What Do You Want?

A Writer Asks a Simple Question

What can I do to make Jimmy Doom’s Roulette Weal more enjoyable for you?

If you’re enjoying the free subscription, please, please consider a paid subscription. No one in America should work for free, and many, many days that’s what this amounts to for me.

It hit me very hard this week that I would be in better financial shape if I was a marginally decent, even middle-of-the-pack mechanic rather than a writer who gets told he’s brilliant and creative and original and a satchel full of more amazing praise.

That praise is lovely, but I cannot feed my cat with it.

I hear “well, you should be doing it for the love of writing.”

I do love writing. I wouldn’t have committed to a second year of writing every single day if I didn’t. If you love what I’m writing based on the free stories you receive once or twice a week, there are more and better stories in the archive behind a paywall that will only cost you seven dollars and fifty cents to unlock.

If you are a paid subscriber and you love it, please let your friends know that you know a writer who is creating a new compelling story every day with a veritable library of fiction already written. A writer they can interact with, a writer they can ask questions of, a writer capable of writing custom short pieces based on their suggestions overnight. (Try that with King, Atwood, Jemisin, Palahniuk. Good luck.)

I hate asking. It’s why I haven’t done it more often. But now I’m in a position where I must ask or I simply won’t be able to continue. Please, and thank you.