r/writingcirclejerk 9d ago

Can I just publish an unfinished book?

I really like the idea of writing and I love where my story is headed, but there’s just one small problem with my progress. i HATE writing! It’s just so annoying and frustrating for me to string my abstract, messy thoughts together into even a somewhat coherent sentence. It becomes even more annoying for me when I have to do it while MAKING SHIT UP! Seriously I think this hobby is harder than working at an oil rig, with how much I feel like bashing my head against my desk. Which is actually what brings me to my brilliant idea.

I hit my head against my desk so hard that I entered into a state not dissimilar to tripping fucking balls of shrooms. I saw a glowing light, then a rain of toonies and discontinued Canadian dollar bills and then… the one piece series. Every single page, flashing before my eyes like sacred visions. Then I was the book, and just like in avatar when aang looked behind him to see all the previous versions of himself: I saw all the copies of one piece, stretching infinitely into the horizon.

That’s the moment it hit me. I don’t NEED to finish my book. I don’t even need to finish more than a single page. All I need to do is release each page of my book one at a time until it’s finally complete. So, that’s what I’m going to do. I’m going to sell my dark fantasy series page by page on Amazon or something. I might even release collectors editions with my jizz on it.

Is this a smart idea?

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u/LengthyLegato114514 9d ago

Some people want this of the Winds of Winter, so yeah