I have a tongue-in-cheek essay about my recent study of Islam. The title will give an idea. ISLAM:THE STRAIGHT DOPE, A Self-styled Expert Explains All. Can someone suggest how I might give it some exposure? It's fairly long: 5200 words but quite funny, easy to read, very irreverent
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Lesson 1: Never tell your potential audience that something is quite funny or easy to read or very irreverent. Let them tell you how they perceived your work. See, a standup routine may murder the audience in Jockstrap, Wisconsin but fall flat in Bloody Boots Butte, Montana. Oh, and do yourself a favor and schedule a veryectomy at the earliest opportunity.
So, here's what I suggest: Give us a randomly chosen 200+/- word segment out of your essay so we can determine for ourselves how to respond to the work and the question. Bear in mind that opinions and suggestions will vary.
You might also want to do this in the writer's group, rather than in the general forum.
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July 8, 2018
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Good idea! I’ll try the excerpt thing soon as I figure out how. BTW I used ‘funny’ only to imply it’s not mean-spirited, nasty, derogatory or the like. Thanks for the tip on eliminating useless adjectives. I try very hard to avoid those and normally succeed quite well!
@Bob_Heitzman -- LOL
"I try to avoid those and normally succeed."
The excerpt is easy. Just copy a section you think is representative of the work, then paste it in a comment here. After pasting it, you will most likely have to reformat it so that paragraph breaks are apparent. That too is easy.
"I try very hard to avoid those and normally succeed quite well!"
That line was meant as a joke.
(By the way I think 'very' and 'quite' are adverbs, not adjectives. Sorry for the slip.)
I posted a couple of excerpts as you suggested, then went on and posted the whole thing. You're right. It did sort of mess up the formatting. The worst thing though is that all the pictures that are supposed to go with the text get left out. Any ideas how that could be corrected? The pictures, in my estimation, break up the 'wall of words' and make the essay more inviting to read.
I just looked at the post that supposedly had my whole essay. Only about the first half got through. I guess the whole thing was a little too big for the clipboard. Back to the drawing board! I'm still bummed that the pictures get left out.
@Bob_Heitzman -- I got the joke, hence the LOL.
Essays are by nature a wall of words, just as any fiction story is. People have been reading them for a long time without illustrations. You can insert the pictures in the order they appear with the Add Photo function. You have a maximum of 5 that you can add. Provide a <break note> in the text to indicate which photo belongs there.
@Bob_Heitzman -- No, man, not the whole thing. Highlight the section you want to copy, between 200 and 400 words, copy just the highlighted section and paste that into a comment.
You can see i’m new at this. Interpreted LOL as “lots of love”. One quick mental WTF on my part and forgot all about it.
I did post one short excerpt as you suggested. It’s headed by THE MIDNIGHTJOURNEY. Has no images so she’d be OK. Thanks for bearing with me. Will try an excerpt w pix soon. As Charlie Brown says, “My head hurts”, or in Tweet talk: TMI. (For the moment)
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