It’s hard to catch readers.
Some days I feel like I’m fishing in an ocean for readers. As a writer, I have made my bait — my book — and I’m looking for the right audience, or rather, fishing hole.
Problem is, I’ve only caught one fish in my entire life and that was pure luck. I don’t know anything about writing, and even less about angling. I just do what I like to do, and try to make it work.
Ah well, maybe someday I’ll land a whale. Until then I guess I’ll live. I hate seafood, anyways.
Sometimes fishing can be a hollow pursuit. Especially if the fish are insubstantial chalk-outlines in space. Mind you, I’d like to eat fish that looked like that.
They’re insubstantial, but they’re great for diets!
So, I’ve heard of spear fishing and even fish shooting, but I’m not sure how effective they are. Pirate’s probably the greatest at catching fish, but using rayguns seems like it might be pretty efficient too.
‘Tis unsporting not to catch them with your bare hands. Or use guns.
How would you catch the earth? With a giant hook, obviously, but what bait would you use? Is Mars really part of a giant angler fish? Questions like these keep me up at night.
Interstellar angling at it’s best.
How do you hunt birds if you don’t have a bow and arrow? Actually, a fishing pole might work on birds too. Whenever I learn how to walk on clouds I’ll give it a shot. At least Pirate has bait that fights back.
It’s a novel idea, at least.
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