State of the WIP, State of the Pitch

I've been ghosted again by yet another agent with two left in the queue before I go seeking someone else who may or may not appreciate my brand of fiction writing. And then I start all over again with B'Nar. I've spent all year attempting to gain help with Adapting, but only received silence instead of interest.

And I have no clue where to pitch Adapting next. The one place I had in mind is still shut for further business, with no sign of return.

I'll ask my socials, but I don't expect much in the way of feedback. People seem to like my nonsense better when I'm giving it out for free. Not so much when I'm asking questions.

As for A Devil's Tale, I'm slowing down because of the seasonal shenanigans. Trying to wrap it all up before I get to a grand total of 700 chapters and therefore have to start a sixth firkin GoogDoc. And perhaps make this "brief little thing" into a septology.

I've been writing this since 2022 and I'm kind of dreading taking up a third year with it all. It seems that at least some of 2025 will be taken up with A Devil's Tale. And when it's all done, I am knocking off from writing novels for at least an entire month.

I want to do a whole playthrough of Baldur's Gate 3 at long last.

I will, of course, be working on my daily offerings. But beyond that, I will have loads of time to play. As for writing whilst waiting... I anticipate a great volume of fanfic forthcoming. That is, after I finish the dang WIP.

If I finish the dang WIP.

It's kind of hard to have hope at the bottom end of the pitch cycle. I know I'm a decent writer, and I know I'm trying hard to be a decent person so I don't end up a problematic fave. My trouble is it seems like nobody's reading any more. My options are to turn all my hard work so far into audiobooks, or find a way to turn it into video snippets in an attempt to appeal to the Tik-Tokked attention span.

With what little I have to hand, limited skills, and whatever time I can snatch between other real-life related duties. And I still might have to overlay footage from whatver that subway coin game is.

Even then... I still need to figure out how to advertise my stuff. I'm shit at that. I have no clue. That's why I was pitching to agents in the first place.

Somewhen in January, I'm going to alter my profiles to include the phrase, "The best writer you've never heard of." See if that does anything.