irony, hypocrisy, a paradox or insanity, but I am not writing for the Internet. It is why I am not going to have a comments section anywhere on this blog. I thought about it. I really thought about it. Here I was, there, in the past, bushy-eyed and bright-tailed—….ready and eager to make my first webpage*. I was ready to throw my hat in to the Internet ring, to be a voice shouting like everyone else. And then I thought, ‘no’. Now, my brain didn’t tell me why at the time; it does that, and I’ve learned to live with its tenuous intuitions. You know, your gut feelings immediately knowing what to do, but not bothering to tell you the why?

[*I had this big dream, a castle in the sky, where I’d design a website that actually, was supposed to be hand-drawn like you were inside the halls and rooms of a castle. There would be main menus for those who wanted shortcuts. But for those who had the patience to click extra buttons, there would be useless but decorated webpages that looked like illustrated halls; a website designed like a first-person-point-and-click-adventure game, for those who liked meandering. It’s not off the table, but that is for a time when I can afford to make monuments. Monuments require money, and safety.]

I went along with it, damn the understandable consequences and questions (‘But how will you build a crowd if you don’t let people interact? Get involved? Participate?’) and such. And I thought, no. I don’t want to deal with a comments section. I don’t want people giving me pointers or telling me how I can be better. Most of all, I don’t want to deal with fake interactions. I like interacting with people, in person, though anyone who has met me knows I just sit and listen. I don’t want to make a hotspot or an echo chamber. I want to make a small corner of the Internet that is quiet. Is that counter-productive? YES. IT IS. Because the Internet is all about noise. I want to make a quiet hole-in-the-code little spot. That includes no talking. No comments section. May my silence be damning; my voice is a whisper.

You want to know what I’m selling here? A quiet space on the Internet where you are not tempted by a comments section or hyperlinks, or advertisements that want you to **** porn-girls, or get enraged by someone’s tactlessness. It will be ME! You’ll get enraged at MY tactlessness(maybe)! Or at least total bluntness.  I’m selling you nostalgia! Where the Internet wasn’t some whirlwind of elements that try and thrust you head-first into damned political drama or a celebrity’s perversity or ‘5 Steps to being the Perfect Human’. NO! I am selling you a space on the Internet, where you can just….escape. No comments, no ads. Just, a place, to quietly read quirky articles and laugh at some fool on the Internet who will never know you are there (except by monetary donations). A place away from the Internet, but on the Internet. Uh. A cooling-off room. Because, because, the world has gone to such hell that you need to sell privacy, to have privacy, and escape for a moment*.

[*Or you could just drop the Internet and tele-communications technology for several hours of the day, but that requires breaking a legitimate addiction; clicking buttons and seeing new articles releases dopamine hits. So, you know, let be your…benevolent dealer? I mean, I’m not exactly helping you with an Internet addiction—that’s on you to fix. Just, stop by. Say hello. Share a blunt(s)ness.]

I want to be paid for writing like a lunatic and sounding like a lunatic when I write. I don’t want pity money or boy’s club money, I want to be paid for my skill! First for here, at this variety show blog, and then being paid for writing serialized novels that I publish chapter-by-chapter! You want to know my other irony, hypocrisy, a paradox or/and insanity? I’m also doing this to self-publish at exorbitant rates and keep all the money (mostly). By God, if someone can have a Patreon™ or SubscribeStar™ and their whole gimmick, their whole content library is just them posting journalism pages? Fine! I’ll do the same with a whole damn book. Sell it 19th-century style, chapter-by-chapter, to keep the fanatics fans wanting more, enslaved addicted eagerly awaiting the next episode!

Plus, it is the freakin’ Internet, plagiarism is (crtl+A , crtl+C, crtl+V) three actions on a keyboard. So no, I’m not going to post my whole book, on the Internet. One chapter a week! And I’m not going through a publishing house or agent, because I don’t trust them. Yes, it has also gotten so bad that I would rather risk freak accidents than trust the people in ‘the system’. No, the people in the Entertainment Industry. Nor do I want to go onto Scribbed.com or any ebook selling site, because they make most of their money from selling porn-novels! And, worst of all, I’d have to be under the tyrannical rule of their guidelines. Their way of having things done.

I am deliberately doing the most obtuse thing, of not writing for the Internet, to not only write quirky articles but to self-publish whole novels on the strangest damn platform to do so. And you know what? I believe this will work.

I believe this will work because it is so out of left field, that it is a real-life plan that’s too crazy to work.

SO! For the open record, my plan is have enough people here, get monetized on SubscribeStar.com (my name being Dair Productions, the icon is pencil-drawn 3 stars with swirly banners drawn under them).

I’ll give regular announcements through my Facebook and by my crudely-Photoshopped ‘advertisements’ that is just a cartoonish smudging of my blog’s homepage. You can expect regular enough thumbnails like that.

HOWEVER! Be warned, that I DON’T text or Direct-Message people; I think that is just too weird and fake-personal. I’ll email at most but only at request. Most of my main announcements will be on my Facebook page. I understand the value of money, it’s why I’m going through a trusted 3rd-party like SubscribeStar, with donations, so that you can pull out if you wish. Again, I want to be paid for my skill and entertainment; this is the tip-jar. I won’t beg or ask for more than I need. This is the only channel I’ll be asking you for money. Thank you.

More to follow!